“As a model, I worked a lot because of my broad shoulders,” Rubin recalls, “and they worked for Chuck Russell and the Taryn White role too.” Her shoulder shapeliness evolved from a youth world full of competitive swimming, which Rubin carried into adulthood, instructing others on pool prowess.Īn acting classmate of another fellow who’d use the first Elm Street flick to spring to acting stardom, a guy named Johnny Depp, Rubin, like the rest of America film-goers, had heard of the first two flicks’ success, but hadn’t checked into them.ĭrugs eventually find a way to damage even the loveliest both inside and out, as we saw in Taryn’s pained, tired look through the first part of NOES 3. One of so many taken by Rubin’s “model-inity” just happened to be the fellow who’d helped script the flick (along with Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner, and Frank Darabont) and was stepping behind the camera. From those heights in a profession (at least, in the print sense) where physical beauty is about everything, to seeing her as Taryn and the effects – even in acting - of rampant drug use, taught millions a tough lesson. While the Nightmare On Elm Street series, and horror movies in general, are about the last cinematic offering from which audiences would ever expect to find a special kind of inspiration, Taryn White came to represent a new wave of the “Just Say No” movement sweeping across America at the time.īy Dream Warriors’ 1987 release, many fans far from the horror realm had already seen Jennifer Rubin in a very different context she’d been modeling all over the world.