Jane Campion says Holly Hunter's character should have died at the end of The Piano.
Holly Hunter's character should have died at the end of The Piano, director Jane Campion has revealed.
In an interview with Britain's Radio Times, the New Zealand Oscar-winning writer and director of the 1993 film says she didn't have "the nerve" at the time to allow Hunter's mute character, Ada
McGrath, to drown.
At the end of the film, which made US$40 million at the box office, Ada allows herself to be dragged underwater by a rope tied to her piano.
But she changes her mind and fights her way back to the surface, before appearing to go on to live a happier life.
Campion, who won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for the film, said if she was to film it again she would allow the character to drown.
