Luda Mae Hewitt
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| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre character | |
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| Luda Mae Hewitt | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race | Caucasian |
| Location | Texas |
| Enemies | Everyone but her family in general, but particuarly the types of teenagers who were cruel to her son. |
| Portrayed by: | Marietta Marich |
Luda Mae Hewitt was a character from the 2003 remake of the 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. She is portrayed by Marietta Marich.
Luda Mae Hewitt is the matriatch of the Hewitt family and the mother of Sheriff Hoyt. She found the young baby that would later become Leatherface abandoned in a dumpster, and took him in to raise him, naming him Thomas.
Luda Mae runs a local butcher shop in Texas and is the first member of Leatherface's family that the teenagers meet in the first film. Unlike in the original 1974 film, in which Leatherface's family was somewhat abusive to him, Luda Mae has a fierce love for him. Part of her hatred towards the teenagers is due to the abuse that her deformed, mentally retarded son suffered as a child at the hands of bullies.
On the commentary for the DVD release the writers revealed a cut plotline that, prior to the prequel's continuity, involved Leatherface's abusive father locking him in a woodshack for three years. Once her husband died, Luda Mae vowed that she had stood by long enough and decided to look after her son and take responsibility for his shortcomings.
In the prequel, she, with the rest of the Hewitt family, are discovered to be cannibals, something that was only implied in the first film.
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series |
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| Original series |
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 • Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III • Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation |
| Remake series |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning |
| Characters |
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Leatherface • Sally Hardesty • Drayton Sawyer • Edward Sawyer • Chop Top • Sheriff Hoyt • Luda Mae Hewitt • Old Monty |
