The sweet, always nursing, always attentive, petting Peg, played by Dianne Weist is one of the most memorable characters from the early movies of Johnny Depp. Dianne Weist, with her experience, has a lot more Leading Lady quality, in fact, than Johnny´s love interest at the time Winona Ryder. And you can never forget, how she sets things in motion in this movie with her "I think you better come HOME with me!"

Peg Boggs was the Mother Hen for Edward Scissorhands, a suburb housewife and Avon representative with a mission. She wanted to do good so desperately and never hesitated, but her good intentions were not met with equal respect from the suburb folks. After losing interest to Edward and then starting to despise him, the folks turned against the Boggs family by not coming to their annual Christmas party. Peg didn´t want to lose hope, but she knew, and she was not just dissapointed - she was hurt, broken. We do often forget that on the side of Edward´s own drama - Peg suffered a lot. Mothers always worry. When Edward left, the other housewives got rid of a freak, but Peg lost a lot more. She lost her illusions she could make a difference, that she had done the right thing. She felt guilty, ashamed, sorry. Till the last moment she tries to protect Edward, midlen the townfolks´anger at him, but no one listens to her, the daily nuisance of an Avon Lady like she is to them. Edward and Peg (and the daughter Kim, mentally clearly a copy of her mom not the practical, emotionally blindfolded father) are surprisingly similar, neither really have a place in that shallow, supersticious, unjustful place.

© Redfox, Tallinn 2006