Kathleen Turner’s New Book Dishes Hollywood Secrets
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Kathleen Turner reflects on her glory days back in the 80s when she was truly A-list.
However, her life wasn’t as golden as you would think. Turner writes about her crazy life in Hollywood and spills the beans on many top celebrities in her new book, Send Yourself Roses.
She pulls no punches and even names names.
She mocks Nicholas Cage’s ‘fake teeth’, claims Anthony Perkins was a raging drug addict on set, and describes Burt Reynolds as being a chauvinistic pig. This is a long read, but most definitely a juicy one with sex, drugs and massive egos!
Delish! Enjoy..
On the first day of filming on my first-ever movie, the director had a little surprise for me.
We were going to start with a sex scene in which my co-star William Hurt and I were stark naked. I didn’t have that much sexual experience - and, at that stage, I hadn’t even met the film crew.
So, wearing just a bathrobe, I launched into introductions: “Hi, I’m Kathleen. You’re the camera operator? Oh, that’s wonderful. Oh, you’re the focus puller? Uh-huh. Props? Nice.”
Handshakes all round. Then Bill Hurt and I stripped naked in front of all these people we’d just met and started filming this graphic sex scene.
Afterwards, I felt terribly vulnerable and shaken.
When we made Body Heat in 1980, Bill and I knew that it would be ground-breaking in its realistic treatment of sexuality. In fact, the first time I read it, I thought it might even be dismissed as sensationalist.
The most famous scene is when Bill smashes his way through the window of a house and grabs my character, Matty, with a sense of longing so fierce it’s shocking. As I recall, we went right down on the floor there in the hallway.
Continue reading after the cut!
