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Fatal attraction was THE Hit de Thriller Massif de 1987. He features Michael Douglas As a Dan Gallagher lawyer, who has a badly advised appointment with the editor Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) then faces her anger when she becomes determined to destroy her life and her marriage to her wife Beth ( Anne Archer ). THE Adrian Lyne The film has made more than $ 156 million worldwide and spent eight weeks at No. 1. In addition to being big with the public, Fatal attraction was nominated for six Oscars, including the best film. He also generated memes before there was a word for them, with images of a knife closure becoming emblematic and the expression "rabbit boiler" joining the lexicon.

However, Fatal attraction It was apparently a bit a nightmare behind the scenes too. A potential director wanted to change the leading man, while the producers did not think they would find a star who was ready to play the Alex increasingly disturbed. And even after these problems were solved, there were still challenges, in particular by withdrawing the good performance of the child's actor by playing Dan and Beth, Ellen, in one of the culminating final scenes from the film. Read the rest to find out what is big Ellen Latzen had to say on Douglas shouting on the set and how he caught up.

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After seeing the 1980 short film Derivation , written and produced by Fatal attraction scriptwriter James Dearden , producer Sherry Lansing I became determined to make a feature film version and was quickly attached to Douglas to play Dan. However, she found it difficult to find anyone who was disposed to undertake the project. "The film was rejected twice by all the studios, "" she said The New York Times For An oral history 2017 of Fatal attraction . "They said:" A guy who deceives his wife for no reason! ""

Director Brian de Palma , which came out of Scarpace And Double bodily , was involved at one point, but he wanted to do Fatal attraction More a horror film than a thriller. According to Lansing, he also rejected Douglas as head. "He said," I can't make the film with Michael. He is unfriendly. It is therefore either him or me "", recalls the producer.

After Palma left the project, Flash dance And 9 1/2 weeks The Lyne filmmaker signed. "I really felt that it was potentially something that would make people speak," he told Time .

But finding an actor of name to play a other psychotic "woman" turned out to be just as difficult as locking a director. "We were refused by almost all actresses," said Lansing Time . "" Barbara Hershey was seriously considered and wanted to do it, but she was not available. ""

In the meantime, as Close -up Weekly entertainment In 2017, she was more than ready to throw her hat into the ring after reading the script "in one session". However, Fatal attraction The director and producer feared that the actor, who was known for more girls at the entrance, would not be an adjustment. "She had done The world according to Garp And always played with beautiful characters, "said Lyne to Time . "So I was not sure she was right."

"Producer Sherry Lansing told me about five years ago that they were so convinced that I was wrong for Alex that they did not even want to be in the room when I auditioned," said Close EW On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the film. "They said," Well, can she be sexy? "And I thought:" Well, you know, yes! ""

As Douglas explained to Time , he did not have much faith that Close was the co-star that they were not looking for either. "We were doing a great favor to Glenn's agent, letting her read with me," he said. "I don't think we have great hopes - she is a wonderful actress, but she has always projected a puritanic vision."

Obviously, Close nailed the hearing and won the role. But his nerves were obvious at the start of filming. "I just think it is the responsibility of an actor to make the actress comfortable," said Douglas about her efforts to calm her down. "It is mainly always a male whole."

But his well -intentioned tactic turned against him. "I was intimidated by Michael because he was so sweet and Hollywood Time . "I don't want to say that negatively. He would tell me these off -color jokes, and half of them that I wouldn't get. He was trying to bring me back to me, but that didn't make me nervous."

Fatal attraction was the first actor's first credit for Latzen, six years old, although it is even better known for Play Ruby Sue In 1989 National Lampoon Christmas holidays . One of the most important scenes of the young actor occurs when Dan and Beth have it on the case while Alex's behavior intensified at a terrifying point. Ellen is supposed to melt in tears while her parents are fighting, but Latzen had trouble crying.

Douglas took on him to inspire tears. Latzen remembered the moment of Time By saying: "I stood there with Uni, my own plush animal. Michael came to me and said to me:" Look at this stupid unicorn. I'll throw it into the garbage. "Looking at the scene, you can see that I try very much to retaliate the tears. Finally, he cried on me. I couldn't hold it back."

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As Latzen recalled, as soon as the catch was made, Douglas dropped the act. "Immediately, Michael ran towards me and held me, and said to me:" I'm really sorry. "It was quite intense," she said.

Thirty years later, Douglas admitted that he "felt pretty guilty" of having frightened Latzen at Time . "But you have to do what you have to do", Wall Street Star added.

After Fatal attraction , Latzen continued to act for a while. In addition to its stage flight performance in Christmas holidays , she appeared in television shows of which Family ties ,, The equalizer , and a special ABC parascolire. As she explained to HuffPost, She took a break from the company When she went to the boarding school and came to the conclusion after graduating that she was not interested in returning. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It would have been a lot of effort to go back, and I was not really ready to do it," she said in 2015. "And even if I liked playing and we were passionate at that time- There, at that time, I really wanted to be another person and I decided to leave. "

Now 42, the former star child is active on social networks And had documented her pregnancy on her blog, Road to mom . At the end of April, she welcomed her first child, A named girl Charlotte .