Kim Basinger said she felt manipulated by Mickey Rourke and the director "9 1/2 weeks"
"After the end of this film, I didn't want to see anyone I had never seen on this set," she said.
Before appearing as intrepid journalist Vicki Vale in the 1989 Batman And win an Oscar for playing an attractive female fatal in 1997 L.A. Confidential ,, Kim Basinger was best known for having played in the erotic drama lurid 1986 9 ½ weeks , co-star Mickey Rourke and produced by Adrian Lyne ( Flash dance ,, Fatal attraction ).
But although the film, which Bombed in the United States But it was a success abroad, helped to transform Basinger into a famous name, which made him far from a completely positive experience for the actor. Continue to read to find out why she found by working 9 1/2 weeks Trauma, even blaming him for problems in his real marriage, and how Rourke and Lyne admitted to manipulate her deliberately to give the performance they wanted.
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Basinger has left his screen test in tears.
As described by the cinema historian Karina Longworth on the podcast You have to remember that ,, 9 ½ weeks tells "the story of what is initially a consensual relationship, in which the line between the game and the desired negotiated abuses disappear, until the woman becomes the prisoner of the man". The film follows New Yorkers Elizabeth (Basinger), an employee of the gallery, and John (Rourke), a banker of Wall Street, while they are involved in an intense love story that becomes more dangerous and damaging gradually. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
First -plan mixers, including Kathleen Turner ,, Isabella Rossellini , And Teri Garr were All considered for the role of Elizabeth , according to The telegraph . But it was the newcomer of Basinger, then better known for having played under the name of Bond Girl Domino Petachi opposite Sean Connery In 1983 Never say never , who drew Lyne's attention after a screen test that she described later as humiliating.
The hearing required him "Act like a crawling prostitute for money in an elaborate sexual game", according to a contemporary article in The New York Times . Basinger left the meeting crying and told her agent that she would never make the film. However, she finally gave in after Lyne and Rourke sent her two dozen roses.
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Actors were prohibited from seeing themselves without a present Lyne.
From the start, Lyne directed with a heavy hand, controlling the interactions of the actors on the screen and the extinguished. They were prohibited to see each other before filming with the intention that they would develop a "continuous intimacy" during his production schedule of 10 weeks - means imitating the 9 and a half years of the film, as he said The New York Times .
"I didn't want there to be a Easy intimacy between them ," he said Rolling stone . "There must have been elements of fear and danger. Even while we were turning, I tried to separate them so that there is always this aspect of chance when they gathered."
Lyne relied on the "instinctive" reactions of Basinger.
Lyne has also used unusual techniques on the set. Rather than talking about instructions aloud, he would distance Rourke to whisper him when he thought that the scenes did not work. It was an attempt at engineering the desired response of Basinger, which he described as "an instinctive actress". "You couldn't do that with everyone," he said The New York Times . "Kim is a bit like a child. He is an innocent. It is part of his call."
Lyne seemed to count on the provocation of Basinger, who, according to him, did not act at all. "She was this woman for 10 weeks," he said. "She is not an intellectual. She does not read books. She does not really act, she reacts. And she had to climb the depths of this film."
For his part, Basinger said that her vision of her did not describe her at all. "It was his interpretation," she said. "Another director would act differently. To tell the truth, I did not deliberately allow myself to see all the games played to take this photo. I do not know why, if he wanted an emotion, he went to Mickey and not to Me."
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The actors had a physical confrontation during the filming of a crucial scene.
A scene offers a notable example of the Lyne method. The characters come to the edge of a suicide pact in which only the character of Rourke knows that the pills they take are sugar pills. During the shooting, Lyne found that Basinger's appearance was too composed for the required emotional intensity. He took Rourke aside and told him that Elizabeth needed to appear more "down" The New York Times . Rourke held the Basinger's arm closely, refusing to let go until she shouts and even strikes him. He answered by slapping her back. After this emotional exchange, Basinger cried hysterically and Lyne finally proceeded to the stage.
Basinger said The New York Times That the emotional requirements of the scene have wreaked havoc on his personal life: "Mickey pushed me - I hated him sometimes, I confused myself. I did not know who I was after a while. My husband and me had a bad weather during this film. "(She then the husband Ron Snyder-Britton divorced three years later.)
The shooting of literally marked left Basinger.
The shooting had a physical and emotional impact on Basinger. Recalling a rainy sex scene filmed on a Manhattan staircase, Basinger has shown Rolling stone A brand on her forearm of an injury she suffered on the set. "It was horrible, against this brick where there were rusty things on my back. I still have a scar," she revealed in 1986.
"Once this film was finished, I didn't want to see anyone I had never seen on this set," she continued. "If I met the guy who brought the coffee, I was going to kill him." At the time, it understood Rourke, that she said that she had not seen anymore and "never really learned". The two would finally meet 26 years later for the 2012 action drama Black November .
Lyne then complained of having to use an intimacy coordinator.
As for Lyne, he continued to see success with films loaded erotically, in particular Fatal attraction And Indecent Proposal Before taking a long hiatus from cinema. When he reappeared to film last year Deep waters , a thriller with Ben Affleck And Ana de Armas , it was disappointed to find a new role in many sets.
"One thing they have now, what afflicted me a bit was a bit The intimacy coordinator ," he said The time of India . "The idea of an intimacy coordinator suggests a lack of confidence between a director and his actors."
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