They include living with rheumatoid arthritis, a painful chronic illness, as well as a period of heavy drinking and being a woman and earning an unfair reputation of being “difficult.” Kathleen Turner and Burt Reynolds in ‘Switching Channels’ () Turner shared how her Hollywood success was derailed by a combination of factors. In the wide-ranging interview, Turner explained how she mostly works these days on stage (Including playing the late columnist Molly Ivins in Berkeley Repertory Theater’s 2014 production of “Red Hot Patriot.”) “He’s trying to do some kind of seductive intimacy move,” Turner said. Turner described how he shook her hand with his index finger, “kind of” rubbing the inside of her wrist. Yuck,” she told the magazine.”He has this gross handshake.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)Īs for another would-be seducer, Donald Trump, Turner acknowledged in the interview that she met him in the 1980s, when he was a New York real estate mogul who loved seeing himself in the tabloids. Turner also pointed out that despite this “competition” amongst Douglas, Nicholson and Beatty to get her into bed, “None of them did, by the by.”Īs it turned out, Turner said she had positive professional experiences with the two of the men, Douglas and Nicholson, even after she and Douglas battled over the script for the “Romancing the Stone” sequel, “The Jewel of the Nile.” Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty at the Oscars in 2017. Every time I go to that city I feel insecure.” Turner added: “Assumptions like that are why I’ve never lived in Los Angeles. It was Jack: ‘How could you do that to me?’ ‘Do what?’ ‘You were my date and you left!’ And I said, ‘I was your date? No one informed me.'” “I drove back to the Chateau Marmont,” she recalled. She said she “had a delightful time.” But she had to leave early because they were shooting the next day. Turner also recalled a dinner party during the making of “Prizzi’s Honor” when she took a seat next to Nicholson. Jack Nicholson, with Keanu Reeves, in ‘Something’s Gotta Give.’ (Photo by Bob Marshak) Douglas told her they had “a competition” about “who would get me first,” Turner said in the interview. Turner, now 64, said she later learned from her “Romancing the Stone” co-star Michael Douglas that she had become “a sexual target” for him and two other prominent male stars, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. Kathleen Turner and William Hurt in the steamy noir thriller “Body Heat.”Īs Vulture writes, the Academy Award nominee used her natural talent, distinctive husky voice and “charismatic blend of steel and sass” to light up a string of acclaimed roles in hit 1980s movies, including “Prizzi’s Honor,” “Peggy Sue Got Married,” “Romancing the Stone,” and “The War of the Roses.”īut as Turner notes in a new interview with Vulture, the arts and culture website run by New York Magazine, her debut film role, as a ruthless femme fatale in the erotic noir thriller “Body Heat” in 1981, didn’t just make her internationally famous, it made her “a sexual target.” Once upon a time, Kathleen Turner was one of America’s most interesting screen actresses. Kathleen Turner: How Douglas, Nicholson, Beatty vied for sex
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