This is a story as old as Hollywood, involving huge sums of money, accusations of jealousy, and threats that the stars will allegedly destroy if they don’t get what they want.
In this case, it was Debra Winger who disturbed the hornet’s nest when criticized Their own team And claimed that because she opposed Madonna’s casting in principle, she withdrew from production, suggesting that the pop star would turn this pro-feminist film into an “Elvis movie.”
Although the late director Penny Marshall could not defend her current iconic film and movie star Madonna, Tom Hanks With Gina Davis-So far chose not to publicly contact Wenger, then head of Columbia Pictures, Frank Price told Weekly newspaper Given that he was the one who “released” the actress and replaced it with Davis, he had to clarify the facts.
As Price said, Wenger felt bitter about hiring Madonna, because considering Madonna’s status as one of the world’s largest pop stars at the time, she was jealous that a woman who was not her would attract a lot of attention. He also said that not only did she “threate” Marshall, but also the entire crew, and that he decided to get rid of her, not the other way around.
“After we hired Madonna, Debra told Petunia that she was looking forward to the production of’Long Hot Summer’, and the director thought it was a less concealed threat,” Price recalled. “There are many ways actors can mess up the director. The first is to be late and refuse to leave the dressing room. You can’t let a person with an axe struggle on the screen.”
After Marshall told Price of her concerns, he said he called Wenger to meet.
“I agreed to let her present her case, and then she appeared with her agent and her lawyer. She spoke for an hour, and when she finished speaking, I did not hear an apology to Penny, nor did she say her Will it not make the production difficult, so we settled her contract,” he said.
Price said that he originally hired Wenger because he was satisfied with her performance in his other movie six years ago. Legal Eagles, Starring Robert Redford and Daryl Hannah, he knew she was “troublesome” because of the way she interacted with Hannah.
“Winger is an amazing actor, but it turns out that she is very difficult with anything related to Darryl. So when the Madonna incident came up, I realized that there was an element of jealousy-being another woman She may draw more when she dislikes it and pays more attention to it. This is what she thinks of Madonna.”
Price left Colombia just before that Their own teamOpened and created his own studio, Price Entertainment.Although he has dealt with Wenger in the past, he once again made her play the leading role in 1993 Shadow RealmStarring Anthony Hopkins and directed by Richard Attenborough.
“I decided to choose her because there are basically no other women in the photo. I think the presence of Sir Anthony and Sir Richard is enough to motivate her not to show any difficult behavior. I was right. She did a good job. Work. But in all my other cases with her, I think she has problems with specific women,” Price said.
Weekly newspaper Wenger has been contacted and if she responds, this story will be updated.
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inside telegraph During the interview, Wenger doubled her evaluation of the “Elvis movie” Their own team She told a British newspaper for the first time in her autobiography in 2012, “The studio agrees with me because this is the only time I charge a fee for payment or broadcasting under the contract. In other words, I charge my salary, even though I Without playing, it’s difficult to get into the court.”
According to Price, as he said, this is also misleading. Weekly newspaper He agreed to pay Wenger an undisclosed amount of money to voluntarily withdraw from the film. The money is small enough that he can hire Davis without paying more for the role than he had arranged to pay from the beginning, so in essence, Davis agreed to pay less than Wenger Charged fees to play this role.
Winger tells telegraph Davis “done well” in the role initially prepared for her, and Madonna’s “acting career is self-evident.” She also said that the movie was interesting in general, but belittled it because the audience didn’t walk away and asked, “Wow, did those women do this?”
Price said: “This is a sour demeanor of the iconic photos that have existed for years, and she may regret that she is not among them.”
in 2012, Their own team Deposited in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library Congress, Calling it “have cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.”
