Excerpted Tidbits From Actress Kathleen Turner’s Autobiography

January 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Tagged as Actresses · Kathleen Turner

Actress Kathleen Turner has written a very revealing autobiography. The Daily Mail has an excerpt in it which discusses not only her sex scenes with William Hurt in Body Heat (and other movies), but why she detests Burt Reynolds and Nicolas Cage.

What’s really surprising is a comment about her appearance, when she was 25 and working on Body Heat:

But I was no great beauty: back then, I was a skinny woman with long legs, almost no boobs, good hair and bad teeth. Indeed, one of the studio’s worries was that my teeth didn’t look American - so they paid to have a fake cover made for them. It was awkward because it changed my lips and the way I spoke. It was uncomfortable, too, but I didn’t have any choice.

Proof that actresses are human and have the same neuroses as anyone else.

As for why she hates Nicolas Cage, it seems Cage was trying too hard to prove he didn’t get his role as Turner’s boyfriend/husband in Peggy Sue Got Married due to nepotism (uncle Francis Ford Coppola was directing). Cage apparently contradicted everything Coppola asked him to do. Turner also claims he might have stolen a chihuaha dog he liked by tucking it into his jacket.

Her unhappiest experience was with Burt Reynolds on Switching Channels. She says that he told her, “I’ve never taken second billing to a woman.” She was pregnant at the time, and Michael Caine was unable to take the role as her husband because he was working on other movies. Reynolds was hired and, Turner claims, was nasty to her all the time, making fun of her.

If you’re interested in reading more of the excerpt, check out the Daily Mail. The excerpts are from Send Yourself Roses, by Kathleen Turner, with Gloria Feldt. It’s out on February 7th.

Turner has no current projects but most recently appeared on Nip/Tuck (2006) and provided voice work for Monster House (2006). She was also in Law & Order in 2006. The video clip below is from Body Heat.

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