God, you did not want to get Bill talking too much. Just to go back to working with Michael Douglas. You did three movies with him. How quickly was it apparent that you played off each other so well? I was willing to throw myself down mountainsides. And when we did the sequel, Jewel of the Nile, the sense of coming back together was so cool.
It was nice to be back with friends. Were you surprised or hurt at the way Michael leaned on you to do that movie? That was a bad blowup. I had signed a contract to do a sequel [to Romancing the Stone ] but the script for it [ The Jewel of the Nile ] was terrible. What had happened was that Romancing was so successful that Diane [Thomas], who wrote the original script, evidently asked Michael for what he felt was a ridiculous sum to work on the sequel.
So instead, he went with these two guys and what they came up with was terrible, formulaic, sentimental. Anyway, I said no. Eventually Michael and I talked. And Michael did go to her for some alterations.
But ultimately I read the script on a plane to Morocco, where the film was shooting, and I was furious. When I got to the hotel in Fez, Michael and I sat down on the floor with three versions of the script. We were trading pages to get a script that was acceptable to both of us.
Have you seen a change in the kind of acting popular in Hollywood over the years? Or the kind of acting that appeals to students in your master classes? I have a confession to make. I never really studied acting. People talk about these different techniques — Meisner, all this stuff. My acting school was acting. One year, when I was at Southwest Missouri State University, there were only 14 nights out of an entire year that I was not in rehearsal or in performance.
I just did it. In fact, the master classes I do, my course is called Practical Acting. You shut up and do it. What do you think about the approach of actors like Dustin Hoffman or Daniel Day-Lewis, who famously do all this intense in-character preparation in order to play a role? Do you think I was going to hang out with whores on Hollywood Boulevard and find out what the fuck that was like? I have an imagination, you know. My belief is that all the information I need is in the script.
How often do you get recognized for your voice? More often than by my looks. If I speak, heads turn in my direction. How much of that recognition is due to Jessica Rabbit? I think my voice has taken on a persona of its own.
But my voice is an asset. I played one once — it was Nina in The Seagull — and I was terrible. At this point in your life and career, what would be a dream role for you?
I have a very exciting idea about how to do Lear. Usually when women play Lear, the daughters are rewritten to be sons. So what? From a mother? My God. The fuck you 50s. I did what I wanted. How do your 60s feel? Sixty freaked me out. I deserve a good ring. Yes, 60 felt different. It was strange. In a good way? In an interesting way. This interview was edited and condensed from two conversations. Subscribe Now! Already a subscriber? Other symptoms include loss of energy, low fever, loss of appetite and rheumatoid nodules — lumps that grow under the skin in the elbow and hands, according to the American College of Rheumatology.
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NS: You've been in the business for over 40 years, do you still think female leading roles dry up after women turn 40? Has Hollywood changed at all? KT: I would like to see the studios try and do something fresh, not repeat TV shows or comic books.
That would be refreshing — to have new material, new voices, in the system. The studios are basically banks now, not creative outlets. Oh, sure. My God, it is really so long ago. I had a ball doing [those movies with him], and we had some fine directors. It was another life, do you know what I mean?
You two had so much chemistry in those films, as you do now. Did you have a crush on each other? I was fancy-free, as they say. At that point, Michael said he was separated from Diandra [Luker, his first wife]. And so it seemed as though, you know, we could have a relationship, but then Diandra came down to Mexico and that killed that.
So there you go. But I was knocked out by him for a while, you bet. He still does.
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