Elizabeth Berkley to Page Six Magazine on Sunday, discussing her ill-fated role in the cinematic masterpiece that was Showgirls:
“If you just looked at it on paper, it felt like a no-brainer.” After all, the Basic Instinct team of director Paul Verhoeven and writer Joe Eszterhas had just made Sharon Stone a household name. Her only concerns at the time were simple, she says. “I thought, ‘Do I feel comfortable with this director? Do I feel like I will be protected in this?’ Those things all felt like ‘yes’ prior to filming. After filming, I can’t say I felt that way.” Because there, of course, is when the media skewered the movie, unanimously crowning it the year’s worst film.
“I think that was the part where I felt let down. I didn’t feel like any of the filmmakers had my back when it came up — at all. Nobody stood up and said a word when the media was being so mean.” She was all of 20 at the time. The actress says she took the Showgirls fallout on her own, promoting the film single-handedly when the other players backed out. “I didn’t want to run away and hide. It was a nasty moment, but I found out what I was made of, I’ll tell you that for sure.”
Translation: At first she was excited. And then she was so scared.
Aw, Elizabeth. Think of it this way: if that movie had been even marginally decent, it wouldn’t be playing on cable TV all the fucking time today. Seriously, sometimes when I just need a good laugh, I’m like, “Hm, I wonder who’s playing Showgirls with awkward digital bras painted on today?” And someone always is.
Translation: At first she was excited. And then she was so scared.
hahahahaha
She is even dumber than I thought if she believed someone would stand up in Hollywood and defend her. Everyone wanted to shrink under a bed and hide, not stand up and call attention to the fact that they made that stinker.
i think i laughed for a week the first time i saw those ridiculous digital bras when they aired this movie on tv.
that movie sucked donkey balls
Yes, Eagle Eye, but I’ve never seen such expert donkey ball sucking in my life!
She’s a dummy for thinking it would make her. The director- not the writer- is the one who’ll make or break a film. So she should’ve compared herself to Sharon Stone in “Total Recall” (same director) rather than Basic Instinct. As I recall, Stone barely raised an eyebrow in Total Recall.
At least she didn’t stiff any bookmakers like that manny Tsangarakis dude, who porked some guy for 30 large
if you have ever seen Showgirls, you will notice how flat Elizabeth Berkley’s ass is, it’s like a pancake! lol
translation of elizabeth’s comments: “i knew that i couldn’t act my way out of a paper bag but my body is slammin’, so i took this piece of shit movie cause i thought it would get me some attention but it wasn’t NICE attention, it was MEAN attention and i felt let down.”
*yawn*
I got to see Showgirls in the theater recently with live commentary by David Schmader. Good god, that made the movie that much better. It’s gloriously trashy on its own (and I also love the cartoon bras when it’s aired on TV) but Mr. Schmader padding the movie makes it that much better. He is also responsible for the commentary on the special edition of the DVD, but I would much rather see it live. He stops, rewinds, and replays the particularly ludicrous scenes and brings the house down with insane laughter.
But Elizabeth Berkley is still a massive idiot.
Actually, Darth Paul, Paul Verhoeven directed Basic Instinct, too. It was the movie he made right before Showgirls.
I looked that up on IMDb, but it’s actually written in the first sentence of Berkley’s quote, dude.
Not that I’m defending her, or anything. I’ve never read the script of Showgirls but if it’s anything at all like what ended up onscreen, I’m not sure what the hell she was thinking.
you big dummy, this movie was awful