Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / Why the ‘Fatal Attraction’ TV Show’s Producers Refused to Meet With the Original Film’s Star, Glenn Close
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, a new thriller drama series.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Fatal Attraction is based on one of the most iconic
- 0:06Speaker 2: films of the nineteen eighties, Fatal Attraction, starring Glenn Close
- 0:09Speaker 2: and Michael Douglas. Glenn's portrayal of the fem fatale Alex
- 0:13Speaker 2: Forrest is legendary, but Glenn herself as express reservations about
- 0:16Speaker 2: how the character and her mental health struggles were portrayed.
- 0:19Speaker 2: She remains highly critical of the film. Similar concerns were
- 0:22Speaker 2: the reason show runner Alex Cunningham wanted to do the
- 0:25Speaker 2: reboot to modernize the story and say something different about
- 0:27Speaker 2: mental health, and when she happened to bring glenk Close's
- 0:29Speaker 2: hairstylists on board, Glenn herself provided her email just in
- 0:33Speaker 2: case Cunningham ever wanted to chat. She tells the Hollywood Reporter,
- 0:36Speaker 2: I really thought about it until I realized so many
- 0:39Speaker 2: people are going to ask her if she's seen it
- 0:41Speaker 2: and what she thinks. She's so kind that if we
- 0:44Speaker 2: brought her in to our inner sanctum, she'd feel like
- 0:46Speaker 2: she couldn't say she didn't like it. So I sent
- 0:49Speaker 2: her an email saying I'd love nothing more than to
- 0:51Speaker 2: use this excuse to get close to you. But honestly,
- 0:54Speaker 2: I want you to be able to tell people if
- 0:55Speaker 2: you don't like the show, and I know you wouldn't
- 0:58Speaker 2: do that if you like this action is streaming on
- 1:00Speaker 2: Paramount Plus.
- 1:02Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.