By Stone Martindale Jan 23, 2008, 17:52 GMT
Actress Kathleen Turner has revealed her true feelings over her career co-stars such as William Hurt, Nicolas Cage and Burt Reynolds.
Kathleen Turner (L) receives the Joseph Plateau Lifetime Achievement Award of Mayor of Gent, Daniel Termont (R) at the International Film Festival Gent, 17 October 2007. EPA/LIEVEN VAN ASSCHE
In published excerpts from her upcoming autobiography, "Send Yourself Roses," now being quoted in Britain's Daily-Mail, Turner says her steamy sex scenes with William "Bill" Hurt were anything but hot: "It didn't help that we were incredibly cold during the entire shoot. The film was supposed to be set in the steamy heat of Florida, but an actor's strike delayed filming and we didn't start until December.
So, while Bill and I were in little T-shirts and shorts, the crew was wearing duffel coats and snow-hoods. We just wanted to kill them. We relied on tricks to avoid looking cold on screen, such as tensing every single muscle in our bodies until the director said: 'Roll.' By doing this, we were able to stop shivering.
We also put ice cubes in our mouths and spat them out when the cameras were rolling, so our breaths didn't come out as clouds. On top of all that, Bill and I had to be sprayed with droplets of water to simulate perspiration. Brrr!"
Turner had sharp words for Nicholas Cage on the set of "Peggy Sue Got Married," directed by his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, and for which she got an Oscar nomination.
"Everything Francis wanted him to do, he went against to show that he wasn't under his uncle's wing. Which was ridiculous. Oh, that stupid voice of his and the fake teeth! Honestly, I cringe to think about it. He caused so many problems," Turner writes. "He was arrested twice for drunk driving and, I think, once for stealing a dog. He'd come across a Chihuahua he liked and stuck it in his jacket."
Cage responded to Page Six of the New York Post, denying he had never been arrested or stolen a dog. "While I recall Kathleen Turner being a great lady and wonderful actress, the credibility of her biography and her memory is at stake . . . Fact credibility should have been exercised on [her] part," he said.
Burt Reynolds, who worked with Kathleen on "Switching Channels," was "my unhappiest experience as an actress . . . For whatever reason, the first thing Burt said to me was: 'I've never taken second billing to a woman,' " she writes. "Oh, every day there were nasty little digs. For instance, because of my pregnancy, the production team had given me a golf cart so I didn't have to walk around too much - and Burt even made fun of that. He was just nasty."
Even screen siren Raquel Welch got some ink from Turner over an audition for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway:
"One afternoon, my male co-star came into my dressing room and said: 'You gotta come. You gotta see this, Kathleen.' We crept in through the back door of the theatre and watched as Raquel Welch did an audition. 'Well, I just don't think that Kathleen has ever been feline enough,' we heard her say. She was going around the stage with her hands like claws, hissing and making cat gestures. Oddly enough, the producers decided not to use her."
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