Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker by Stephen Galloway

Author:Stephen Galloway [Stephen Galloway]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101904770
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Published: 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Sliver showed none of the taste he had brought to his more celebrated work. Rather, this was a sensationalist story about a beautiful young woman and the Peeping Tom who stalks her, who may or may not be a murderer.

By the time Lansing got involved, the film was sinking fast. Its stars, Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin, loathed each other, and one would refuse to act in a scene when the other was shooting a close-up. Stone, reveling in her newfound stardom following 1992’s Basic Instinct, despised Evans as well as Baldwin. Believing the producer had kept one of her girlfriends locked up in his house, she had him banned from the set.

“Bob would say things like, ‘Why wouldn’t you just fuck [Baldwin]?’ ” she recalled. “ ‘Why don’t you just fuck the kid? Back when I was doing that bullfighting movie with Ava Gardner [1957’s The Sun Also Rises], I tried to seduce her. That’s how I came in the business. I would fuck people.’ Sherry would look at me and put her arm around me and walk me away from it. She’d say, ‘Sharon, just come to work and do your job.’ She was never invested in continuing to dramatize [a situation].”

Three weeks into Lansing’s tenure, things almost turned deadly when a helicopter carrying a cameraman vanished inside a Hawaiian volcano, where he was shooting backdrops for the movie’s conclusion. “As an ultimate dare, the [protagonists] fly into the lava,” said director Phillip Noyce, noting that test audiences later rejected that ending “because it was so nihilistic.”

The director was in Los Angeles when he got a call from the production office telling him, “We’ve lost the bird,” he remembered. “That was the beginning of a forty-eight-hour nightmare. There’d been a malfunction and the pilot had to crash-land the helicopter inside the volcano. The pilot stayed with the helicopter, which was sheared in half. The cloud and sulfur cover closed in, and the cameraman and camera operator decided to try and climb out, but they became enveloped in the vapor and couldn’t see. It was a hellish situation.”

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