Actress Gina Gershon Fired Her Talent Agents Back Early On In Her Career After They Refused To Let Her Take On A Role As A Lesbian Ex-con In The Then-unknown Wachowskis' Mobster Movie Bound.
The Showgirls star reveals she fell in love with the script as soon as she read it, but her representatives didn't want Gershon to risk her entire career by featuring in the 1996 film, at a time when playing gay and lesbian characters onscreen was still considered controversial.
However, Gershon shunned her agents' advice and left the firm so she could freely work with filmmaking siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski, who was then known as Larry, on their directorial debut.
The actress explains, "With Bound, I loved the script so much and no one knew these unknown directors and I wanted to meet them, because I thought the writing was so spot on, and as soon as I met them, I was like, 'These guys are great.'
"You could tell they were geniuses, but my agent and everyone was like, 'You're not doing this movie, it's gonna end your career.' I'm like, 'Why?' (They said), 'Well, you're playing a lesbian. It'll ruin your career.' It's like, 'So what? It's a great part, it's a classic part that I never get to play, and there's two unknown directors and they're bad a**es; these directors are incredible.' She was like, 'No, no, it will ruin you, we can't let you do it.' So I said, 'Well, I guess that I'm gonna have to leave.' I left my agents over it. I said 'You'll get the commission.'"
Gershon, 53, thoroughly enjoyed working with the Wachowskis, but admits she did struggle for a few years afterwards to find different kinds of parts as she was suddenly stereo-typed.
She tells U.S. talk show The View, "At the time, it definitely pigeon-holed me for a second, after Showgirls and that (Bound), and then all of a sudden I was getting killer lesbian motorcycle crazy people, and I just thought, 'Oh God, this is so silly', but I'm so proud that I did that movie and I'm happy that it helped a lot of people. I loved it."
Angela and Brian have it all; they're both doctors who live in a beautiful house...
This film's unhinged plot constantly catches us off guard with its bizarre twists and turns,...
What better way to start an action movie than with... statistics!From that rousing introduction we...
It's so bad it's good. But hey, it ain't that good.ay?Showgirls is the capper in...