Footage of G and Michael Douglas Rehearsing a "Fatal Attraction" Scene

God, she’s amazing.

She's okay.

[quote] She should've won an Oscar that year.

She was ignored.

Just BANG!

She looks reasonably attractive there. I like her personality better than M. M tries to be self-effacing but The Grand Lady inside of her always seeps out. Glenn seems more down to earth.

Isn't that her screen test and not a rehersal?

“I’m not going to be IGNORED, Dan!” is one of the most iconic lines in cinema.

Wow, rehearsal or not, she completely pulls you into the scene. And there's just so much going on in her character.

R6 No, it's a rehearsal.

Great film, legendary

R6 It's a rehearsal. You can see they're rehearsing the dialogue, as well as the blocking.

She does not include “Dan” here. Simply, “I’m not going to be ignored.” Was “Dan” in the script or did she add it in later?

R12 I also don't recall the dialogue where she talks about Beth being dull. I wonder if they removed that in the final cut.

She should go have done Grease 2.

She should've won for Dangerous Liaisons too.

Wow, I've never seen her look more beautiful than she does in this clip before. She looked much more terrible in the actual film.

R16 They made her hair wilder in the movie and they gave her darker eyeliner to make her look more sinister.

R13 - the part about Beth being dull is not in the movie,

R18 They changed a lot in that scene. I actually like original dialogue better.

The performance is almost what you see in the movie. This is on one of the DVDS. They also include Anne Archer's breakdown when she finds out about the affair. That is not nearly as ready to be filmed. Adrian Lyne must have worked with her a lot to get her where she needed to be whereas Glenn is ready to go.

You don't see "clicks and whirrs" when she acts unlike M. I've always liked G better but M gobbles up every good women's roles.

It's heartbreaking how she reveals she's pregnant and expects him to be happy. Then she turns on a dime to hurt and angry. Most excellent.

G's actual screentest supposedly so wowed Adrian Lyne that he got up and ran down the hall to the producers screaming I FOUND HER!

or maybe it was an actual audition come to think of it and not a screen test.

R15, your clip is what I imagine is the nightly routine for EVERY DLer...

R16-She really looks quite attractive in the rehearsal scene--just needs a little more make-up. Is it my imagination, or did Glenn become much more masculine looking as she got older?

Sorry I forget, too lazy to google it-who won again that year? No way in hell whoever won gave a better performance than Glenn. Michael was pretty amazing too. Much better than his performance in "Wall Street". Was he even nominated for FA?

Don't know who Glenn pissed off in Hollywood for her never to have won an Oscar? Harvey W? Meryl could never have given that kind of performance in a million years. The difference between them as actresses is really quite simple-Glenn becomes the character, while Meryl is always "acting".

Cher won that year for moonstruck.

Jodie Foster in The Accused beat her out for Dangerous Liaisons.

Cher? " Biggest robbery since Brinks" as Grouco wired to Judy when she lost to Grace Kelly the year of "Star is Born". I guess Judy burned too many bridges. Still don't know what bridges Glenn "burned". I didn't see Foster in "The Accused", but I'm thinking she won because of the subject matter of the film; not because she gave the better performance. Jodie Foster is always Jodie Foster- another one like Meryl who does accents and wears wigs and is always "acting"--never "inhabits" the role like Glenn.

Never really understood the love for Cher in "Moonstruck"-thought it was a perfectly "adequate" performance, but hardly Oscar worthy. She actually much more convincing in "Mask".

She really should have won for, "Dangerous Liasons".

Glenn's lantern jaw has grown over the years; she was always handsome not beautiful. She's in danger of becoming a caricature of herself. I wish some producers would fund "Sunset Boulevard" so she could finally win an Oscar in competition. More likely, they'll give her an honorary award before she dies (how do they time these things?)

She should have won for both DL and FA.

Glenn > Meryl

Maybe she would have won if they had put a pinball machine scene in Fatal Attraction.

Fatal Attraction has some of the best acting in movie history. Everyone is amazing in it, even the bunny.

It's also a movie that deeply divides men and women. If you're at a party and would like to start shit between male and female guests, start talking about Fatal Attraction and watch the knives fly.

R34 is posting from 1988

Glenn looks attractive in the recording. In the film, she's wearing the hideous fashions and makeup of the 1980s. Unflattering.

Her character in Fatal Attraction lives in an all white loft apartment in the Meat Packing district. Chic. With a glamorous career and sexually uninhibited. What does this character see in HIM? The fact that he is a family man? A challenge?

The fact she has 0 Oscars but Frances McDormand has 3..

I would agree that opinions have changed radically since the release of the movie. It still is divisive but nowhere near where it was.

R35, People still talk about older movies you know. When IMDB had message boards, the one about Fatal Attraction was the most chaotic. The men and women were at war on that board. It's a movie that people still talk about today.

What is it with Gen Zers and their hatred of anything that was made before 2020?

R39, I'm a Gen-Xer and I do recall when people would speak very heatedly about FA from my childhood, but I just don't think this is a film that still provokes heated debate. Also, the IMDB message boards have been down for years, maybe even a decade...

Girls, GIRLS! You're both old.

She killed a pet bunny, people hated her. It's her hairstyle they should have been angry with.

r36 On the dvd there is a section where the art director talks about how G let him make her look worse and worse as the film went on (flat hair, dark eye makeup) He wanted it to show her mental decay and praised G's lack of vanity. He says you rarely find that in an actress.

(I think she looks pretty striking in the beginning of the film at the book party when they first meet. She's supposed to be a woman who would draw men's attention and I think she does that at the opening of the film.)

r36 she has daddy issues. Married men are attractive to her. She gets to take him away from mommy. I think that is classic Freud.

[quote] Jodie Foster in The Accused beat her out for Dangerous Liaisons.

Then and now, an utter farce.

R43 which DVD edition do you have?

Am I misremembering or was she not actually pregnant and just trying to trap Dan?

I think this scene is meant to cast ambiguity on Alex' pregnancy but we see Dan going through her apartment and finding pregnancy tests so I think it's assumed she was actually pregnant.

She is definitely pregnant, just like in Madame Butterfly.

I concluded that Alex, who is BPD, made up the pregnancy.

Not sure r46. I took it out of the library. It had a lot of extra features.

She has an austere, stern beauty like Barbara Stanwyck.