The star of ‘Romancing the Stone’ and ‘Body Heat’ rips Hollywood studios for blowing cash on excessive star paychecks. “How much money does a person…
The star of ‘Romancing the Stone’ and ‘Body Heat’ rips Hollywood studios for blowing cash on excessive star paychecks.
“How much money does a person need?” she told the paper. “You can only live in one house at a time. Perhaps they could designate that the studio pay a portion of the fee to an organization or an educational institution…. The hundreds of millions they spend on films now I find essentially immoral.”
Turner said in the interview that Hollywood studios would be better off taking the vast sums paid to starring actors and redirecting a portion of the money to writers, to improve the scripts that form the basis of every Hollywood film, as well as to rehearsal time for actors who are often forced to make instant decisions about their characters while cameras are rolling.
“It gives you time to actually develop characters, instead of being forced to make a quick choice, which you might look back on in a week or so and say, ‘Damn it, I’m locked into that, so that I have to pursue the character this way now,’” she said.
There’s a climate in American culture and most seriously in the Hollywood film-producing culture that women are somewhat interchangeable and are essentially used as props,” Turner said.
