When you’re an actor or actress, no matter how good she is, you don’t always have the luxury of doing a good role and just taking what comes with it because the pot has to boil.
This was, for example, the case of Jeremy Irons, who accepted a dangerous proposal to shoot in full costume. In this case, a terrifying adaptation of Dungeons and Dragons, slayed to biblical proportions by one Courtney Solomon. This is how the actor justified his choice in an interview with the Guardian in 2010: “I just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow.”
And then there are the talented people who are sometimes stuck on film and forced to film even if they don’t want to; Always clear for legal questions. So was Channing Tatum in the first GI Joe movie. Or Mike Myers, forced to wear a scared cat costume. A role he not only hated to the point of describing the experience as “nightmare”But which also took a colossal flop at the box office. Double punishment, in a way…
It is into this very unfortunate category that a competing – and even downright embarrassing – dick, which came out almost 30 years ago, fits: the T-Rex. victim? None other than Whoopi Goldberg.
Denver isn’t the last of the dinosaurs, so is Theodore
In this 1h25 comedy, already to the bones, the actress played Cathy Coltrane, a police officer responsible for training a new teammate: Theodore Rex, aka Ted, a dinosaur delegated to find the killers of other dinosaurs. While investigating, somewhat upset by Ted’s love affair, they discover the Machiavellian activities of Elizar Kane (poor Armin Müller-Stahl…), a scientist specializing in DNA who wants to control every species on the planet…
When the producers approached the actor for the film, he initially agreed, but then backed out once the project started. Producer Richard Abramson Sues Goldberg For $20 Million “verbal agreement”, Expecting him to star in a movie. Goldberg, in turn, filed a complaint.
But things didn’t go the way he wanted… the verbal agreement was actually a phone conversation between him and the producer. “I am 100% committed, I support this project 100%” He told her while her answering machine recorded the conversation…
“You made my life hell.”
Abramson and his attorneys submitted the tape to the court, and despite Goldberg’s team arguing that it was an illegal tape, the hearing continued. They eventually struck a deal and paid Goldberg $7 million to appear in the film.
as told slashfilm site in 2015The actor said these words to the producer during the last mediation: “Maybe in ten years you and I will have coffee and laugh about it. But you made my life hell and I hate you with all my heart.” The same article quotes another of the film’s producers, Stefano Ferrari, as saying that Goldberg called Abramson “boy son” Every time he saw her on set… good atmosphere.
anyway, In the endWhoopi Goldberg finds herself tied down to making a movie she hates so much that, moreover, is a movie The most expensive to ever hit the video shelves without leaving the box office. It means humiliation.
Source: Allocine
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