Gina Gershon: From Horror to Showgirls

0:00It's March 29th. Entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now. AI powered and spotlight ready. I'm Cory with the story. Gina Gershin just dropped a wild story from her early career. She turned down a lead role in a classic slasher flick because the death scene felt straight up, exploitative. Right before her character got staked through the heart, the script had her top come off with blood everywhere. She called it lame exploitation 101 in her new memoir, Alpha Pussy. That gut feeling steered her path big time. Instead of jumping into horror, she made her screen debut that same year as a dancer in Beetlemania, the movie. She built momentum with small parts and flicks like girls just want to have fun, pretty in pink, cocktail, and jungle fever. Fast forward and she blew up as Crystal Conners in the 1995 Code Hit Showgirls. That role had plenty of skin and a brutal sexual assault scene, which she pushed back on at the time. Her career took off from there, proving she knew how to pick her spots.

1:02Now promoting her book, Gershin flipped the script on showgirls. She says that rape scene nails ugly America, capitalism, and power games. How the gross stuff protects the powerful guys. It's evolved her view from back then. Her instinct back in the day kept her authentic, and it's paying off in these honest reflections