Gina Gershon on Passing on Slasher Role, Hollywood Survival

0:00It's March 29th. You're listening to Entertainment and Celebrity News today, AI-powered pop culture updates. I'm Corey with the story. Gina Gershon just revealed she passed on a lead role in a classic Slasher flick because the death scene fell way too exploitative. She was set to get killed with her top off right before the end, which struck her as pointless and over the top. In her new memoir, she breaks it down. Her character would take a stake through the heart, blood running down her chest, barren all. Then, Slasher movies loved that formula, always showing girls dying exposed, like it was mandatory. Instead, she kicked off her career that same year as a dancer in Beetlemania of the movie. She built up with small parts and girls just wanna have fun, pretty in pink, cocktail and jungle fever, then exploded with her steamy roll-in, 1995's Showgirls. These days, Gershon lets back on Showgirls differently. She now sees its brutal scenes, like the Assault, as sharp commentary on ugly power plays,

1:00capitalism, and how powerful folks they protected. Her book Alpha Pussy dives deeper into surviving Hollywood's wild side, and has got fans rethinking those old films all over again.