It’s really a heavily cynical dark satire, and the filming of it had all of that darkness in it. “It was a complicated movie, and I had a different path on the film than other people did. “It’s tough to talk about,” she explains.
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In 2015, the Saved By the Bell star (who will headline a reboot of the series that will premiere on new US streaming service Peacock later this year) introduced a 20th-anniversary screening of Showgirls in Hollywood, and described the experience as a “magical full-circle moment.”Īnd in a 2017 interview with Yahoo Entertainment, co-star Gina Gershon said she was “super-happy” the movie had a latter-day fanbase, but also expressed ambivalence about revisiting it. That’s a contrast from Verhoeven and some of the other cast members, including Berkley, who has been more public about embracing the movie’s camp status. Even as the film became embraced as a cult favourite, she’s purposely remained on the sidelines, declining to appear at public events or even discuss her experience in the press until now. “I know I didn’t want to see that for any reason,” she says, emphatically. To this day, Ravera has only seen Showgirls once - at the film’s 1995 Los Angeles premiere - and she purposely left during the rape scene. (United Artists/Courtesy Everett Collection) Gina Ravera and Elizabeth Berkley in Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Showgirls. “I don’t know if I would have taken the movie if I had understood that.” “When you do a scene like that, your body doesn’t know it’s not real,” she says now, characterising the filming of that sequence as a deeply unpleasant and painful nine-hour ordeal. That controversial scene was even harder for Ravera to perform. Because of her inherent goodness, Molly is also offered up as the movie’s “sacrificial lamb,” brutally beaten and abused in a traumatic rape sequence that’s difficult to watch, even for the movie’s most die-hard fans.
“She’s very sweet, and there’s no hint of darkness,” Ravera tells Yahoo Entertainment in her very first interview about the film since its release. As Molly Abrams, the good-hearted costume designer that Nomi befriends soon after blowing into town, the actress plays the one character in Showgirls’s heightened version of Las Vegas who doesn’t have a darker agenda. Showgirls co-star Gina Ravera is also hesitant to fully embrace the film’s camp status, for more personal reasons. Read more: Showgirls : Piece Of Trash Or Ironic Masterpiece?
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