The Last Seduction Starring Linda Fiorentino

April 2024 · 9 minute read

I remember the talk around this movie when it came out as everyone was blown away by Fiorentino's performance. I haven't seen this film in ages so I don't know how well it's aged.

I'm wondering if it would make a good candidate for a remake to give some young actress a nice scenery chewing role.

by Anonymousreply 36August 17, 2020 7:42 PM

"Whose cock do I have to suck to get a drink around here?"

by Anonymousreply 1February 25, 2020 11:51 PM

[quote]In 2009, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Mark T. Rossini pleaded guilty to illegally accessing FBI computers during the prosecution of Los Angeles private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Law enforcement officials said Fiorentino previously had had a relationship with Pellicano and wanted to assist his defense. According to prosecutors, Fiorentino was now dating Rossini, and told him she was researching a screenplay based on the case. He conducted searches of government computers for information related to the Pellicano case and passed the results to Fiorentino, who then handed the files over to Pellicano's lawyers in a failed effort to help Pellicano avoid a 15-year prison sentence.

Wow.

What a gigantic cunt she is.

by Anonymousreply 3February 25, 2020 11:54 PM

I used to work in entertainment and those that worked directly with her said she was a see you next tuesday.

she's amazing in that role though. when Peter Berg tells her he's hung like a horse and, looking bored, she grabs his package and demands to see it (I think it' been a while) it's pretty hot!

by Anonymousreply 4February 26, 2020 12:12 AM

[quote] I used to work in entertainment and those that worked directly with her said she was a see you next tuesday.

Wasn't that a pretty common knowledge anyway, even at the time? I think there was quite a lot of schadenfreude when her career stalled and then rapidly went nowhere.

by Anonymousreply 5February 26, 2020 12:16 AM

I just watched the Blu-ray a couple weeks ago. It's a blast and a half and Linda Fiorentino is the femme fatale to end them all. There absolutely no reason to remake it -- it holds up beautifully -- and I can't think of a current actress who could touch Fiorentino in the part.

[quote]when Peter Berg tells her he's hung like a horse and, looking bored, she grabs his package and demands to see it (I think it' been a while) it's pretty hot!

The attached clip is the scene where she first meets Berg.

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by Anonymousreply 6February 26, 2020 1:18 AM

Well, his package does look like it has the potential to be sizeable.

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by Anonymousreply 7February 26, 2020 1:27 AM

"I'm sorry the law doesn't make it easier for you to steal, Bridget."

"Did you tell her he's a black man?"

Paraphrasing. LOVE this movie.

by Anonymousreply 8February 26, 2020 1:46 AM

Berg was hot in that movie, way back before he became a mediocre action director. Wasn’t there a plot point in that movie about him sleeping with a drag queen or something? I haven’t seen it in decades.

by Anonymousreply 9February 26, 2020 1:49 AM

How about J Law r6?

You don't think she might be interesting in the role of Bridget?

by Anonymousreply 10February 26, 2020 2:47 PM

"There absolutely no reason to remake it"

Ye$ there i$

by Anonymousreply 11February 26, 2020 3:06 PM

R9, I believe Berg was married to a trans woman in the film but something like he wasn't aware at the time of the marriage...

by Anonymousreply 12February 26, 2020 3:11 PM

“Whose cock do I have to suck to suck a cock around here!”

by Anonymousreply 13February 26, 2020 3:19 PM

This movie should've made Linda Fiorentino into a major star. But as others have noted, she was notoriously difficult to work with, making someone like Faye Dunaway look like a nun in comparison.

by Anonymousreply 14August 17, 2020 6:18 AM

Yeah, she really had the goods but she was such a cunt that nobody wanted to deal with her. You have to be on top for a while before you can be a cunt and they'll still be waiting for you when you're on your way down so....

Pellicano must have had some serious shit on her. Like she shot some guys and he has it on tape, something like that.

by Anonymousreply 15August 17, 2020 6:29 AM

I liked her in Dogma and Men in Black. I always wondered what happened to her.

by Anonymousreply 16August 17, 2020 6:38 AM

She must have been such a notorious cunt because I believe even back then we heard rumblings that she was a... cunt.

But, what exactly did she do to warrant such a reputation? I mean, she did beat up little kids? Tell directors to fuck off?

by Anonymousreply 17August 17, 2020 6:48 AM

You know r17 I’ve read threads like this for YEARS becsuse I worship this lady’s performance in TLS, and when someone asks for details, none are ever provided, leading me to believe it’s a lot of shit.

Here’s my uninformed guess. She’s smart and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. There are many world-class assholes in Hollywood. Anyone see a dangerous combination in that equation?

by Anonymousreply 18August 17, 2020 6:51 AM

I do wonder if some director/producer who wanted to fuck her got turned down coldly by her and she got blackballed by the industry as a result, a la Weinstein.

But I agree, r18, there are never any details except vague references to her being "difficult".

by Anonymousreply 19August 17, 2020 6:53 AM

Kevin Smith said she was a bitch. He seems like the type to tell everything. In excruciating detail

by Anonymousreply 20August 17, 2020 6:56 AM

Yet he hasn’t, r20. And he seems like an asshole of the first order (although a different flavor from the usual Hollywood brand). His movies are utter shit.

by Anonymousreply 21August 17, 2020 6:59 AM

I worked with an A-list actor and asked him why Linda Fiorentino didn't go farther as she was so talented.

He said, "She had man trouble."

by Anonymousreply 22August 17, 2020 7:00 AM

Kevin peaked with Dogma to me. Chasing Amy was overrated. Clerks and Clerks II were great comedies. Mallrats was okay. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was for fans and only funny if you got the inside jokes.

by Anonymousreply 23August 17, 2020 7:01 AM

Linda never topped this performance IMO and was really impressive. I remember being in middle school and hearing the term film noir for the very first time - used by critics of the film who were raving unanimously. I was eagerly awaiting Jade a year later - which wasn't as terrible as everyone said, but a huge letdown nonetheless. Peter Berg was so damn sexy back then - one of my earliest actor infatuations along with Paul Mercurio and Chris O'Donnell. Great film that I had forgotten existed - thanks for the memories.

by Anonymousreply 24August 17, 2020 7:21 AM

With me, Kevin peaked when he stopped making movies.

by Anonymousreply 25August 17, 2020 7:36 AM

Jade was decent. But came out in the aftermath of Showgirls.

by Anonymousreply 26August 17, 2020 8:26 AM

Man trouble?

Meaning she wouldn't fuck Harvey? Or was it something to do with Pellicano? Or someone else?

by Anonymousreply 27August 17, 2020 8:26 AM

R24 Or when Kevin told the story of breaking the toilet off the wall. I don't like his movies or his fat ass in giant cut offs. And no, he is not slim no matter how many hudreds of pounds he lost. He's not funny. His films aren't good.

by Anonymousreply 28August 17, 2020 8:43 AM

R26 I agree - it was a good if not great movie. To me, it seemed all-too reminiscent of the earlier, far superior Joe Eszterhas hit Basic Instinct (a rich guy gets murdered in an opulent mansion in SF by a sexy female killer...). Poor David Caruso took the hit as it was his first "leading man" movie role (that I know of). I never realized that it lost as much money as it did. Financially it was a huge bomb (at least upon release).

by Anonymousreply 29August 17, 2020 8:51 AM

This is without question one of my favourite films. I saw it when it was first released and usually have watched it once or twice a year since then. Her performance is delicious and the script is really sharp; Berg and Bill Pullman are perfectly cast.

I recently saw Alan Rudolph’s The Moderns (1988) with Fiorentino as the Hemingway-seque love interest between Keith Carradine and John Lone. (Keith Carradine - so cute.) Fiorentino is never a bad actress but she’s not versatile either - that, more than anything, is probably what limited her career. She was a type and as Bridget Gregory the very best of that type but not the sort you could make a long impressive career out of - maybe in a different time but not the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Still, she’s great in The Last Seduction.

by Anonymousreply 30August 17, 2020 10:08 AM

John Lone was so beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 31August 17, 2020 10:25 AM

John Lone was very sexy and handsome.

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by Anonymousreply 32August 17, 2020 10:34 AM

Whats this numbnumb thing about remakes. Rewatch the original!

by Anonymousreply 33August 17, 2020 10:35 AM

R3, I swear she sounds EXACTLY like the character in The Last Seduction. She literally seduced Rossini with sex to break the law for her. Real typecasting for that movie or good training.

by Anonymousreply 34August 17, 2020 12:07 PM

[quote]I do wonder if some director/producer who wanted to fuck her got turned down coldly by her and she got blackballed by the industry as a result, a la Weinstein.

I think this is quite possible. Fiorentino may very well be a bitch, but she did have man trouble of more than one kind.

She did an interview once on one of the late-night shows in which she said that Joel Silver once told her that she was a pretty good actress, but 'her jeans needed to be tighter'. I also remember Scorsese and Griffin Dunne talking about her, and they were reduced to a couple of middle school boys with a copy of Playboy - just drooling idiots. There's no doubt in my mind that any number of powerful industry dudes wanted a piece, and got turned down. it's not a big leap to think one or more of them got bitter about it, and that kind of bitterness has the power to destroy careers, as we know. And more often than not, it starts with rumors about the actress being 'difficult', and urging people they know not to hire her.

She was also involved for a long time (briefly married) with the director John Byrum, and according to people who knew them, he was abusive and controlling, isolating her from her friends and family. Around the time of The Last Seduction she finally split from him. He's not that big of a deal as a director but he's friends/has worked with a lot of bigger names, and who knows if he had a hand in hurting her career afterwards.

by Anonymousreply 35August 17, 2020 12:38 PM

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