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Michael Douglas says Debra Winger bit him
The film, produced by Douglas and directed by Robert Zemeckis, tells the story of Joan Wilder, a romance novelist who falls in love with chook hunter Jack Colton (Douglas) within the Colombian jungle.
On the time, Winger was one in all Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses, having starred within the “Marvel Lady” TV sequence and the Oscar-winning hit “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
In accordance with Douglas, he and Zemeckis met with Winger at a Mexican restaurant in Texas whereas she was capturing “Phrases of Endearment,” hoping to solid her as Joan. Nonetheless, the dinner did not finish fairly the best way Douglas envisioned.
“She comes out for us to have a dinner one night time and all of us have dinner collectively and we’re speaking and knocking again some tequilas and this and that,” Douglas informed Lowe within the episode, launched Thursday.
“We stroll out and, simply as you’ll type of go, ‘Oh you!’ and provides somebody slightly punch within the arm, you realize, like a joke-around, she goes, ‘Oh you!’ and he or she reaches over and he or she bites me — on my arm.”
Douglas mentioned he screamed in ache.
“She’s like jokey and I am taking a look at her, ‘I do not know, man’ — I am pondering ‘this may very well be tough’ and he or she appears and I’m going again and he or she’s damaged the pores and skin,” he recalled.
From then on, it was a case of as soon as bitten, twice shy for the movie icon. When he acquired again to Hollywood, he mentioned, he broke down in tears in entrance of movie bosses.
“I break down in tears and say, ‘I am unable to go to the jungle along with her — she bit me within the arm!’ I mentioned, ‘I am unable to do it!’”
He mentioned the studio executives agreed to not solid Winger.
CNN has reached out to representatives of Winger and Zemeckis for remark.
Douglas beforehand mentioned in a 2019 interview with Selection that Winger was dismissed from the movie amid fears she was not a “staff participant.”
Turner spoke concerning the alleged chew in her 2008 autobiography “Ship Your self Roses.”
Detailing her expertise of working with Douglas, she wrote: “He (Douglas) initially supposed to have Debra Winger within the position of Joan, however they did not appear to get alongside in addition to he’d hoped. They met to debate it at a Mexican restaurant and he or she bit him, or so he mentioned.”