Gina Gershon is opening up about turning down a role in Friday the 13th Part 2.
The 63-year-old actress shares in a new interview that she was offered a part in the 1981 horror film, but trusting her gut led to her saying no.
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“I was offered a lead in that movie,” she recalled to Fox News Digital. “And, of course, I was so excited to act in movies, but it definitely felt kind of exploitative to me and a little silly that right before she gets killed, her top has to come off.”
“Listen, I was really lucky that I had a father who really taught me how to believe in my own decisions,” Gina added. “It wasn’t like I had to rebel against my family. I remember asking him about it, thinking he was going to say, ‘No daughter of mine is going to do that!’ And he said, ‘It’s your body. If you’re comfortable with it, I’m comfortable with it.’”
“When I sat and thought about it, I just thought, ‘I don’t really want to do this,’” she said. “I wasn’t comfortable with it. It seemed silly to me. Not that I had anything against nudity — I grew up on European films — but only if it makes sense for the character and the story. But when it just seems silly, I don’t know. It just felt like it was something that wasn’t for me.”
She also opened up about turning down the role in her new memoir, “AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs.”
“At the time, those kinds of slasher movies always had girls dying with their breasts exposed. My character would be killed by a stake through the heart, blood dripping down her t-ts. That seemed pretty lame to me: exploitation 101,” she wrote.
In the end, after turning down the role, Gina she praised her dad for teaching her lessons.
“My dad may have died too soon, but he taught me many valuable lessons in the 19 years I had with him,” she said in her book. “Mainly, he taught me to trust myself in making my own decisions.”
“This theme of trusting my gut kept showing up in my life,” Gina added.
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