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Glenn Close explains why she didn't want to re-shoot the ending of ‘Fatal Attraction' which tested badly with audiences.

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00:00The interesting thing in the book and probably a lot of people who know that movie don't know this so
00:04Obviously a big hit, but the original ending people audiences didn't like the original ending. Oh my god
00:12Yes, well when I first read the script it was a very film noir
00:17It ended with we had this fight his
00:22Fingerprints were on the knife and then I slit my throat
00:26To the to Madame Butterfly, you know
00:30and
00:31Great and then he goes off to jail
00:35Well
00:43And they did this this long testing thing which was kind of new it was testing testing testing the audiences
00:52Alex forest made them so angry that they came back
00:58Six months after we had finished the movie and said we're going to reshoot it and I said I'm not
01:03going to do it
01:03I don't my my character they wanted
01:07They wanted me to
01:10To come in with a knife. They wanted me to attack the wife's I'm not going to do it. She's
01:13not a psychopath. She's a pathetic
01:16out-of-control
01:18woman and I fought and fought and fought and fought so I'm going to tell this story so I
01:23I
01:24Was in this meeting with Michael and Sherry Lansing and our other producer Stanley Chaffee and I and and aging
01:32I said I literally said I'm not going to do it
01:36You know how would you feel how would you feel somebody's doing that to your character
01:43Michael kind of lay back and he said babe
01:47I'm a whore
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