After 40 years in the entertainment business, Kathleen Turner isn’t holding
back her negative feelings toward Burt Reynolds from the actors’ work
together on the 1988 movie “Switching Channels.”
“Working with
Burt Reynolds was terrible,” the 64-year-old actress said in an interview
with Vulture published Tuesday. “The first day Burt came in he made me cry.
He said something about not taking second place to a woman. His behavior was
shocking. It never occurred to me that I wasn’t someone’s equal.”
She continued, “I left the room sobbing. I called my husband and
said, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ He said, ‘You just do the job.’ It got to
be very hostile because the crew began taking sides. But as for the
performance, I was able to put the negativity aside. I’m not convinced Burt
was.”
The hard feelings are apparently mutual, as Reynolds, 82,
told Andy Cohen earlier this year that Turner was the most overrated
actor of the ’70s and ’80s.
Speaking with Vulture,
Turner also opened up about being a “sexual target” following her role in
the 1981 film “Body Heat.”
“I understood later, from Michael Douglas, that there was a
competition between him and Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty about who would
get me first,” she said, adding, “None of them did, by the by.”
Despite
the “competition” for Turner’s affections, she says she loved working
alongside Douglas and Nicholson during her career.
