They say there are no lessons in how to be a star.
Well, just imagine how little guidance you get about how to be a sexual icon.
I had to figure that one out on the job. Certainly, when I agreed to play a raunchy femme fatale in my first film, Body Heat, I didn’t have a clue that it would unleash so much sexual energy.
At 25, all I knew was that I didn’t want to be labelled a porn star in my first movie. It was a thin line and it could have gone either way. But, in the end, the film’s realistic treatment of sex marked a new line of demarcation – between an era of buttoned-up sex and an era with fewer sexual boundaries.
Even now, Body Heat always ranks in the top-ten lists of the world’s sexiest movies. At the time we made it, more than 25 years ago, I was unsure of my own sexual power. But I didn’t have a problem with the explicit scenes of nudity and love-making.
I’d already learned a very different attitude to sex from the American norm because I’d spent my late teens in Britain, where it wasn’t a shameful, hide-it-inthecloset thing.
To me, sexuality is a way of thinking; it’s like turning on a tap. Hell, I can even be sexy as a cartoon rabbit – as I think I proved in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when I voiced the character of Jessica Rabbit, even though I was nine months pregnant.
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