WATERS: She was lovely and she got the movie greenlit immediately. “You’re an A-movie actress and he’s a B-movie director!” I said, “He’s made films that have touched and moved people all over the world!” TURNER: I said, “As long as you’re going to do it this way, then yes.” I walked into a storm of resistance, from agents, friends, actors, everyone. WATERS: Every one of my movies is satire of a genre. I called John and said, “Is this a gorefest or a comedy?” He said, “Let me come and talk to you.” About four hours later he shows up at my door in New York. I’m talking to my husband and saying, “You won’t believe this one.” But I went back and read it again. So I went back and read further until she kills the guy with the air conditioner and said, “No, no, no.” Threw it down again. KATHLEEN TURNER: I got to the point where she pulls the boy’s liver out with the poker iron and I went, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.” Threw that one down, went about my way. Because its based on a true story, the movie (with actors and a story) is sometimes interrupted by the. The Baltimore-based Waters sent the script, which also included a scene in which Beverly removes a teenager’s liver with a fire poker, to Romancing the Stone and Prizzi’s Honor star Kathleen Turner. This crazy heist movie is told in a very original way.
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