[2012, on
Cocktail (1988)] My audition for that was wearing the many and various bikinis, which... I'd say they're really just strings tied different ways. No, that was actually a really complicated story about the '80s and power and money, and it was really re-edited where they completely lost my character's backstory - her low self-esteem, who her father was, why she was this person that she was - but it was obviously a really successful movie, if not as good as it could've been. It was written by the guy who wrote
Fort Apache (The Bronx) (1981) [
Heywood Gould], and it was a much darker movie, but Disney took it, re-shot about a third of it, and turned it into flipping the bottles and this and that. But it was my first really big movie, and I'm making out with
Tom Cruise, who is a really good kisser. And we're in Jamaica! Again, it was one of those things where I had to pinch myself. I couldn't believe it. It was a great opportunity to me. And as embarrassed as I was with all those little bikinis, now I'm so glad. I'm all like, "Yep, that's me. That's me walking down those stairs with that butt hanging out right in Tom's face. That is me". But we had a really great time. And Tom was so much fun, just a ball to work with, both on and off camera. We'd go to bars in Jamaica, listen to music and hang out. Everybody was great.
Bryan Brown was there, with his beautiful wife,
Rachel Ward. It was a lot of fun with a great group of people, and it was a really successful movie.
