The Last Seduction (1994)
(Bill Pullman) While teaching at the Montana State
University one of his students was director John Dahl
- Subsequently Dahl gave him a role in his film Last
Seduction, The (1994)
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Directed by... John Dahl

Written By... Steve Barancik

Budget  $2.5m (USA)

Gross  $6.138m (USA)
 

USA November 1994

Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy... Linda Fiorentino
Mike Swale... Peter Berg
Clay Gregory... Bill Pullman
 

First ever episode of Sex and the City:
 

Carrie:	You think it's really possible to pull off this whole women-having-sex-like-men thing?
Samantha:	You're forgetting The Last Seduction!
Carrie:	You're obsessed with that movie!
Miranda:	Okay!! Linda Fiorentino fucking that guy up against the wall...
Samantha:	... and never having one of those oh-my-God-what-have-I-done epiphanies!
Charlotte:	I hated that movie!

Poor year for Oscars, would have been nominated and likely won if movie hadn't premiered on HBO already (originally made for TV).

At one point, Bridget gives her name as "Mrs. Neff." This is a reference to Double Indemnity (1944).

Linda Fiorentino, raised as a nice Catholic girl, described the experience of playing Bridget as "therapeutic."

The Last Seduction was originally made for U.S. pay TV, and then was deemed marketable as a theatrical release. It hit big and grew hot with an Oscar scandal. Though most agreed Linda Fiorentino's performance was Oscar-worthy, Academy rules prohibited nominating any film that had appeared on TV first. Eventually the case was taken to court, and the producers lost. Still the heat was there. "I first figured out something was going on when I went to the doctor's office for an insurance physical," she says. "I'm sitting in the waiting room and saw my picture in about five magazines, and I said, `I think my life just changed.' I mean, I only read magazines in doctors' offices, that's how nuts my life has been. People I knew were telling me what was going on, and it was like, `Oh really? I gotta go.'"

"I'm not sure I am free or uninhibited," Fiorentino says. "It's part of the process. After the fact, I freak out. At the end of the day... Oh my God! But if you walk on the set and you're inhibited and freaked out, it affects everybody on the set."

"On The Last Seduction (during the "fence scene") there was kind of a role reversal going on. Usually it's the actress who's saying to the director, like, `I don't wanna do this, it's pornographic, and blah blah blah and I don't want to take my clothes off and my thighs look really fat...' And in this case, Peter Berg was doing that. "John Dahl was freaking out saying `You talk to him, Lin.' I said `C'mon, we're losing the light!' and threw him against the fence. I try to let anything that's going on into the process," she says of her approach. "I don't pretend there's not a crew, I don't pretend I'm not having a hard time with this person or a great time with that person. It's all me."

In the new Special Edition DVD of Dogma, firebrand fan favorite Kevin Smith lobs a few verbal grenades at DOGMA costar Linda Fiorentino. In the commentary of the 1999 film, Smith refers to the actress as "the lovely and warm Linda Fiorentino,” and there’s more than a little sarcasm in his voice.  "Not the easiest person in the world to work with," Smith added. "I stand alone on those comments. I'm the only one who politically will make that move." He even went as far as to lament he didn’t cast Janeane Garofalo in Fiorentino’s role.   "I wish I had cast her in the lead,” Smith said. “She was a real joy to work with, a lot of fun and I really dug her."