I watched her argue with Quentin, intelligently and successfully, for wardrobe changes and even dialogue rewrites.
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When it came time for real rehearsals and filming, I got to see Uma give a master class in being a movie star and leader on the set. “But thank you for speaking up,” she said. Because he’s got the power to fire you.”Īnd she told me she didn’t want that to happen. He’ll concede you something if it’s to make the film better. “You have to learn to be quiet, speak less. “No, I don’t mean like that,” she said, still speaking in that calm, soothing voice. “I don’t have to manipulate nobody,” I said.
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“What you need to do is learn how to manipulate the situation better. And it’s like, you know, we’re not doing anything right.” “Well, God,” I sputtered, “I mean, we’re working our f-cking asses off. He doesn’t mean anything by it, it’s just how he gets down.” She repeated in her calm, meditative voice, “I’ve worked with him. She put her arm on my shoulder and those beautiful eyes of hers locked on mine. And finally Quentin sort of said he appreciated the work but he wanted us all to do our best and to trust him. I kept sputtering, thinking I was taking a stand for everyone. Lucy grabbed my hand and was trying to do a kind of acupressure on me, whispering, “Calm down. “Are we f-cking doing anything right? Goddamn.” Everyone gasped. “Is this a ‘beat us up’ contest?” I asked. He said we should get here at 8:30, a half hour early, if we wanted to do all that.Īnd I lost it on him. Something about us lollygagging in the morning, taking too long to suit up and gabbing over coffee. I was sitting between cute little Lucy and sweet Uma, and I was ready for a high five for all of us. Third Friday, I was so proud of all that our team had accomplished. Second week, we got the same thing after we busted our asses. The first week Quentin cut into us, telling us we had to work harder. “Don’t worry,” I said, “it’ll come off.” She went to China to film for a month, and when I saw her again, I walked right past her.
We’d eat slice after slice of cheap pizza, loving every bit of it.Īt first, Uma was frustrated because all the other women on the film were dropping weight so quickly with the intense training. “Vivica,” she said one day, “I think he’s in love.” She and I were on strict diets, and we had a ritual of spending our one cheat day a week hanging out at this bowling alley Maya loved. Of all the girls on set, I think Uma liked me best because of her kids. Uma was three months out after having her gorgeous baby boy, Roan, and she also brought her equally beautiful four-year-old, Maya, along. I thought I was in the damn Olympics or something. If you didn’t walk in the door between 8:55 and 8:59, you were in trouble at 9:01. It was nine to five, Monday through Friday. Piece of cake.įor three months, Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, and I spent eight hours a day studying martial arts at a gym they put together in Culver City. “No problem,” I said, thinking back to my high school athlete days. They wanted workers on the straight and narrow, and any red flags could put me out of the running.
They were tired of problem actors and had dealt with their spoiled stars shutting down productions because of heroin problems.
This was a time in film when studios were not playing. It could easily be mistaken for the home of a spoiled brat who would never follow direction. It was straight out of Dynasty, with a double staircase and huge chandelier right when you walked in. I’d invested in real estate, was doing very well, thank you, and this place frankly looked like a diva lived there. The truth was that I was living in a huge 8,000-square-foot mansion in Tarzana. “Just promise me, Quentin.” He did, and I’m sure he suspected I was a hoarder or some crazy person living in a tiny house. “Promise me you won’t hold my house against me?” The 15-minute meeting stretched to an hour and a half, until he said, “I’m going to send you a scene and I’m going to come to your house and we’ll work through it together.” I talked about Pam Grier and how much I loved her, and Richard Roundtree, who’d played my dad on Generations. Quentin loves telling stories, and if he likes you, oh, he is going to talk.
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