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She appeared in high-school plays and went to NYU to beef up on literature.

It is worth mentioning that Killer Joe, which opens in limited release on July 27, is rated NC-17.įor as long as she can remember, Gershon always knew that she wanted to be an actress. Gershon was interested, until she got to the final scene-where Sharla had to simulate oral sex on a chicken bone-and decided she couldn’t do that onstage eight times a week. In 1998, when Tracy Letts wrote Killer Joe, he wanted Gershon to play the character in the original stage production off-Broadway. I’m surprised she even opened that up with you, because it looks like it is hers.”įriedkin had considered a number of actresses for the role, but he was turned off when he had meetings with them and their first question was, “How are you going to handle the nudity?” Gershon never asked that question, but she did have reservations about something else. “It was clear that Sharla would not be shaved. “The fact is, her vaginal area was shaved,” Friedkin said later, when reached by phone. I felt like I was wearing a big fur bikini.” It says a lot when you see that-it's gnarly, right!? That feralness. “More importantly, it would be starting the character out with a lie. I was scared he was going to say, ‘Forget the merkin.’ I definitely needed the merkin.” How come? “I felt more protected,” she said. “I showed it to Billy, and he was like, ‘What?!’ I think it was for a black person. (For the uninitiated, a merkin is a stage prop that an actor sometimes wears-like a wig-over her genitals.) To find the right look, Gershon had merkins shipped in from all over the country to the film’s New Orleans set. She loves merkins so much that she even wrote a song about them that she hopes to one day perform for a Funny or Die music video. Luckily for her Method-acting ways, one of Gershon’s obsessions is merkins. But one chapter trumps them all: Gershon as Cristal, the weathered Las Vegas dancer who begrudgingly takes Elizabeth Berkley under her boa in Showgirls and had the most famous line in the film: “You see, darling. Not to be mistaken with Gershon, tabloid sensation, who denied knowing Bill Clinton, after a Vanity Fair item linked them as a couple in 2008. Don’t forget Gershon, the children’s book author. There was also Gershon, the actress turned singer, who released a CD and appeared on Broadway several times. There would be the part about Gershon, the edgy starlet, who made a splash in the Wachowskis’ directorial debut, the 1996 lesbian mob movie, Bound. If this were an autobiography, it would include other chapters. Gershon asked the messenger to take a seat. As her deadline passed, Gershon kept making corrections. Cleo, who shares a bed with his owner, is safely back in her life now, and he curls up with Gershon on the book cover-if the book ever gets to print.

Just a funny one about how, years ago, Gershon lost her cat, Cleo, after the end of an eight-year relationship and became obsessed with finding him. “I’ll fix it in my audio book.” The only thing that doesn’t need correcting, it seemed, was the title: In Search of Cleo: How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind. “FUCK!” she said, looking at a not-so-perfect passage. Armed with a red pen and a stack of loose-leaf manuscript pages in her lap, Gershon sifted through her entire book, catching many grammatical errors and spicing up jokes. Instead, I became a member of her proofreading team.

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It was maybe 10 minutes until noon.Ī series of frantic phone calls to her publisher confirmed that-yes, indeed-this deadline was final, so the interview would have to wait.

She told me so when I arrived at our recent interview and she had just discovered that the revisions of her new memoir were due at noon, and she hadn’t even started them yet.