Mallory Rubin

Meryl Hemingway turned it down.

And then it was Demi Moore versus Sharon Stone and Sharon Stone won.

Yeah, I didn't know what to make of that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Allegedly, in one of the original scripts, Nick Curran was originally a lesbian cop written with Kathleen Turner in mind, and then they switched it.

Paul Verhoeven was supposed to direct Black Rain.

which will be on the rewatchables at some point in 2026.

But dropped out to do Total Recall.

And then I thought this was amazing.

Verhoeven wanted Tom Berringer for Robocop and Basic Instinct.

And Berringer's like, no thanks.

You're a weird pervy Dutch guy and I don't want to do a movie with you.

I'll be doing Sniper instead.

Yeah.

Milos Forman was the first choice to direct didn't do it and then I don't know what to believe with who was considered for Nick it was basically every white actor from 1992 the two other ones that were really big were Linda Fiorentino as Beth and this is insane but Brooke Shields as Roxy yeah saw that you don't want to comment

It's just, there's no way.

Yeah.

She just never would have done it.