A part like that is difficult to get as an established actress, let alone as a virtual unknown.” “Not only was Matty a fantastic character in a truly great film,” Turner said in a 2018 interview, “she was at the centre of the film. While the New Hollywood era had previously centred tortured male protagonists, Body Heat put Kathleen Turner’s Matty Walker in a position of dominance over the film’s spluttering, dumbstruck male characters. But they had an undeniably seductive effect on audiences, wearing their sleaze on their sleeve and giving women complex roles that placed the power firmly in their sweaty, post-coital palms. Many films that emerged during the erotic thriller boom were dismissed as misogynistic – the products of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas’s coke-fuelled, cum-stained scribblings.
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