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FILM · 1995 · USA

Jade

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21 Interesting Facts About Jade

Interesting Facts (13)

  1. #001

    Linda Fiorentino initially turned down the script because she did not want to play a prostitute. She changed her mind when the character was changed through a rewrite.

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  2. #002

    O. J. Simpson's Trial of the Century ended with a not-guilty verdict, and he had announced to the press that he would watch this film.

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  3. #003

    Ken King was a 29-year veteran San Francisco Police detective during the production. He used all of his vacation time to work on this production.

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  4. #004

    Warren Beatty turned down the role of David Corelli.

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  5. #005

    While investigating Kyle's murder, David Corelli finds a cufflink in Kyle Medford's house. The cufflink is a clue, indicating that he knows, or already knew, who really killed Kyle: his friend Matt, the husband of Kyle's ex-girlfriend. Originally, after Corelli's conversation with the California governor, Matt tells Katrina that he killed Kyle because he was blackmailing them with pictures of her having sex with other men. In the director's cut, Corelli records the conversation between Matt and Katrina, meaning he knows or already knew and needed to be sure. Corelli then gets out of his car to arrest Matt for the murder.

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  6. #006

    Ken King, a senior SFPD officer, was also the film's technical advisor.

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  7. #007

    This is the last film in Joe Eszterhas's unofficial "Corelli Trilogy." In Basic Instinct (1992), Wayne Knight played John Corelli. In Sliver (1993), José Rey played Detective Corelli. Both characters are Assistant District Attorneys in San Francisco.

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  8. #008

    John Loftus, listed in the credits as one of the "cops," was a real-life police officer.

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  9. #009

    J.T. Walsh was considered to play the governor because he had worked with William Friedkin a year earlier on Blue Chips (1994).

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  10. #010

    In an interview, Michael Biehn claimed that director William Friedkin slapped Angie Everhart at one point.

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  11. #011

    Michael Biehn stated in interviews several times that he did not like the film, claiming the script made little sense on the page as well as on screen.

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  12. #012

    Jade marked Mary Christina Brown's debut.

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  13. #013

    The Italian censorship visa # 90489 was issued on 9 November 1995.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #014

    Angie Everhart initially filmed the entire nude scene lying on the morgue table, but then changed her mind about using it. So they had to reshoot the body shots with a stand-in. She later admitted she should have used her own footage, because people had not believed her when she said it was a double. The footage now circulates online and is said to be hers.

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Characters & Cast (6)

  1. #015

    This was David Caruso's second starring role of 1995, following Kiss of Death (1995). Both films were box-office disasters. Caruso had left NYPD Blue (1993) to take these roles. His career never recovered, and he nearly quit acting until he was chosen to lead CSI Miami (2002).

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  2. #016

    In the theatrical cut, Chazz Palminteri's character Matt Gavin gets away with murdering billionaire Kyle Medford, who was revealed to be blackmailing him and his wife Katrina, played by Linda Fiorentino, with photos of her having sex with other men. In the director's cut, however, his friend San Francisco prosecutor David Corelli, played by David Caruso, has recorded the conversation between Matt and Katrina about Medford and steps out of the car to arrest his best friend Matt.

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  3. #017

    Kenneth Branagh was the first choice for the role of Matt Gavin.

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  4. #018

    Maria Ford was initially cast for the role of Patrice but turned down the offer.

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  5. #019

    The film's critical and financial failure deeply upset William Friedkin. He felt it contained some of his best work as a director, and the reaction made him feel he had disappointed the cast and crew, especially his wife Sherry Lansing, who had gotten him the job in the first place.

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  6. #020

    Maria Ford auditioned but turned down the role of Patrice.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #021

    James Horner also had scores in other films that same year, including Braveheart (1995), Apollo 13 (1995), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995) and Balto (1995). His score for this film is confused with Loreena McKennitt's song The Mystic's Dream and resembles his other cues in Red Heat (1988) and Thunderheart (1992). Horner was chosen partly by the studio, which loved his music for Braveheart and for Mel Gibson. William Friedkin also wanted the chance to work with Horner because he admired his work on other films.

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