FILM · 1996
Striptease
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- #001
Demi Moore was called back to reshoot some scenes and had to wear a wig because she had already shaved her head for G.I. Jane (1997).
- #002
Burt Reynolds was not initially sought by the production for the role of Congressman David Dilbeck. Reynolds wanted the part badly, so he personally contacted Castle Rock Entertainment studio head Rob Reiner and traveled to Miami, Florida, to audition. He took a pay cut far below the salary he had commanded at the height of his career.
- #003
Demi Moore's record $12.5 million fee became possible after a bidding war broke out between the producers of this film and those of G.I. Jane (1997), each of whom wanted her to star in their film first. The executives behind Striptease won when they offered Moore more money than the other.
- #004
Last-minute edits were made after preview audiences laughed at the wrong parts.
- #005
Burt Reynolds based his character and performance on real-life politicians he had known since his early years through his father, a police chief in Florida.
- #006
The little girl who plays Demi Moore's daughter in the film is actually her real-life daughter, Rumer Willis.
- #007
The Israeli dancer is named after the politician (and later Prime Minister of Israel) Ariel Sharon, who is male in this instance.
- #008
Michael Caine, Gene Hackman and Donald Sutherland turned down the role of Congressman David Dilbeck.
- #009
The video store scene contains many references to other Castle Rock Entertainment films.
- #010
This film is considered Burt Reynolds's big comeback even though he had appeared in both The Player (1992) and Cop & ½ (1993). This is due to the attention the film received and the type of character he played. His role in The Player (1992) was also a brief part as one of an ensemble, while Cop & ½ (1993) was essentially a children's film.
- #011
The film's original trailer shows a low-angle shot of Ving Rhames and Pandora Peaks. This shot does not appear in the film because it took place in the film's original climax, which was reshot after being shown to a preview audience. The final scene was originally set in a sugarcane field. After preview audiences were uncomfortable with the scene, it was rewritten and reshot in a sugar shack. The final shots of the original sequence, showing a character being taken away in handcuffs, are still visible.
- #012
The interior of the strip club was built in a ballroom dance studio at a strip mall in Ft. Lauderdale.
- #013
The club's particularly well-equipped dancer, Urbana Sprawl, is named as a reference to urban sprawl (the unrestricted spread of cities and suburbs into wild areas), an environmental cause dear to the author of the source novel, Carl Hiaasen.
- #014
This film, which drew critical criticism, was not a comeback for Burt Reynolds. His comeback came the following year with Boogie Nights (1997), which earned him an Oscar nomination. However, rather than appearing as an older character actor in big-budget films, he had more freedom to pursue his own films, such as the low-budget Hard Time series, which also allowed him to work again with his former co-director Hal Needham.
- #015
The book that limousine driver Pierre (Anthony Jones) reads at 1:24:55 while waiting for Demi Moore's second dance on the Senator's boat is Volume 9 of Mission Earth: "Villainy Victorious", by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
- #016
When Shad (Ving Rhames) visits the video store, a clear image of the poster for The Freshman (1990), also written and directed by Andrew Bergman, appears.
- #017
Lieutenant Garcia is the only person Shad does not correct when he calls the two girls, Monique Jr. and Urbana, strippers. Shad's lawyer and Malcolm called Erin a stripper (at different points in the film). Shad told them they were dancers, not strippers.
- #018
Rena Riffel also plays a stripper in Showgirls (1995).
- #019
Striptease was released only a year after the similarly themed Showgirls (1995), which had been savaged by critics and flopped at the box office. Striptease did the same and is generally regarded as one of the roles that ended Demi Moore's career.
- #020
Striptease was featured in the 192nd episode of the comedy podcast Bu Nasıl Yapıldı?
- #021
A "loop group" in New York City recorded background voices for various scenes. These performers are included in the residual payments.
- #022
Two members of the film's cast had previously worked with Demi Moore's then-husband Bruce Willis. Ving Rhames, who plays the bodyguard Shad and is also one of Erin's friends, had previously appeared with Willis in Pulp Fiction (1994). Willis played Butch Coolidge, while Rhames played crime boss Marsellus Wallace. Robert Patrick, who plays Darrell Grant, appeared with Willis in Die Hard 2 (1990); Patrick played O'Riley, one of Colonel Stuart's mercenary terrorists, while Willis played the series hero John McClane.
- #023
This is one of the few later films in which Burt Reynolds appears completely clean-shaven, without his trademark mustache; he had spent the first fifteen years of his career, mostly in television and early films such as Deliverance (1972), White Lightning (1973) and The Longest Yard (1974), clean-shaven. Around this time, the only other occasion he was clean-shaven was at the end of Breaking In (1989).
- #024
This was Pandora Peaks's second and final film credit.
- #025
Coincidentally, cast member Frances Fisher's (Donna Garcia) real-life daughter, Francesca Eastwood, dated Harry Morton, who also dated Demi Moore and her daughter Rumer Willis.
- #026
Maria Ford was considered for the role of Tiffany.
- #027
This was Daphnee Duplaix's debut.
- #028
When Shad dips the dead cockroach into the bathtub full of yogurt, the insect sinks down frothing. In real life it would not do this, because the small shell was too insignificant for this effect to occur. And a dead cockroach does not sink down like a mini Titanic because it has almost no weight.
- #029
Daphnee Duplaix is of French origin.
- #030
The two feature films with similar subject matter and similar titles, released roughly a decade apart, the documentary Stripper (1985) and the comedy-drama Striptease (1996), were both distributed by the 20th Century Fox studio. One crew and cast member, re-recording mixer Lee Dichter, worked on both pictures.
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