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"That story could get made because it's not about an older man - it's really about those two girls."
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"I don't think that movie would be made today, period," she notes, adding that her 2017 novel, Bats*** Black, is closer to the way she'd approach Poison Ivy now. But she's well aware that the age gap in those scenes would make Poison Ivy a non-starter in contemporary Hollywood, no matter how many intimacy coordinators or body doubles were involved behind the camera. Shea says that she used body doubles for some of the movie's more explicit moments, like a rain-soaked love scene between Ivy and Darryl. Poison Ivy was a big opportunity for her to do that and to leave the whole little kid thing behind."
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She wanted to prove herself and show the world the professional actor and person that she is. I think it was all just very easy for Drew: she figured the character out right away and was able to channel that energy. "She was like, 'Stop it, Katt, stop.' She thought it was ridiculous. "She was just like, 'Oh boy, let's do it!' Meanwhile, Tom is going: 'Oh my god, oh my god.' His discomfort is so palpable in the film."īarrymore had so few inhibitions about the sex scenes that Shea felt the need to be "really protective" as a result - which frustrated her star.
"Drew was as happy as could she," the director says, adding that the actress was sober throughout the Poison Ivy shoot. In contrast to Skerritt, Shea remembers that Barrymore was game for anything. We tried to make it fun and not serious, and I think he appreciated that." "He told me at one point: 'I could never do this with another director.' I guess it's because I had a sense of humor about it. The Top Gun scene-stealer was in his late 50s when the film was shot, and Shea says that he had serious concerns about filming intimate moments with an actress forty years his junior. And those eyebrows shot up even further when viewers saw the film's trailers, which sold it as Fatal Attraction for the high school set - complete with torrid sex scenes that paired her with a much older actor, Tom Skerritt, who played Sylvie's father, Darryl, whose marriage with invalid wife, Georgie (Cheryl Ladd), is on the rocks. But she did great! She's an absolute pro, and that's been proven many, many times over."īarrymore's Lolita-like makeover raised eyebrows ahead of Poison Ivy's release. "What I was worried about was whether she could hold it together, because of what she went through as a tween. "I thought her baggage was perfect for the role," says the 63-year-old filmmaker, who got her start directing '80s-era Roger Corman productions like Stripped to Kill. That kind of baggage might have scared away another director, but Shea tells Yahoo Entertainment that it only made her more convinced that Barrymore was her Ivy, a sultry high-schooler who moves in with her best friend, Sylvie ( Roseanne star Sara Gilbert), and proceeds to make herself a little too at home.
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Written and directed by Katt Shea, the erotic thriller marked Barrymore's return to the big screen after a series of career setbacks and a highly publicized struggle with drugs and alcohol. Ten years later, the sixteen-year-old star gave those same moviegoers a serious case of whiplash when she appeared as a teen seductress in Poison Ivy, which premiered in theaters on May 8, 1992. When multiplex audiences first met Drew Barrymore, she was a cherubic six-year-old scene-stealer in Steven Spielberg's 1982 family blockbuster, E.T. (Photo: Kimberly Wright / ©New Line / Courtesy Everett Collection) Drew Barrymore and Sara Gilbert in Katt Shea's 1992 cult hit, Poison Ivy.