Dency Richards has no regrets about “Showgirls.''
The “Wild Things” star told fans at New York Comic Con this week that he auditioned for the role that was eventually played by Elizabeth Berkley, but ultimately decided he was “lucky” not to get it. He said he did. person reported.
Although the film is now viewed by some as a cult classic, it was widely panned by critics and a box office flop, earning only $37.8 million against a $45 million budget.
“I auditioned for 'Showgirls'”' And I didn't understand it, but that was probably a blessing in disguise,” she said.
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Dency Richards has no regrets about not being cast in 1995's Showgirls. (Christopher Polk/Variety, via Getty Images)
But Richards said that audition likely led to her role in 1997's Starship Troopers.
“I think that's why he's doing it. [director Paul Verhoeven] He took me to the audition for “Starship.” It was last minute,” she told the audience during a panel discussion with the Starship Troopers cast.
“I auditioned for 'Showgirls' and didn't get it, which was probably a blessing in disguise.”
An audience member asked the cast what other Paul Verhoeven films they would have liked to have appeared in.
In addition to “Starship Troopers'' and “Showgirls,'' Verhoeven also directed “Total Recall,'' “Robocop,'' and “Basic Instinct.''
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Denise Richards on the set of “Starship Troopers.'' (TriStar Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
Speaking at a sold-out screening of “Showgirls'' at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles earlier this year, Ms. Berkeley told the audience that before its release, her mother asked her agent if the film could be nominated for an Academy Award. That's what it means. to Hollywood Reporter.
“Every girl in Hollywood has fought for this role,” she said. “So it wasn't strange to ask.”
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Denise Richards reunited with the Starship Troopers cast at New York Comic-Con on Thursday. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images, ReedPop)
She added that the film “really pushed the boundaries of what it was then, and now it's accepted – not misunderstood – really accepted.”
“You were standing by the movie,” she told the audience. “You always believed in me, and so did I, and for that I am forever grateful.”
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Like “Showgirls,'' “Starship Troopers,'' which portrayed Richards as an ambitious pilot in a futuristic dystopian world, struggled at the box office but became a cult classic in its own right.
