According to an excerpt published by The Hollywood Reporter of a new biography of former Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing, the movie studio was worried about casting the then-relatively unknown young actress. In the early 2000s, she was dating (and later married) Billy Bob Thornton and carried his blood around her neck in a vial, and there were rumors that she was using drugs.
“She definitely had some baggage and something of a dark reputation,” director Simon West said in the book. “Funnily enough, that was one of my selling points: This trouble and dangerous aspect in her reputation actually helped the character.”
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