“I feel like I have worked with him, I know what it is like. Still, she says, she doesn’t hope to work with the director again. He was lecturing at a filmmaking school and thought he would stop by and say, ‘Hi.’ I thought it was really sweet.” “He said, ‘How you doing?,’ which was really great. Oddly enough, Vernon said, months after she completed “Malcolm X” she was in Rome filming a comedy, “Jackpot.” One morning, she heard a loud knock at her trailer door. Lee, Vernon said, told her he didn’t want to risk “any pre-publicity controversy that I am a white woman and Malcolm’s love interest. She finds the only way to prove herself innocent is to investigate on her own despite all obstacles. Liz wakes up in Hawaii on her 10th anniversary and finds her husband is missing, and she has been accused of his murder. With AnnaLynne McCord, Kate Vernon, Philip Boyd, Jay Pickett. “I am opposite Denzel and I do play his love interest in the first third of the film,” she said. Anniversary Nightmare: Directed by Michael Feifer. Nor is there a photo of her in the press kit. Vernon said she was hurt when she learned she would not be included in the recent “Malcolm X” press junket. What resulted is that he cut the scene in half.” “I am trapped in this car and I am fighting with Spike to honor my contract. “This argument broke out between Spike and I,” she said. But Lee, she said, told her the scene would only work if she showed her breasts. Vernon said she was supposed to remove her shirt, but only her shoulders would be exposed in the scene. “The family of Malcolm X didn’t want any nudity.”īut then came the time to shoot Malcolm and Sophia’s love scene in the back seat of a Cadillac. “In my contract, we agreed no nudity,” Vernon said. She recalled one particularly heated argument with Lee. But, she added, “it was like we were all afraid to say, ‘Did you have problems with Spike?’ It was almost like people were afraid to say, ‘You too?’ ” Vernon said she discussed her difficulties with several of the African-American male and female actors. I can’t figure out the psychology of Spike and I tried to.” In that way it was terribly uncomfortable. I am speaking about my experience with him, not everyone’s experience. “I found that to be very uncomfortable because I felt like I couldn’t go to Spike. “Spike was in the corner sort of going through the script watching,” she said. Vernon said she and Washington ended up working out their scenes during the rehearsals.
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