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Kim Basinger Gives Rare Interview on ‘9½ Weeks’ Feud Rumors, Intimacy Coordinators and Why She’s Not Retired: I’m ‘Picky’ and There’s ‘A Lot of Bad Material’

Kim Basinger gives a rare interview to Variety about her Oscar win, her love for Alec Baldwin and the emotional toll of '9½ Weeks.'

Confidential.” She was tired of playing the siren roles that had defined her — from a Bond girl in “Never Say Never Again” to a New York gallery owner in the erotic classic “9½ Weeks” to a barefoot Vicki Vale running through the streets of Gotham City in Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman.” Like Marilyn Monroe before her and Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson after, Basinger — who grew up in Georgia — shed the expectations of her looks and her tabloid-friendly personal life (in addition to Baldwin, former lovers included Prince, “Batman” producer Jon Peters and Richard Gere) and proved that she deserved a crack at the meaty roles. The filmmakers suddenly pursuing her included some of the industry’s best, such as Barry Levinson, who cast her opposite Robert Redford in the baseball drama “The Natural,” and Adrian Lyne, who begged her to star in the sexually charged “9½ Weeks.”

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