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The Renegades Who Made A Woman Under the Influence
The costumer cooked spaghetti. A painter became a gaffer. And “everybody got upset with everybody.”
A Woman Under the Influence was made for roughly $1 million in 1974’s dollars (half of which reportedly came from actor Peter Falk), and Cassevetes’ immersive methods required much of the cast and crew to fancy themselves jacks of all trades. Rowlands’s Mabel Longhetti serves it to the coworkers her husband Nick (Falk) brings home after a long overnight construction job that hampered the romantic date they had planned. Kirsten Dunst, Laura Dern, Cate Blanchett, Dakota Johnson, Aubrey Plaza, Kathryn Hahn, Carrie Coon, Carmen Ejogo, Kristen Stewart, and Julie Delpy have all named Rowlands among their chief influences.
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