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00:04Alex!
00:05Alex!
00:06Come on!
00:06There you!
00:07You hear me?
00:08There you are!
00:11You'd like me to do it, wouldn't you?
00:13Minute!
00:14Minute!
00:14You're listening to me dead!
00:16Oh!
00:17Yes!
00:18Malena!
00:21Malena!
00:22Why ruin your neat little existence, Alex?
00:25Why?
00:26Stop that, you crazy bitch!
00:29Fucker!
00:29I hate you!
00:31I'll do it!
00:31Let it go!
00:32She's doing much love, Alex!
00:34Stop that!
00:35Oh, that's your ass!
00:37Fuck you!
00:38Fuck you!
00:39Oh, you're gonna fucking stop it!
00:42You're doing it, Alex!
00:43I'm gonna do it, Alex!
00:44I'm gonna do it, Alex!
00:44I'm gonna do it, Alex!
00:46I'm gonna do it!
00:47That's what you want, isn't it?
00:50I'll jump!
00:51Oh, no!
00:52Oh, no!
00:54Oh, no!
00:58Oh, no!
00:59Oh, no!
01:21Lately, I've been fascinated by the acting career of Theresa Russell.
01:29She had an unusual run as a leading lady in many provoking cult films from the 80s and 90s.
01:41Not afraid of challenging sexual material, she showed a sense of bravery in her craft,
01:50that few of her contemporaries did.
01:58She was born in California in 1957, and got an early start in the industry, after being
02:06discovered by a photographer in a Burbank mall.
02:1118 years old, she came into the orbit of the legendary Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel, who
02:19were putting together The Last Tycoon for Eli Gazan, and wanted an actress for the role
02:26of Cecilia Brady.
02:29Spiegel, who was 57 years her senior, tried to sexually proposition to her, but Theresa spurred
02:37away his advances, standing her ground against a powerful Oscar-winning producer.
02:44The move almost derailed her career, but she finally got casted, after auditioning for
02:50Kazan himself.
02:53Already from the start, she surrounded herself with the cream of the crop of performers of
03:00that time.
03:01150 years old, she was joined in 1981.
03:15Is this ping pong?
03:17He can't play.
03:27Is this ping pong?
03:29He can't play.
03:45Her next movie, Stray Time, is a great late 70s crime film, which is based on the novel
03:53No Beasts or Fears, by the former criminal Eddie Bunker.
03:59It was a personal project for its leading man, Dustin Hoffman, and he had a lot of creative
04:06control over the production.
04:19Hoffman plays Max, a career criminal, who is released from prison, and tries to adapt
04:26back into society.
04:30Theresa plays Jenny, a secretary, who helps him find a new job, and a romantic relationship
04:37develops between them.
04:42Listen, if I get this job, can I celebrate by taking you to dinner?
04:48Sure.
04:51Is that a half yes?
04:55I guess so.
04:58Why don't you go there?
04:59I hope you get the job.
05:00Thanks for your time.
05:02Good luck.
05:04Let me know what happens.
05:09The relationship gets threatened, when Max returns back to his past criminal life, to support
05:16himself.
05:17Open that fucking head up.
05:19Open it.
05:20Shut up!
05:20Open it.
05:21Do you feel that?
05:23Yeah.
05:23Open it.
05:24It's a great character study by Hoffman, and the chemistry between him and Theresa is wonderful.
05:32And she brings a melancholic undercurrent to her character.
05:39Can you pull over for a second?
05:41Why?
05:42Please pull over.
05:43I don't feel well.
05:44Alright, just wait till we get to a gas station.
05:46Can't wait, Max.
05:50You help me.
05:51You son of a bitch.
05:51I'm the fucking one of my shit.
05:55I'm the fucking orden button.
05:57You're fucking hell on me.
05:57Leave a fucking hell on me.
06:10I'm the fucking...
06:12Aren't you happy?
06:14Couldn't be happier.
06:15You're a day late.
06:18Hey, I wired you, didn't I?
06:19Yeah, I was waiting for me when I got back.
06:23Alex, I'm moving in with you. Can't we just...
06:25Just do one thing for me, Milena. Never force yourself to be different from who you are.
06:32Well, how am I then, huh? You tell me. How am I?
06:37You're just fine if you forget someone was waiting.
06:40Look, can't we just forget all that?
06:42What, forget that because you got on something pretty, it changes who you are?
06:50Bad Timing, from 1980, marked Theresa's first collaboration with the maverick British director, Nicholas Roeg.
07:02The story takes place in Vienna during the Cold War,
07:06and chronicles the dysfunctional relationship between an American psychologist, played by Art Garfunkel,
07:14and his young free-willing girlfriend, played by Theresa,
07:20who he tries to assert his dominance and control over, with disastrous consequences.
07:27People really did not understand that film. They didn't get it, you know, and the credits didn't get it.
07:33I was up for an audition to go do Star Wars, of all things.
07:39And so I was reading Star Wars, and my agent was, like, pressuring me, you know, like, go read for
07:43Star Wars.
07:44You know, this is going to be this thing. And I'm going, I don't know.
07:47And I'd always said, as in my little actor's prayer, if anybody just gave me the chance, I could just
07:52show them.
07:53I know it. I could, please, God, give me this chance. And then, bad timing, went up the hell in
07:58my lap.
07:58And I was like, holy, did I do this, you know?
08:03The story is told in flashbacks, and Rogue's innovative, non-linear way of editing was a new type of film
08:12grammar
08:13that would be more prevalent as the years would pass.
08:18Theresa jumps into her character with a raw emotional power
08:23in a lot of difficult scenes of frank sexuality and emotional turmoil.
08:32Drink when I want to drink and fuck when I want to fuck.
08:35I'm sure you will. You do everything only when you want to.
08:39See you tomorrow, same time, same place.
08:42Fuck you.
08:43Wait a minute. Wait, Alex!
08:46Wait, Alex!
08:49Alex.
08:54You want me? Huh? Huh? Come on. Come on. Do it now, Alex. Do it now.
09:03Here it is, Alex. Here it is. Look at it, Alex. Alex!
09:06Come here, take it. That's what you want. Here it is. Come on. Huh?
09:11But you want it? Then do it now. Fuck me. Fuck me right here now, goddammit!
09:17Oh, fuck you.
09:18Huh?
09:21After bad timing, Theresa developed a relationship with Rogue and married him after the production was completed.
09:31Their partnership became one of the most interesting husband and wife collaboration in films since Gina Rowlands and John Cassavetes.
09:56Their follow-up was Eureka from 1983.
10:03Gene Hackman plays a prospector, who finds gold deep in the Yukon wilderness, and amasses a vast fortune.
10:20His newfound wealth provides trouble for him and his family life, especially to his young daughter, Tracy, who is played
10:30by Theresa, and her steamy and complicated relationship with Claude, played by Rutger Hauer.
10:39You didn't earn the gold, Jack. You took it from nature. You raped the earth.
10:45I found it.
10:46You stole it.
10:48He also faces pressure from the American mob in the Bahamas that wants to buy his land for their casino
10:56operation.
10:58You're not getting it, Jack.
10:59You're not getting it, Jack.
10:59Mankowski is dangerous. How can I get through to you? This man is dangerous.
11:04What about Eureka?
11:05Eureka is a wild and audacious movie, with scenes of extreme violence, and plenty of steamy sex scenes between Hauer
11:19and Russell.
11:23It's Rogue's most self-indulgent movie, and it was a complete financial failure upon release to the general public.
11:31What about Eureka?
11:33What about Eureka?
11:34What about Eureka?
11:35Yeah, where is it?
11:37Where is it?
11:37Yeah, I don't know.
11:39Despite the great cast, the story falls apart by the third act, and Rogue loses his grip on the material.
11:48But the movie's wild moments is something to behold.
12:13Of all the movies she did with her husband Rogue, InSignificance, from 1985, is the least
12:22offensive of the bunch.
12:25It's based on a play by Terry Johnson, where we meet four famous people from the 1950s, converged in a
12:35New York hotel room during one night in 1954.
12:39The four characters are Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio, Senator Joe McCarthy, and finally Marilyn Monroe.
12:52Theresa's portrayal of Monroe is distinctive and wonderful, done with a playful touch, and framing her as a curious creature,
13:04and not as an empty bimbo actress.
13:09Hi.
13:11Hello.
13:12Are you busy?
13:14It's only I'm probably being pursued.
13:18This is an awful liberty, I know, but I'm very honored to meet you.
13:28The narrative is more straightforward than earlier films of Rogue, but the looming threat of the atomic bomb is omnipresent
13:38throughout the movie.
13:39Oppenheimer?
13:40Oppenheimer?
13:41Oppenheimer?
13:42His name casts a shadow of doom since Nagasaki.
13:46Professor, the world chooses its heroes.
13:50There are no shadows in the pristine world of theory, no stains in Armageddon, where E equals MC squared, even
14:00if MC squared equals one fuck of a big bang.
14:10Unlike Christopher Nolan, who played it safe, and didn't show the real human effect of the atomic bomb in his
14:18overrated Oppenheimer, Rogue shows a devastating montage of the bomb exploding, with Marilyn engulfed in the flames, in a visceral
14:31and bold dream sequence.
15:00Look at this!
15:06Oh, this is no fun. This is no fun at all. What sort of mummy are you anyway and where
15:11are we going?
15:15To the clinic.
15:16What?
15:18I must see my husband.
15:19No!
15:20Stop it! Stop it!
15:22We are not going to any clinic.
15:25But my husband is going to have to talk to him.
15:27No clinic. No doctors.
15:30Nothing medical whatsoever.
15:39No. Maybe not.
15:43Track 29 was one of their last movies together.
15:47It is one of the most demented films of Rogue's filmography.
15:54It was produced by Josh Harrison's company, Handmade Films,
15:58and baffled critics and audiences with his weird mix of twisted sexuality and aberrant comedy.
16:06You bitch! You crazy boy! Idiot! Stop it! Do you hear me? Stop it at once!
16:11Shut up! Shut up!
16:16Choo-choo.
16:17What?
16:19Choo!
16:19What do you mean? Are you referring to my trains?
16:21Choo-choo-choo-choo!
16:23Hurry!
16:25Although not a masterpiece by any stretch.
16:27It's completely unhinged in its weirdness.
16:31Mommy!
16:32Get away!
16:35PLEASE!
16:46Hey!
17:02Her next leading role, unfortunately, didn't help her career in any way.
17:08Come here, sweetheart.
17:21Now then, you have two choices, honey.
17:25You can haul ass yourself, or we haul you off and take you in.
17:29Yes, sir.
17:31Sorry, sir, really, sir, but I was just wondering, were you going to have me jog alongside you,
17:36or were you going to cuff me to your spoke?
17:42Horror, from 1991, chronicles the life of a street walker in LA, narrates the problems
17:51that happens with the oldest profession in the world, while we get glimpses of her past
17:56life.
17:59The movie was supposed to be the antithesis to the fake and glossy portrayal of prostitution,
18:05from the hit movie Pretty Woman, released a year before.
18:10At least, that was the intent.
18:22The final result is a campy and crass movie, with a pseudo-documentary Fort Walls style,
18:30that maybe would have been better suited for a stage play, rather than a 90-minute motion picture.
18:39Despite this, I have to commend Teresa's bravery for putting herself out there with this role,
18:47going for broke in many difficult and demeaning scenes involving her character.
18:53This is a very, very challenging role. I think it's probably one of the hardest things I've ever done.
18:59I was very scared of it, and whenever I'm scared of something, that really, that means I have to do
19:05it.
19:05You never didn't know where to quit, did you?
19:28Someone sure are going to be in trouble with the police.
19:32This guy's license just expired.
19:45I think we just need to get wasted.
20:03After the failure of horror, it took Teresa a few years to get back into Hollywood's good grace.
20:12But in 1998, she was back in the mainstream, with the cult erotic thriller, Wild Things.
20:23Wild Things takes place in the seedy underbelly of South Florida,
20:27and a humid location provides the film with a distinct atmosphere.
20:36It's a steamy movie, with a lot of nudity and sexuality.
20:41Even Kevin Bacon shows his package in a brief scene.
20:45I cannot believe you're just going to sit there and let them get away with this shit!
20:50The movie represented something of a comeback for Teresa, even though she plays a supporting part,
20:57as Denise Richards' wealthy and promiscuous mother.
21:06Listen, Sam, it was really good seeing you the other day.
21:10Look, Sandra, I'm real busy right now, so...
21:13I haven't found anyone who can handle my boat the way you can.
21:20Yeah, well...
21:21I know you're fucking Barbara Baxter.
21:23So what?
21:24So, maybe I'm a one-woman man now.
21:27Ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:28Aw, poor Sam.
21:31You really think you're going to get one of these Blue Bay women to marry you?
21:35Are you finished, Sandra?
21:36Grab a clue, honey.
21:38You're a hired hand.
21:39You're a good lay.
21:40That's as far as it goes.
21:41Enjoy it.
21:42While at last...
21:44Bye, Sandra.
21:46It's a great piece of casting, and she seems to have a lot of fun with the role,
21:51as a sensual, but powerful cougar.
21:57You seem to find guns therapeutic.
22:02Maybe I oughta try it.
22:18Like many working actresses in Hollywood, unfortunately, the window of opportunity closes faster for women
22:28than men in the business.
22:44You're not getting near her.
22:45You're nothing but a common thief.
22:48You maybe even killed a man?
22:50It wasn't like that.
22:53It wasn't.
22:55Aside from a small part, as the Sandman's ex-wife,
22:59in the blockbuster hit Spider-Man 3, she kept a low profile in the intertwining years,
23:07and hasn't made a film since 2014.
23:12Following Theresa's career up close and hearing her speak in interviews,
23:17she seemed much more interested in being artistic rather than chasing the Hollywood game of success and fame.
23:28She did her career on her own terms, and took chances with material that was provocative and challenging.
23:37Her body of work is more unconventional and offbeat than her contemporaries,
23:44like Sharon Stone and Michelle Pfeiffer.
23:48I would love to see Theresa do a comeback in a new movie,
23:52with a director that understands her talent and bravely.
23:58Only the future will show us.
24:14Oh,
24:15Oh.
24:19Oh,
24:26Oh,
24:27Oh
24:27Oh
24:28Amen.