“We got sick and tired of seeing Northerners make movies about the South,” Blount told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2002. Their goal, Blount said, was to make authentic Southern movies.
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She also was a regular on the short-lived 1996 TV series “Profit.”īlount and the Georgia-born McKinnon, who were married in 1998, teamed with fellow Southerner Walton Goggins to form Ginny Mule Pictures in 1999. Other film credits include " Prince of Darkness” (1987), “Needful Things” (1993) and “Box of Moonlight” (1996). “I like doing rural women and bad people, but that character was a very specific kind, so it was hard to get people to see me in other roles,” Blount told The Times in 1986.īlount, who was voted favorite female newcomer in a 1983 US magazine readers poll, went on to play the young mother of Jerry Lee Lewis’ 13-year-old wife and cousin in the 1989 film “Great Balls of Fire!,” starring Dennis Quaid. Her role as Lynette Pomeroy, the insecure and calculating girlfriend of David Keith’s naval-aviation cadet in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” earned her a Golden Globe nomination as the female New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture. The Arkansas-born actress made her film debut while still a teenager in writer-director James Bridges’ 1978 drama “September 30, 1955,” which was filmed on location in Arkansas. Police said there was no sign of foul play an autopsy will be conducted. Louise Blount, who said she last spoke to her daughter Sunday, told police that McKinnon had been in Atlanta for the last month. The actress’ mother, Louise Blount, told police that her daughter had been suffering for 17 years with a condition similar to multiple sclerosis and recently had complained of a pain in her back and neck.
She was 53.īlount, the wife of actor and filmmaker Ray McKinnon, was found in bed holding a cellphone, which she had last used Monday when she told a friend she wasn’t feeling well, according to Little Rock police. Kurt Russell also passed on it, while Kevin Costner and Christopher Reeve were also considered and Dennis Quaid auditioned.Lisa Blount, who played Debra Winger’s best friend in the 1982 movie “An Officer and a Gentleman” and later shared an Academy Award as executive producer of the live-action short film “The Accountant,” was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday by her mother.
Eric Roberts was seriously considered for the lead role, but his manager, Bill Treusch, attended the meetings between Eric and director, Taylor Hackford, which led Hackford to finally have reservations that Treusch would not allow for a vital director/actor relationship to develop between Taylor and Eric. The director wanted Jeff Bridges, but he was unavailable. John Travolta turned down the lead role on the advice of his agent.In the original script, Mayo's Dad visited his son during training and had a much bigger role.Promoted Fangirl: Relating to "Up Where We Belong", Jennifer Warnes was a huge fan of Joe Cocker since her teens.Money, Dear Boy: Richard Gere told Barbara Walters that he only did the film for the money.In fact, reports were that she was in the best physical condition out of all the actors playing the recruits. Irony as She Is Cast: Casey Seeger, the sole female recruit who struggles with the obstacle course was played by Lisa Eilbacher, an amateur bodybuilder, who said that the hardest part of filming was pretending she was out of shape.
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