![]() ![]() "We know that women have nuanced personalities and have different qualities and facets of their personalities that are interesting," Peet said. This modern take tries to "subtly upend the Madonna-whore trope that's in the original movie, where there's this lovely housewife, homemaker, and then this sex-crazed psycho bunny boiler," Peet said in an interview with CBC News.Ī mainstay of 1980s and '90s cinema, the erotic thriller wave spawned movies such as Body Heat, Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Dressed To Kill - typically nail-biters with an illicit or romantic affair at their centre. But our conception of sexual politics and power dynamics have shifted drastically since those days. But this depiction conveys more empathy for its femme fatale Alex and harsher consequences for its male protagonist, Dan. The limited series reimagines the steamy-scary 1987 hit, in which a married man and his family are tormented by a troubled woman after a one-night stand. ![]() Amanda Peet knew making an erotic thriller in 2023 would be complicated when she accepted a role in the television adaptation of Fatal Attraction. ![]()
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