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Trailer Clip A Guide to the Films of Ridley Scott. Full Episode Video Photos Top cast Edit. Susan Sarandon Louise as Louise. Geena Davis Thelma as Thelma. Harvey Keitel Hal as Hal. Michael Madsen Jimmy as Jimmy. Christopher McDonald Darryl as Darryl. Stephen Tobolowsky Max as Max. Brad Pitt J. Timothy Carhart Harlan as Harlan. Sonny Carl Davis Albert as Albert. Ken Swofford Major as Major. Carol Mansell Waitress as Waitress. Jack Lindine I. Tech as I. Ridley Scott.

More like this. Soon there was an enthusiastic new pair of A-listers. Meryl thought that, at the end, one of them—Thelma or Louise—should live. Of course, we didn't particularly agree with that.

Scott met with them. I really want to do this movie! But I didn't think she was right for the part. He reconnected with an actress who had been dead set on a starring role in the film the whole time the two other sets of actresses had come and gone. Over lunch at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, Davis—her eyes bright, her brown hair hanging almost to her waist—speaks as avidly as if filming had wrapped three weeks ago. She first heard about the script from a director friend of her then husband, Jeff Goldblum, and once she read it she wouldn't take no for an answer.

I was always attracted to characters who are in charge of their own fate. But he has to see who the other person is. Then Davis was offered a role in another movie, so she got tough with Scott. I don't care which role! Meanwhile, Scott had sent Susan Sarandon the screenplay. Her spirited performance as the baseball-team cougar in Bull Durham had just resulted in what many felt was a second robbery: she'd been nominated for the Golden Globe but had been overlooked as a contender for the Oscar.

She was Louise. Davis went to the meeting with Scott and Sarandon, still thinking she'd make a better Louise than a Thelma. Susan was so self-possessed, so centered and together. And, in studying the scene where Louise's boyfriend comes to a motel with emergency money for her, she vetoed the intimate interlude implied in the script.

It's hard to imagine this now, because the believability with which Davis and Sarandon morphed their characters from conventional, well-behaved women to panicked parties in a murder to existential road warriors makes their casting seem destined, but Scott had to sell them to Ladd. She's very tall. She can handle it. The meeting took three minutes. They had their stars. The linchpin was the character Hal Slocumbe, the Arkansas detective who becomes certain, with every new clue that identifies the unlikely fugitives, that they're decent women caught in a spiral of rash decisions and bad luck.

Scott had talked Keitel into playing a 19th-century Frenchman in the director's first film, The Duellists , which won best debut movie at Cannes. Now, 12 years later, Keitel was busting Scott's chops again. Do it. By contrast, Thelma's husband, Darryl Dickinson, was the movie's buffoon.

He had a mustache, a comb-over—he thinks he's a player. You'd see his picture on a supermarket wall: Employee of the Month. The third male was Jimmy, Louise's boyfriend, a country-rocker whose main flaw was that he was commitment-shy. Khouri wanted Louise's woundedness—from her ever-hinted-at long-ago rape in Texas—to be manifest in her choice of a safe, if inappropriate, man. Madsen was—and is—a gravelly-voiced, Harley-riding hipster, a pal of Keitel and the late Dennis Hopper.

In his working-class Chicago family, he was raised to be a cop, and it took him years not to think acting was for sissies. Scott wanted him for Harlan, Thelma's roadhouse rapist. Madsen drove to the Santa Monica house where Sarandon was living with her then partner, Tim Robbins, and they went for lunch at a place coincidentally named Louise's Trattoria.

I knew I could do it, and I knew that she knew we could do it. There was one more male role: J. Smokily handsome, with thick brows and pouty lips, Baldwin was a comer, who had played the preppy killer Robert Chambers in a TV movie and co-starred in Flatliners. Scott cast him. A struggling young actor who had had a small part in the TV series Dallas also wanted the role, however.

And, most importantly, it was close to home. Then Pitt auditioned for a role in Backdraft, a Ron Howard action film about firefighters chasing an arsonist, which, with a cast that included Robert De Niro, Kurt Russell, and Donald Sutherland, was expected to be a blockbuster. Arguably the most iconic image of the movie is the final freeze-frame shot of Thelma and Louise flying off the cliff in a touching suicide pact.

However, Scott nearly ended the film differently. Before settling on the finale shown in the film, Scott entertained the idea of having Thelma survive by having Louise shove her out of the car the instant before it sails off the cliff.

This would have made Thelma the sole survivor and Louise the only fatal victim. Producers were extremely worried about the downbeat ending of the film, which was actually far darker in Scott's original cut. As a compromise, Scott whittled the scene down to what has become one of the most iconic images of the film. Scott's original edit depicted the car falling all the way down to the canyon as a sad B. King track plays.

Hal Slocumb Harvey Keitel would then morosely look at the wreckage below before going back to his car. As a solo female writer in Hollywood, prospects for the movie were slim.

But the industry eventually lauded her efforts with the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in Callie wondered whether the macho director, who was known for Blade Runner and Alien , could bring her vision to life. The two had artistic differences throughout the shoot, which Callie cryptically alluded to in her Oscar acceptance speech.

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