What the Hell Happened to Linda Fiorentino?

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/blind-item-2014.759307/

11. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 06/02 **#1 1**
Do you want to know how you can go from an A list mostly movie actress who everyone calls the next big thing and has directors lining up to work with you and then have it all gone in an instant? And when I mean all gone, I mean it was all gone. There is no more working for her at all. No straight to on demand. No guest spot in television. She went from everything to nothing because she ticked off the wrong people. There was no one that was left unscathed. Our actress hit her box office peak in one of the biggest movies of all time. It was also the beginning of the end and she wasn't invited back for the sequel. She was that toxic. She slept with directors and producers of both sexes and then she would talk bad about them to the next person she slept with. She was a pain to work with on every set she ever stepped foot on and was always late and usually half in the bag. She had really large weight fluctuations and whenever anyone would cross her about any of her issues she would pull out her phone and call one of the people she was sleeping with and threaten them if they didn't do something about the person giving her grief. It was as if the entire world banded together to keep her out of any other movies and no one has ever gone back on it. There was one brief attempt by our actress to mount a comeback in a film about a half decade ago after a five year absence, but the movie was bought by a company specifically so it would never see the light of day. Linda Fiorentino "Men in Black"

Sounds like code for "She was intelligent and honest." Most people, especially people with power, hate to see those traits in others because they neither have those traits nor understand how to go about getting them.

Wasn't it a DEnuerelizer?

http://www.foxella.com/there-is-no-more-working-for-her-at-all/

Do you want to know how you can go from an A list mostly movie actress who everyone calls the next big thing and has directors lining up to work with you and then have it all gone in an instant?

And when I mean all gone, I mean it was all gone.

There is no more working for her at all.

No straight to on demand.

No guest spot in television.

She went from everything to nothing because she ticked off the wrong people.

There was no one that was left unscathed.

Our actress hit her box office peak in one of the biggest movies of all time. It was also the beginning of the end and she wasn’t invited back for the sequel.

She was that toxic. She slept with directors and producers of both sexes and then she would talk bad about them to the next person she slept with.

She was a pain to work with on every set she ever stepped foot on and was always late and usually half in the bag.

She had really large weight fluctuations and whenever anyone would cross her about any of her issues she would pull out her phone and call one of the people she was sleeping with and threaten them if they didn’t do something about the person giving her grief.

It was as if the entire world banded together to keep her out of any other movies and no one has ever gone back on it.

There was one brief attempt by our actress to mount a comeback in a film about a half decade ago after a five year absence, but the movie was bought by a company specifically so it would never see the light of day.

Linda Fiorentino “Men in Black”

hmmm

Iirc, Kevin Smith said that she was a bit difficult, and he's worked with Bruce Willis. I think he said she wasn't totally awful or anything, but still...difficult.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Linda-Fiorentino-have-to-destroy-her-acting-career-by-being-so-difficult-to-work-with/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

Ms. Fiorentino seems to have grossly overestimated her appeal as a performer.

While she was decent actor and an attractive woman, she was already in her mid 30s when she began to be noticed. Unfortunately in Hollywood unless a female performer really hits at the box office in that age range, it's “Mommy roles" or “best friend” until it's time for “Grandma” roles. In Fiorentino's case, none of those were really “viable”.

For reasons that have never been made clear, despite being an integral part of Men In Black, she wasn't asked to return for the sequels. And while people claim that her negative interactions with director Kevin Smith during the making of the film Dogma damaged her career, the film itself was a relatively low budget which was barely acknowledged at the box office when it was released.

Fiorentino has been unable to land a television series, her last film role was a short nearly 10 years and has largely been forgotten by the industry. Since she's now 63, it's a virtual certainty that her career as a leading actor is over. At best, she could become a character actor on television and perhaps some arthouse films. However even that is slim hope as she just hasn't been building up her resume over the last two decades.

Maybe Fiorentino will write her memoirs and explain her decisions and happened. Unless and until she does, all we can do is to speculate.

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/32990225-linda-fiorintino.-i-ve-never-heard-anything-nice-about-her-but-i-ve-never-heard-anything-specific.-

In addition to her reputation as being difficult to work with, Fiorentino probably did her career no favors by a) dating Anthony Pellicano, and b) pretending to date an FBI agent in order to manipulate him into giving her restricted information that could help Pellicano's case, which she gave to Pellicano's lawyers. Considering just how many people went to jail over the Pellicano stuff, it's kind of surprising that Linda was never charged nor prosecuted.

by Anonymous reply 23 May 28, 2023 2:30 AM