Why does Jennifer Connelly doesn't like PHENOMENA?

She's probably stuck up and embarrassed by the film. Though a has been, she is an Oscar winner, and how many of them do you see bringing up horror films they've appeared in long ago? Tom Hanks never mentions HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE, George Clooney has never discussed RETURN TO HORROR HIGH or the unfinished GRIZZLY 2 though I think he did compare BATMAN AND ROBIN to RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (which was trying to be a stupid film), and Renee Zellweger I think has been asked about TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION but I'm not sure if she's serious or joking or just talking about the film experience and not the actual film.


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Maybe she´s got good taste? But, of course, that cannot be because she appeared in both Requiem For A Dream and A Beautiful Mind as an adult. Presumably after reading the script first.



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I haven't seen the Conan O'Brien interview, but if it's true that she bad-mouthed Phenomena then it completely contradicts her opinion of it when she appeared on the David Letterman Show (I think that was sometime in the early 90s). On Letterman she praised Phenomena and even called it "beautiful".

In this 2010 german interview with the 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' she doesn't really badmouth the movie... but only a small part is about 'Phenomena' - I tried to translate.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/interview-ich-glaube-an-geister-1.424100


It translates like that:

Süddeutsche Zeitung: You seem to have been quite couragous even as a child-actor. How else could you have worked on the horror-shocker 'Phenomena' with crazy Dario Argento at age 14?

Jennifer Connelly: Believe it or not, but that movie was an exception - I was into that project with all my heart and soul. My parents wanted to turn down the role but I was deadly wounded and so I made troubles until they agreed to me participating in it. I met Dario Argento and liked him instantly. And I wanted to go to Italy. The film was made there.

SZ: But you must have recognized that this guy is somewhat bizarre, didn't you?

Connelly: Well, he looks a bit like a skeleton and wears this haircut for monks that strangely went wrong. Back then I thought it being a bit strange that his own daughter played the first victim brutally killed. Her head got chopped off. But believe me, that guy is strangely amiable as well and when you're on the set you can see quite clearly that the head is made of rubber. It didn't bother me at all back then.

SZ: What about the scene with you falling into a dump full of decaying corpses?

Connelly: The special-effects-guy told me with pride that all that's in that dump is edible. He cooked tons of pasta and told me exactly what ingredients he used. So basically I jumped into a dump of food, which was maybe a little disgusting but for a teenager it was great fun. Today I'm personally not that interested in this kind of horror anymore - today I prefer it a bit more subtle, a bit more on the psychological side and a bit more believable. Maybe a bit more in the direction of 'Dark Water'.

It's a terrible film and it almost lost her a finger; I think it's pretty fair enough if she doesn't remember it fondly.

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Jennifer Connelly seems like a piece of work in general. Like, she's always sorta badmouthing Labyrinth, and Phenomena, and that movie she made where she was the hot chick who gets locked in a Target with the nerdy guy... The thing that sucks is, I totally get if she wants to put distance between herself and her earlier projects or whatever, but when the directors and other actors from these films get interviewed, they always say she's great. And then she goes on to act like working with them was a chore she's still conflicted about. I'd hate to direct her in something. I'd be too afraid she'd go on record five years later to say she thinks the project is stupid.

Compared to a lot of odd plotted 80's movies this one is great, she should be happy that she was in one of the better ones, when way more famous actors were in really really awful cheesy horror movies! Atleast this one is pretty good. I liked it, it was much better than I thought it'd be, I thought it was gonna be Lke a serious dr. Doo little type thing, but she just relates to the insects not actually has conversions with them so made it a lot better, more believable if still out there, but conversations would've been over the top so glad they didn't go there. Anyway I agree with the awful horror flicks George clooney starred in but the Rene zellweger Texas chainsaw is my fave one! That's the best outta all of em so not sure why she would be embarrassed either! That's saying a lot bc I usually think the slasher type horror flicks are stupid, prefer the psychological ones like carnival of souls etc....

its quite simple - she doesnt want to be associated with this pile of sh!t

the fanboys can get upset - its a bad film get over it