The Movie That Sent Sean Young Off The Rails

Who really knows the truth of all that stuff, but the bad publicity did hurt her career. Heck, if all that happened today, she could simply EXPLOIT all the rumors about her and she would have been an even bigger star. The media would get all over it and we'd be hearing about her all the time. But her issues with James Woods happened pre-internet.
As it is, the last thing she's known for is drunkenly interrupting artist Julian Schnabel during his speech at some event. She did, however, joke about it later during her very brief appearance in Jamie Kennedy's documentary "Heckler", a film I liked very much.
Anyway, I've always liked Sean Young. I thought she was a very beautiful young actress when she came on the scene and has been in a handful of great movies.

Yes, michaeldecker, thanks for that info. Of course I'm certainly not privy to the real story between Woods and Young (it's really nobody else's business anyway, right?) and it doesn't help that their versions of events have differed wildly and even changed over time. While a monetary settlement was made that effectively ended the weird saga, Woods did initially feel it necessary to take out a restraining order against Young, and that's when everything hit the news.

Sean Young did indeed once say (during an interview in the now defunct Premiere magazine, I think) that after filming wrapped on "The Boost", Woods failed to "close the circle" -- meaning that Woods left without a word, refusing to acknowledge the time he and Young had spent together. Now, exactly how intimate the two had been I have no idea, but at the time Young strongly implied that there had been an affair and that Woods had hurt her feelings because of his callous behavior at the end of filming.

As to her claim that the trouble was actually caused because she had spurned advances by Woods, it would not be the first time Young has said such a thing. She claimed that she was refused the female lead in "Dick Tracy" because she turned down Warren Beatty's advances. So who knows? The only people who could possibly know the real story haven't been talking about it lately. Sean Young had long been considered difficult to work with, even before "The Boost", but it was only after this film that she began to act out in public to such a degree that it hurt her career. Maybe it was just the booze. On "Celebrity Rehab", she's seemingly one of the few SANE ones in the bunch!

Having said all that, an even more bizarre aspect of "The Boost" is that the book upon which the movie is based was written by Ben Stein! Yes, "Bueller...Bueller...Bueller", THAT Ben Stein! Weirder still, the book was actually about QUALUDES rather than cocaine! The book is titled "Ludes" and the film otherwise follows its plot nearly to the letter. I'd never before seen a movie that so closely followed its source book.

His sues her just because she turned him down, with the result that his fiancée, the media and everybody else are wondering what exactly happened between them? Don't be ridiculous, Sean Young is clearly the problem. Did you forget about her Catwoman audition?

Well, I think it goes without saying that she had issues. If her experience on this film hadn't triggered something within her, then I'm sure something else probably would have. She's struggled with alcohol and in following her career in magazines pre-internet, I always thought she had a tremendous ego. She always implied that she was some kind of misunderstood genius. I just thought she was fairly talented, but definitely beautiful. It was sad to see her stop getting work, even if it was her own fault.