Priscilla Presley
It wasn't just that she was absolutely gorgeous in this movie, it was everything about her, extremely sexy and really sweet too. She was the perfect woman.
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How many people knew that Bo Derek was originally considered for Priscilla Presley's role:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-naked-gun-priscilla-presley-replaced-bo-derek-1988-comedy-150005082.html
Here's a deep cut from the files of Police Squad! Thirty-five years ago, the era-defining ZAZ comedy team — that would be David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker — behind Airplane! and Top Secret! set about bringing their short-lived parody of TV cop shows to the big screen as The Naked Gun. Leslie Nielsen happily reprised his role as L.A.'s non-finest, Det. Frank Drebin, and the writer/directors initially planned to cast a real 10 as his leading lady — screen siren, Bo Derek.share
"She was going to be the hot, sexy woman," David Zucker tells Yahoo Entertainment now about Derek's near-miss with The Naked Gun, which opened in theaters on Dec. 2, 1988. There was just one problem: The actress's husband and regular director, John Derek, apparently didn't have much of a sense of humor. "He didn't let her do the role," Zucker recalls during a joint interview with Abrahams about the recently published oral history, Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!