Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy and Julia Roberts in the early 90s (Erotic 90’s, Part 2)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The first blockbuster about sex of the 90s, Pretty Woman both reinvigorated Richard Gere’s career, and turned Julia Roberts into the biggest female movie star of the era. We’ll dissect the gender politics of this fantasy about love between a streetwalker and a corporate villain, analyze its lasting appeal, and trace the wild rollercoaster ride of the first few years of Roberts’ movie stardom. Virtually unknown before 1989, within a year of Pretty Woman’s release Roberts was considered the most bankable woman in movies, a controversial icon of 90s womanhood and, eventually, a romantic antihero whose performances and personal life were put on a pedestal by a breathless media, only to be swiftly knocked down. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This.
0:32.7	The podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's
0:40.7	first century.
0:43.0	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is part two of our ongoing series, Arotic
1:22.0	I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this.
1:34.8	We begin today by talking about the first massive blockbuster about sex of the 1990s.
1:42.8	I've seen pretty woman a lot.
1:47.0	I saw it for the first time when I was 9 years old, almost 10.
1:51.4	It was the first R-rated movie I ever saw in a theater.
1:56.0	Most of the times that I've seen pretty woman in the 32 years since, all the times I caught
2:01.3	bits of it on cable, and the few times I've put it on for comfort on a plane or when I couldn't
2:06.9	sleep, I knew that I was supposed to be offended by aspects of it, or at least temper my enthusiasm
2:15.2	for it by acknowledging that it was a problematic depiction of sex work and disc-tisc, it's
2:22.0	several different types of commodity fetishism.
2:27.0	But I could never get over feeling kind of wowed by it.
2:31.3	I always felt the excitement of that first viewing, which felt illicit even though I was
2:36.8	accompanied by a parent.
2:39.1	It felt like I was getting away with something.
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