Body Heat
He was also offered the lead in Body Heat, but didn’t think he “could be convincing as a seedy, small-town lawyer.” William Hurt was. “My friend Bill Hurt, of course, was brilliant in the role.” Kathleen Turner was also spectacular, in a 1980s update on ’40s noir femme fatale, and it’s fun to imagine how she would have played off the resolute Reeves, who was so good at giving off an aura of incorruptibility.
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