Debra Winger
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Sep 11, 2026
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
And it's not just about like Bertolucci's film.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
They are also like extensively explored with, through like a lot of sequences and And what I loved about watching this film, I watched The Sheltering Sky on my laptop and seeing the scene where John Malkovich characters and Deborah Winger have sex on the desert on big screen, even in Sala Casino, which I bet there are better scenes.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
screening rooms than that.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
I was so, again, impressed by it.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
It should be said that he'd previously made another film with the editor, Walter Fasano, called Bertolucci on Bertolucci, which is basically Bertolucci talking about himself.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
lot of this film is other people including Guadagnino talking about Bertolucci and I mean you know the cast list is incredible there's James Gray Martin Scorsese Deborah Winger Jeremy Thomas who talks fascinatingly about how they made The Last Emperor you've got a bunch of critics American Italian you've got Mark Cousins who for some reason, chose not to wear trousers while he was being interviewed.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
He was at home.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
But that's Mark
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
But it is sort of wild and baggy and digressive in a way that arguably it doesn't need to be.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
I mean, there's some fantastic, you know, people talk really interestingly.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
Deborah Winger is really interesting about the sheltering sky and working in the desert.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
Margot Robbie comes on and kind of says, oh, well, you know, I love these films.
Tommy ThevenetHOST
But back to this, it's so funny how the cast broke out.
Tommy ThevenetHOST
So Deborah Winger was going to originally play the Gina Davis role, and she backed out the second Madonna was signed.
Tommy ThevenetHOST
And basically, Deborah Winger just felt that casting Madonna was like a publicity stunt and would distract from the authenticity of the historically accurate story and turn this into an Elvis Presley musical.
Tommy ThevenetHOST
Apparently, she stood by assertion years later saying,
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well, look at how Madonna's acting career turned out.
SeanGUEST
Did the other woman go on to do, like, what did she do? I don't know who that is.
SeanGUEST
Yeah.
SeanGUEST
Deborah Winger? The name rings a bell, but it's nothing.
Joan SummersHOST
This year, the 1980 John Travolta film Urban Cowboy marks its 40th anniversary.
Joan SummersHOST
Based on a 1979 Esquire magazine story, Urban Cowboy told the tale of a country music love affair between Travolta's Bud and Deborah Winger's Sissy in the town of Pasadena, Texas.
Joan SummersHOST
The action was all set in Gillies, where real-life Gilly Rats, as they affectionately named themselves, spent their nights and money dancing, drinking beer, and riding the bar's famed mechanical bull.
Joan SummersHOST
At the center was singer-pianist Mickey Gilly, a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, who invested in the club with his business partner, Sherwood Cryer, when his music career had stalled.
David JaraHOST
And also this coincides with a recent viewing of Urban Cowboy.
David JaraHOST
You ever seen the movie Urban Cowboy, Max, starring John Travolta and Debra Winger?
Mac BlakeHOST
No, I have not.
Mac BlakeHOST
I cannot say I've been specifically avoiding it.
David SpadeHOST
Yeah
Dana CarveyHOST
... uh, Debra Winger.
Dana CarveyHOST
We'll say, "What, what was, what was that all about?" [laughs] I'm kidding.
David SpadeHOST
Great.
David SpadeHOST
Yeah.
Lisa KudrowGUEST
Yeah.
David SpadeHOST
I saw your, on stupid Instagram, I saw your, um, Urban Cowboy with Debra Winger sketch, and you played Travolta, like, two days ago.
David SpadeHOST
And, uh, that was, I'm talking to Dana.
Melissa GreloHOST
And in it, like, who's the guy? Richard Gere.
Melissa GreloHOST
He comes in and he carries Deborah Winger.
Melissa GreloHOST
He picks her up and carries her out of work.
Melissa GreloHOST
And I thought, oh my gosh, I had butterflies.
Anthony HopkinsGUEST
I just do it.
Anthony HopkinsGUEST
I mean, uh, basically, what, what the, the secret is, I, many years ago, I did, I was in a film called Shadowlands with Debra Winger, and, uh, George Fenton, a British composer, wrote the music for it.
Anthony HopkinsGUEST
Anyway, a couple of years later, I, uh, directed my own film called August, set in North Wales.
Anthony HopkinsGUEST
And, uh, the producers were very good, and they said, uh, "Great.
George McGeeHOST
And initially she had...
George McGeeHOST
She was friends with Deborah Winger and Deborah Winger was like, well... it's a great script.
George McGeeHOST
Why don't you make it gender flip it? Why don't you make it about a girl? And Penny Marshall was like, there's no way we can make it a girl.
George McGeeHOST
That romantic relationship will not work.
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quit! You're out! Don't you do it! Don't! I got nowhere else to go! Richard Gere.
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Deborah Winger.
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An officer and a gentleman.
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From Paramount Pictures.
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