Gabrielle Anwar

It's not bad when we do it.

Lesser known than its two predecessors, but arguably scarier, Abel Ferrer's 1983 criminally underrated, in my opinion, take diverges the most from Finney's source material, dispensing with the doctor-detective framework in favor of a rebellious teenager, Marty Malone, played by a future Burn Notice star, Gabrielle Anwar.

I was so shocked.

I...

Oh, I remember that.

Gabrielle Anwar.

Was she in that? Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, principal cast, Charlie Sheen as Aramis, Kiefer Sutherland as Athos, Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagnan, Oliver Platt as Porthos, Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, Rebecca DeMornay as Milady de Winter, Gabrielle Anwar as Queen Anne, Michael Wincott as Roefore, Julie Delphi as Constance, and Hugh O'Connor as King Louis VIII, or The 13th, I think.

For critical reception here, Roger Ebert's review.

He gave the film a mixed review, noting that delightfully lighthearted adventure with energetic performances, but lacked the dramatic weight and sophistication of stronger Dumas adaptations.

20 years.

Yeah.

Gabrielle Anwar was pregnant during the filming and had to have her costumes altered so that, you know, people wouldn't be able to see that.

Was Charlie Sheen the father?

You know, she was great in the rehearsals, knew her stuff, you know, good actress, that type of thing.

But there was, you know, we didn't have that camaraderie that I had, like, with Tracy and with Gabrielle Anwar, who, you know, we'd kind of shoot the shit after, got a bite to eat, whatever type thing.

Now, Tracy was... one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet.

And the first thing I noticed about Tracy was when she came to set and she was all in, feet first, and what can I do? What can I do for you? How do you want to see this? How can I make this better? She was great.

And we also have a body snatching kind of idea.

The initial description of Meg Tilly, who is the stepmom to Gabriella Anwar, is, you know, she replaced my mom.

So the initial description of the voiceover makes the mother a bit of a body snatcher.

And it's interesting because Meg Tilly and Gabriella Noir look like they could be mother and daughter.

Oh, no.

I was going to say, for me, the change on Slate comes when Gabrielle Anwar shows up and they do the tango.

That's where I'm like, he's more than an asshole.

Nobody learns how to tango is a complete asshole, especially one that can dance that well.

you know yes being an army guy and blind you know and and that's that's when it started to turn for me you know is is frank recognizing you know this moment for what it is it's it's his last chance to dance And Gabrielle Anwar, who I had a huge crush on at the time, mostly because of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

And later, you know, what was that spy show she did with Bruce Campbell?

Burn Notice.

Oh, Burn Notice,