![]() I always say it was like herding a bunch of cats. We drove Jonathan Lynn completely crazy because we were ecstatic and laughing and carrying on over each other’s work all the time. It was thrilling, a joy, and an honor to be amongst those people. And I say comic actors because they are all great actors who happen to have an extraordinary comedic bent. Those were, and are, some of the most iconic comic actors of all time. I wasn’t comparing it in any way to the board game, and I didn’t have a reaction to the fact that they were making a film out of a board game, because I was looking at it as an isolated script and character.Īnd, my god, the cast. Because I wasn’t familiar with the board game, I was really looking at it as a script that came to me with all these fabulous characters and this exciting and creative murder mystery. It seems so common for Hollywood now, but that type of adaptation wasn’t the norm in the ’80s. You said that you weren’t familiar with the board game, but I’m curious what your initial reaction was to learning that Clue, as a game itself, was being adapted into a film. ![]() Those were some of the qualities that attracted me to her. She was a powerful woman and used her sexuality to get what she wanted, but she wouldn’t be used by anybody else. She was in control of her life as she saw it. Miss Scarlet to me was really smart and really in charge and ran a very successful business - albeit a little nefarious. She was very materialistic and driven, but not terribly talented in what she did. Miss Scarlet, as compared to Norma … well, Norma was canny in a street sense, but she portrayed herself as ditzy and superficial. What were the “very different” roles you were trying to seek out at the time? So yeah, that was the reason that I did it, and boy am I not sorry that I did. I saw in this role an opportunity for me to do something very, very different. I just knew some of the other cast members who had already joined, and I got really excited to act alongside them. So I got this call about Clue when I was in Greece. I was really being careful about what I did next and where that was. I was getting a lot of offers for that kind of character, and I didn’t want to recreate that in another project. I wasn’t wanting to do roles that emulated Norma in Victor/Victoria. But for Clue, the offer came in when I was on vacation in Greece with my family - my mom, my son, his girlfriend, just a whole bunch of us. I had done Victor/Victoria and was still enjoying the success that came with the role. Can you give me a sense of where you were in your career at that point and the roles you were seeking out? ![]() So, it’s 1985, and a few years prior to Clue you had your most defining film role with Victor/Victoria. “But ultimately, we got our revenge.” Read on for Warren’s detailed memories of filming Clue, fitting into that dress, the rumor of a “lost” ending, and her thoughts on a reboot. “It’s an amazing, wondrous outcome, because when it opened, we were all ravaged by disappointment,” Warren recalled during a recent call with Vulture. (The idea that it’s adapted from a board game, though, didn’t seem to matter.) Thanks to the dawn of streaming, Clue has found a new class of fans, who got sucked into the mystery of every character having the opportunity, the motive, and the weapon to go on a polished murder rampage in a New England mansion. Upon its 1985 release, Clue was met with a shrug by critics and viewers alike, who didn’t take kindly to the fact there were three separate endings that required three separate tickets to see. “Like all members of the oldest profession, I’m a capitalist.” “Communism is just a red herring,” she purrs during her confession. Her business is actually government secrets, and she’ll kill to keep that a secret, as is revealed during one of Clue’s three unique endings. madam hustling in the Red Scare era who’s proud to be blackmailed for her line of work, which she describes as “a specialized hotel and telephone service to provide gentlemen with the company of a lady for a short while.” But not really. It stars a wildly talented ensemble cast that includes Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Michael McKean, and the now-deceased Eileen Brennan and Madeline Kahn, but perhaps nobody leaves as indelible of a lipstick mark as Lesley Ann Warren’s Miss Scarlet: She’s a D.C. There’s a one-plus-two-plus-two-plus-one chance that Clue has reentered your cinematic orbit over the past few years, with the 1985 comedic whodunnit, like one of Wadsworth’s decanted wines, aging into a full-bodied cult classic destined for further greatness. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Paramount Pictures “When it opened, we were all ravaged by disappointment. ![]()
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