During a 'Starship Troopers' reunion panel at New York Comic Con, Denise Richards reflected on her failed audition for 'Showgirls,' quipping it was 'probably a blessing' she didn't land Elizabeth Berkley's infamous role.
The actress would go on to work with 'Showgirls' director Paul Verhoeven on his next film 'Starship Troopers' just two years laterNigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture editor and writer with a 12-year history of working in the online and print industries.During a panel at New York Comic Con on Thursday, Oct.
Disappointingly for the young Berkley, "no one associated with the film spoke up on my behalf to protect me," she claimed. "I was left out in the cold and I was a pariah in the industry I had worked so hard for.", which also featured nudity via the film's infamous co-ed shower sequence, on top of a lot of R-rated bug-squashing violence.
Richards portrayed Carmen Ibanez, a high school student who over the course of the film becomes a spaceship captain when Earth goes to war against a race of giant alien insects. to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. but failed to connect with moviegoers in a big way at the time, making only $55 million at the domestic box office after costing more than $100 million to produce.
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