How ‘Fatal Attraction’ Rebooted the Ultimate Female Villain

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How ‘Fatal Attraction’ Rebooted the Ultimate Female Villain
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In the new series “Fatal Attraction,” the iconic Alex Forrest, played by Lizzy Caplan, is a bit more complex than the villainous version Glenn Close played in 1987

When audiences saw a test screening of the 1987 thriller “Fatal Attraction,” they didn’t like the way the villain Alex Forrest died at the end.

In the test-screened version of the film about a woman who becomes dangerously obsessed with her married lover, Alex dies by suicide. But viewers wanted the movie to “terminate” Alex with “extreme prejudice,” as . In the version that made it to theaters, Alex is drowned by her paramour and then shot by his wife.

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