Elizabeth Berkley Honors Showgirls With Dazzling Jeweled Glamour
25. Berkley definitely got the short end of the stick in the equation. She was only paid $100,000 for Showgirls and was subsequently dropped by her agent after the release. Other agents refused to take her calls. To add insult to injury, she was awarded not one, but two Razzies for Worst Actress and Worst New Star. No new roles came her way after that. Even her request for $2,500 to sit for an interview for the 10th-anniversary box set was denied. However, on the film’s 20th anniversary, she attended a screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and revealed that she had finally come to terms with the whole experience.
“When a dream is happening, it’s unlike anything you can ever imagine. Which is why when the movie came out, it was more painful than anything you can imagine,” she told the crowd. “1995 was such a different time, where taking risks like that were not embraced. They were laughed at, they were shamed, publicly. To be a young girl in the center of that was something that was quite difficult. But I found my own resiliency and my power and my confidence…Tonight I want to thank you guys for giving me this gift of truly getting a full-circle moment of experiencing the joy with you.”