![]() She’s a masterful storyteller and an even better shit-talker, delivering her most brutal burns with a gleeful smile. Lunch with Turner feels like attending a particularly intimate preview of Finding My Voice. ![]() As a performer, she’s always been willing to get weird, whether that meant playing a kinky sex worker in Crimes of Passion or a murderous housewife in Serial Mom. All too aware that femme fatales had a short shelf life, she picked her next project carefully, quickly clarifying that she had much more to offer than a pretty face with a gravelly voice. ![]() Turner’s sizzling performance in Body Heat turned the former struggling waitress into one of the most beloved stars of the 1980s and ’90s. Everyone kept saying ‘Sure, she’s sexy, but can she be funny?’ I mean, fuck me-it’s called acting!” “I’m lucky I escaped Body Heat being typecast as just a sex symbol. ![]() “I was never meant to be an ingenue,” the 67-year-old says with a laugh. The effect of Turner’s voice in person, seated in a corner booth at The Odeon in Tribeca, is nothing short of intoxicating: It has a lower, huskier quality now than it did in those old films. Pick any random review of Body Heat or Romancing the Stone, and you’ll likely see it described as smoky, sexy, sensuous, tobacco-cured, or scotch-laden. Kathleen Turner’s voice has always commanded attention.
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