Michelle Pfeiffer Predicted Stardom for Keanu Reeves on Set of 1988’s ‘Dangerous Liaisons’

Michelle Pfeiffer predicted stardom for a young, unidentified Keanu Reeves.

That discovery comes as supervisor Stephen Frears signs up with The Hollywood Press reporter’s It Occurred in Hollywood podcast to go over the production of his 1988 hit, Dangerous Liaisons.

The movie starred Glenn Close and John Malkovich, playing conniving aristocrats in pre-French Transformation Paris that control individuals around them with sex and deceptiveness. Amongst their targets are personalities played by Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman.

Reeves, after that 23, was cast as Le Chevalier Danceny, a good-looking artist that attracts the focus of Close’s Marquise de Merteuil and loves Thurman’s ignorant ingénue– after that battles Malkovich’s Valmont for her honor.

Talking on the podcast, Frears remembered that Expense & & Ted’s Outstanding Experience was launched simply months after Dangerous Liaisons, transforming Reeves over night right into a significant film celebrity.

“But when he shot, he hadn’t [yet broken out,]” Frears claimed. “I saw a lot of young actors [for the role] and said, ‘I like him.’ [Screenwriter] Christopher Hampton actually thought I’d gone mad. But I said, ‘No, no — he’s the one.’”

“He was the best person I saw,” he proceeded. “In the end, you have to believe in things. And he made it all believable. You could see that Glenn would want to go to bed with him, and people would fall in love with him. He was a sweet boy.”

Reeves shown up in Paris for the shoot looking “completely lost.” Yet after investing simply a little time with him, Pfeiffer informed Frears that Reeves was predestined to end up being “a big star.”

“They all took a shine to him — the girls [on the set],” Frears claims.

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