Linda Fiorentino

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q204393: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (7 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (9) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career peak): Linda Fiorentino → The Last Seduction. Her peak (Apex Mountain) is The Last Seduction or Men in Black; she lost Oscar eligibility because it aired on HBO first.
    “Linda Firentino, last seduction 1994, which she should have gotten nominated for an Oscar, but they had released it on HBO first.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:03 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (actor energy): Ella Raines → Linda Fiorentino. Raines has a bit of Linda Fiorentino energy.
    “she has a little bit of a Linda Fiorentino energy.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:51:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (same-year role): Linda Fiorentino → Vision Quest. Fiorentino is also in Vision Quest in 1985, whose premise is a high school kid and the hot lady upstairs.
    “She's in this envision quest in the same year.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:52 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → The Sopranos. Bill is baffled that David Chase never gave Fiorentino a 3-4 episode arc.
    “I don't know how Linda Fiorentino was never on the Sopranos.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:50 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → Goodfellas. Scorsese calls her 'the great' but couldn't find a place for her in Goodfellas or Kundun.
    “Couldn't find a place in Goodfellas for her.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Linda Fiorentino: In the massage scene Dunn was too relaxed, so Scorsese stopped the take and asked if he got laid.
    “Marty was like, did you get laid, you fucker?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:54:32 · unknown host (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Linda Fiorentino: Bill's long riff: why wasn't she ever on The Sopranos; he proposes a one-episode arc where she messes with Tony and he kills her.
    “She could have done a one episode arc where she's just fucking with Tony and then Tony kills her.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:11 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Linda Fiorentino: The Last Seduction was sold to HBO when it couldn't get theaters, then ran its awards campaign and was ruled ineligible, the year Jessica Lange won for Blue Sky.
    “And that was the year Jessica Lang won for Blue Sky, which had been made 4 years earlier.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)