Guess Who Nearly Played Vicki Vale?


Patsy Kensit, that’s who. If you’ve never heard of her, then she has starred in such movies as Lethal Weapon II and a bunch of terrible British soaps such as Emmerdale and Holby City. She revealed that she auditioned for the role of Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman, but ultimately lost to Kim Basinger.

“I got called in to read for Tim Burton for a role in the first Batman film; I didn’t get it obviously.”

She then went on to say that her failure led to her being spotted by a casting director and landing a role in Lethal Weapon II.

“I though ‘It’ll never happen.’ Two weeks later she said can you come to Warner Bros, and I turned up, walked into a room, and there was Mel Gibson, and Richard Donner the director, and Joel Silver, all sitting there.

“At that time Mel Gibson was becoming probably the biggest star on the planet, and they just asked me to cold read, and they said ‘Okay. Can you get a costume and get fitted up? You start in six weeks.'”

SOURCE: Yahoo! Movies UK