9. Demi Moore, nevertheless, was everybody’s very first option to play Molly, the love of Sam’s life whose guard is not surprisingly up when a psychic calls and declares she has an immediate message from her dead partner.
She wasn’t rather as sure. Just as stars like Toms Cruise and Hanks didn’t always wish to play a dead man, Moore didn’t always wish to play an individual who was unfortunate for practically a whole film. Ultimately, however, she saw Molly for the strong survivor that she was. “And I thought, ‘Wow, this is really a recipe for disaster,'” she remembered at an AFI screening of Ghost in 2013. “It’s either going to be something really special, really amazing, or really an absolute bust.”
Moore selected carefully. She was paid a reported $350,000 for Ghost, then went on to star in A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, The Scarlet Letter, Now and Then and more, all leading up to her record-setting $12.5 million payday for Striptease in 1996.
10. Moore’s hair was long when she was cast, so it was a surprise when she appeared with her now-iconic kid cut, thanks to hairdresser John Sahag. But could you envision Molly with long hair?
It was “kind of an in-your-face choice,” Rubin informed Vanity Fair in 2015. “It announced to us that she had her own ideas about who her character was.”
