Ford charmed as a mergers and acquisitions associate who succumbs to Melanie Griffith‘s secretary-posing-as-an-executive in Mike Nichols‘ 1988 romantic dramedy– which was chosen for 6 Oscars, consisting of Best Picture.
“Great fun,” Ford remembered to Vanity Fair, keeping in mind Nichols, who passed away in 2014, as a “smart guy.”
After a run of action films and thrillers, the star stated he was trying to find “something different, something challenging…It was a very interesting time.”
Shooting Working Girl was “more like a party than a movie,” he informed THR “I always loved shooting in New York, especially with Mike, because we never failed to have a nice lunch.”
Too much of a celebration for some, however. Griffith exposed in an interview for the 2019 book Life Isn’t Everything, a collection of remembrances about Nichols, that the production briefly closed down after the director discovered she was having actually drugs provided to the set.
“Mike got so mad at me, he wouldn’t talk to me,” she remembered. “I understood I remained in a lot problem. The next early morning [Nichols] took me to breakfast and stated, ‘Here’s what’s going to occur. You’re going to spend for last night out of your pocket. We’re not going to report you to the studio, however you need to spend for what it cost,’ and it was $80,000 They wished to get my attention and they truly did. It was a really humbling, humiliating experience, however I found out a lot from it.”
