Michael Douglas just confirmed what fans have quietly wondered for decades: he and Kathleen Turner were more than co-stars while filming“Romancing the Stone”in 1984. In his upcoming memoir“One Helluva Ride,”Douglas writes that the two fell for each other on set, calling it a relationship that started as friendship, moved into co-stardom, and ended as lovers, all while he was married to Diandra Luker, though the couple was separated during the shoot.
The details read like a plot twist. Douglas had already had a fling with screenwriter Diane Thomas before turning his attention to Turner, and he reportedly snuck into her hotel room without co-star Danny DeVito or director Robert Zemeckis knowing a thing. It all came crashing down when Luker confronted Turner on set in Mexico, prompting Turner to end things out of respect for the marriage. Both stars denied the relationship for 40 years, saying they kept the official story to protect Douglas’s ex-wife and son.
Turner once described the on-set chemistry as“wonderful sexual tension”while noting he was still married. Douglas now admits that trying to rekindle things later was a mistake. So the next time you watch that movie, the sparks are very real. What do you think: should old affairs stay private, or does a memoir confession set the record straight?
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