Kathleen Turner Heats Up the Radio With Sultry Look at Cinema's 'Femmes Fatales'

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Host what you know. That’s one way to sum up Femmes Fatales, a BBC Radio 4 special that debuted over the weekend with actress and author Kathleen Turner at the helm.

In 1981, Turner singed the screen as femme fatale Matty Walker in Body Heat. Speaking with Radio Times magazine assistant features editor Kasia Delgado about the one-hour BBC project, Turner recalled the great compliment she was paid about her debut film performance by Barbara Stanwyck, star of Double Indemnity, as well as some less elegant reaction among Hollywood’s young male stars of the time:

“I’ve never lived in L.A.,”

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