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Whatever happened to Linda Kozlowski?

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (20304)
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https://www.thelist.com/175017/whatever-happened-to-linda-kozlowski/

Linda Kozlowski was a struggling actress when she auditioned for a movie whose star and creator was an obscure Australian actor whose name elicited puzzled looks in Hollywood. She landed the part, not realizing that audition would forever shape her life when the low-budget comedy about a crocodile hunter from the Australian Outback turned out to be one of the biggest movies of 1986.

Crocodile Dundee went on to earn a staggering $328 million at the international box office — not too shabby for a movie that cost about $7 million to make (which reportedly included investments from a few wealthy cricket players and INXS singer Michael Hutchence), making star Paul Hogan a household name and a hot property in Hollywood.

Yet with all that success, Kozlowski pulled a vanishing act. She hasn't appeared onscreen since 2001, when she revived her Crocodile Dundee role for the ill-fated sequel Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. For an actress who played the female lead in one of the biggest films of the 1980s, her career went surprisingly quiet in the years that followed. So what happened? Read on and discover the amazing secret behind Linda Kozlowski's exit from Hollywood.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18170) 4 years ago

She got old and had a bad plastic job.

[–] Esterhowse (468) 4 years ago

"Yet with all that success, Kozlowski pulled a vanishing act."

Crocodile Dundee was that success.

Not Kozlowshi or Paul Hogan. Neither one of them really did anything other than the Dundee Movies. His next biggest product was that shitty Flipper remake.

She really wasn't much in the Dundee movies. Her biggest contribution was that string one piece she wore.

[–] TMC-4 (20304) 2 years ago

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She really only had one big role back in the day. She got the role by sleeping with the lead who later became her husband. After the final installment of the franchise with her husband she never acted again. Divorced from her husband, she is experiencing the same behavior from her current boyfriend who beats her regularly. She went to the emergency room not long ago and said she had fallen down some stairs. Linda Kozlowski/Paul Hogan ("Crocodile Dundee")

[–] TMC-4 (20304) 2 years ago

I was just looking at Linda Kozlowski's filmography:
ttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468957/

I too, am very surprised that she really with all due respect, had a very underwhelming film and television career once you subtract the Crocodile Dundee franchise. Like the originally linked article said, I would think that being the female lead in one of the biggest films of the 1980s would've opened the door for more high profile projects.

I wonder if one issue is that Linda likely had to compete with women like Sharon Stone (who admittedly, has a similar physical and vocal type) for roles:
https://www.filmboards.com/board/t/her-voice...-2423101/

I also suspect that Linda's success was seen by most people as too strictly tied to her eventual husband, Paul Hogan's success. She by her own admission however, turned down lots of stuff:

https://en.newsner.com/celebrity/linda-kozlowski-crocodile-dundee-today/

“After Crocodile Dundee I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I’d play the girlfriend of some funny man,” Kozlowski said, explaining that she used the scripts for a whole different reason.

“I use them for kindling, to get the fire started,” she said.

“That’s about all they’re good for. I was getting very depressed, but finally something good did come along–‘Pass the Ammo.’ That’s been a long time coming out, but now there’s a release date.”

In 2001, Linda Kozlowski appeared in the third Crocodile Dundee film. But that was her last appearance in any production to this day.

So it seems like, she was worried about being typecast as the straight-woman/love interest to another quirky, eccentric character like Mick Dundee.

[–] TMC-4 (20304) a year ago

Also by the looks of it, Linda didn't do herself any favors by getting extremely picky when she wasn't yet in a position to do that. So you could argue that she didn't do a very good job at "playing the game" and/or she overestimated her appeal or self-worth as an actress and performer.