Funny Casting Coincidence


At one point of this movie, Ivana Trump, you-know-who's first, and recently late, wife shows up to deliver the line "Don't get mad. Get everything."

The implication seems to be that the various shitty, cheating, contemptible husbands that appear throughout the movie, which the leading ladies are getting their revenge upon, are partly based on Trump, who was on wife #2 of 3 at the time of the film's production. And in an early scene the three leading ladies' best friend, played by Stockard Channing, commits suicide after her husband divorces her, and marries a younger, blonder woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Trump's second wife, Marla Maples.

The funny casting coincidence is that according to the IMDb trivia page, Marla is a cousin of Heather Locklear, the woman who played the onscreen 'other woman'/second wife character.

I don't know if the two blonde beauties have ever met (I don't believe they're first/direct cousins, even though they're about the same age), but if they have, I wonder if it was ever brought up that Locklear was basically playing a version of Maples.

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