Michael Douglas said Debra Winger was set to co-star in “Romancing The Stone”/1984” but lost out to Kathleen Turner after a bizarre biting incident.
After knocking down a couple of tequilas with dinner, Douglas and Winger walked outside.
Douglas gives Winger a punch on her arm “Oh, You!” and she went “Oh, You!” and bites him on the arm.
—-“She bites me. She’s joking around and I’m looking at her, she’s broken the skin”—-
Douglas went back to Director Robert Zemeckis and said he couldn’t work alongside Winger after the biting episode.
—-“I can’t go to the jungle with her. I can’t do it”—-
Ms. Winger and Shirley MacLaine played loving mom and daughter in “Terms of Endearment”/1983.
Ms. MacLaine became fed up Winger’s antics including one rumored incident where Winger lifted her dress to fart in MacLaine’s direction.