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Michael Douglas confirms years of rumors: Yes, she bit me! | BT Kendte - www.bt.dk In the early 80's, Debra Winger was a hot name. Everyone wanted to work with her after the 'Wonder Woman' series and the Oscar-winning 'An Officer and a Gentleman'. Everyone - except her acting colleague Michael Douglas. For since 1984, when the movie 'Romancing the Stone' came out, there have been rumors that Michael Douglas refused to have Debra Winger in the lead role on the love drama he produced because she bit him in the arm. And now the 77-year-old actor confirms the tenacious rumors in the Rob Lowe podcast ''. Actors Michael Douglas and Debra Winger. According to Michael Douglas, he and Debra Winger met for a tequila shot at a Mexican restaurant in Texas with the hope that Debra Winger would play the writer Joan Wilder, who falls in love with Michael Douglas' role in the jungle, the adventurer Jack Colton. 'We go out then, and just like you would say,' Hey, you! ' and give someone a little hug in the arm, you know, like a joke, then she says: 'Hey, you!', and she reaches over and she bites me - in the arm! ', says Michael Douglas in the podcast. Debra Winger even gets bitten through the skin on him, and that was the limit, Michael Douglas had to explain to the rest of the team in the film. "I burst into tears and say, 'I can not go out into the jungle with her - she bit me in the arm!'" So the lead role as Joan Wilder went instead to Kathleen Turner, who ended up being awarded a Golden Globe for performance. Kathleen Turner has also - unlike Debra Winger - commented on rumors of the famous bite. In her biography 'Send Yourself Roses', the 67-year-old actress reported that she got the role instead of Debra Winger because she and Michael Douglas "did not get along with each other". "They met to discuss it at a Mexican restaurant, and she asked him, or at least he said so," the biography from 2008 states. sorry: B.T. thinks Weekendavisen ukraine Atomvåben Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 København KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13