Jessica Rabbit
Jessica Rabbit
Jessica Rabbit (née Krupnick) is a fictional character in the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She is depicted as the human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in various Roger Rabbit media. Jessica is renowned as one of the best-known sex symbols in animation.
Novel
Author Gary K. Wolf based Jessica primarily on the cartoon character Red) from Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood, though he also based her attitude on Tinker Bell) and her design on Margaret Kerry.
Film
The film version of the character was inspired by various actresses. Richard Williams) explained, "I tried to make her like Rita Hayworth, we took her hair from Veronica Lake, and Robert Zemeckis kept saying, 'What about the look Lauren Bacall had?'" He described that combination as an "ultimate male fantasy, drawn by a cartoonist". Before Zemeckis was brought on board as director, Jessica had a different design, and was to be voiced by Russi Taylor. Taylor would go on to provide the voice in test footage from 1981. When Zemeckis was hired, he brought along Kathleen Turner to voice Jessica, whom he had worked with in Romancing the Stone. In a 2017 interview, Turner, who went uncredited, stated that she accepted the role because she was pregnant and "just had to show up and do her voice".
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