Forgotten femme fatale 'invented reverse-cowgirl' and was movie sex scene 'aggressor'

A screen siren with a flair for playing femme fatales, Linda Fiorentino was a rising star in the 1990s.

She spent the best part of a decade honing her acting talents in a string of under-the-radar movies, before Jon Dahl’s 1994 neo-noir erotic thriller, The Last Seduction, propelled her to the next level of Hollywood stardom.

In the film, she plays villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory, who convinces her husband Clay, played by Bill Pullman, to sell drugs before stealing their ill-gotten gains and making a run for it.

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Using sex as her main weapon, she persuades her next conquest, played by Peter Berg, to run a scam, before things take a darker, deadly, turn as she asks him to kill her husband.

Fiorentino, who turns 65 today (March 9), went on to star in movies including Men in Black, but seemingly stopped acting in 2002 and stepped away from the limelight.

In some quarters, it was claimed she was difficult to work with, which led to jobs drying up.

However, Berg, now 58, has since spoken about the qualities she showed on the set of The Last Seduction.

He described her as an “aggressor” in sex scenes, even claiming she invented the reverse cowgirl sex position.

Berg told Vulture: “I was hanging on for dear life in those scenes. Linda was by far the aggressor.”

He said she exuded “sexual power”, adding: “She unzipped my pants, reached down, and grabbed a hold of me and squeezed hard with a handful of ice. That’s when I knew I had my hands full with Fiorentino.”

Fiorentino was reportedly offered a body double for her nude scenes, but opted to do them herself.

Berg recalled: “I was being all nervous, and Linda was just smoking a cigarette, watching.

“After about ten minutes of me rambling on, she threw down the cigarette, looked at me, told me to shut the f*** up, take my pants down, and get up against the fence.”

Describing another infamous scene, Berg said Fiorentino was an innovator.

He said: “The reverse-cowgirl scene in the car, that was reverse cowgirl before there was even a name for it, you know what I mean?

“Linda Fiorentino created reverse cowgirl, and I was her horse.”

In 1997, Fiorentino landed a major role in sci–fi comedy Men in Black opposite Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

She claimed she won the role in a poker game, but director Barry Sonnenfeld told Insider that was nonsense.

In 1999, she stared in Kevin Smith’s irreverent comedy Dogma alongside Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Smith later claimed she had been difficult to work with.

Her last notable role came in the straight-to-video film, Liberty Stands Still, in 2002.

Since then, her only credit has been in another independent movie, Once More With Feeling, in 2009.

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