In a 2017 interview, Kline seemed to reveal her mother didn’t enjoy being a “celebrity”. Her daughter Greta Kline has managed to make a name for herself in the music world, under the name Frankie Cosmos. “Movies aren’t really made that way anymore,” she sighed, referring to Gremlins. When asked why she went into retail and wasn’t returning to the screen, she told NBC’s The Big Idea “acting wasn’t really an option for me”.Īnd at a Gremlins reunion in 2015, she seemed annoyed at Hollywood’s reliance on computer generated imagery. In 2005, Cates opened a women’s clothing boutique in New York. Phoebe Cates at a rare public event, attending the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. She did however make a small comeback in 2001, but only as a favour to her Fast Times co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh, starring in her directorial debut The Anniversary Party.īut that’s the only time she’s ever tested her acting chops. “We have agreed to alternate so that we’re never working at the same time … (but) whenever it’s been her slot to work, Phoebe has chosen to stay with the children,” Kline revealed. The couple, who have a 16 year age gap, are still together, and live in New York City with their kids, Owen, 27, and Greta, 25.Ĭates has never really given any clarity about why she quit acting, with her Oscar winning actor husband shedding a bit of insight to Playboy in 1998 that it initially wasn’t her intention to quit. Sadly, it received mixed reviews and didn’t do great at the box office.Īfter that, Cates seemed to shift her priority to being a mother, after having two children with fellow actor Kevin Kline, who she married in 1989. Phoebe Cates in scene from film Princess Caraboo. When Steven Spielberg was casting for the 1984 classic Gremlins, there were concerns among his colleagues that Cates shouldn’t be cast as Billy’s girlfriend, Kate, because she was too risque to play a more wholesome character.īut the veteran director pushed for her casting because of her electric chemistry with unknown actor Zach Galligan (Billy). While she had no issue stripping down, it did unfortunately see Cates become typecast and affect her ability to diversify her career. If you’ve got a good bod, then why not show it?” “In this business, if a girl wants a career, she has to be willing to strip. But the topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High was funny, which made it easy,” she said in a 1982 interview. They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified. “I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes in Paradise. Playing sexually charged roles, and appearing nude in many of her films, didn’t seem to bother Cates, who spoke like a true feminist ahead of her time. After that she was cast in the leading role of the television miniseries Lace in 1984, yet again as a sex symbol, Lili, who scours the country in search of her birth mother. Cates then played Christine Ramsey, a desirable high school girl, in the reasonably successful 1983 movie Private School.
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