"This is how this whole thing got started, because we want to figure out the key ingredients required to snap our fingers." "We got into this heated debate, trying to understand if he could actually snap or not," Bhamla said. By placing the stones inside a metal "Infinity Gauntlet," Thanos planned to wipe out half of all the living creatures in the universe with a mere snap of his fingers.īut for some of the scientists, performing a finger snap while wearing a metal gauntlet was the step too far.
(Image credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)īhamla said the inspiration for the research came from an argument he had with his students after watching the 2018 Marvel Studios movie "Avengers: Infinity War," in which Thanos, an 8-foot (2.4 meter) purple warlord from Saturn's moon Titan, seeks out six powerful "Infinity Stones" that will grant him the ability to bend and reshape the fabric of the universe according to his will. I already have my epitaph: “More woman than you’ll ever get and more man than you’ll ever be.”įinding My Voice is at the Other Palace in London from 17 April until 6 May (faneproductions.Thanos may have had the infinity gauntlet, but he lacked friction. I told her, “There could only be one Lauren Bacall.” Lauren Bacall once told me at a party: “Oh you’re the young me.” That was a little intimidating. I’m the one they send to City Hall twice a year to ask for money and as soon as they see me coming they go: “How much?” I serve on the board of Citymeals on Wheels in New York. I’ve always had a great belief in service and being able to effect change. But if I’d said I had a disease that wasn’t under control, no one would touch me. Robert Downey Jr was known for his drinking, but the studios still hired him. I was called a drunk and had awful things said about the way I looked, it was so cruel. I kept my illness a secret for years, I had no choice.
I can’t exaggerate what a battle it was against the endless pain and fear of what I’d end up like. I fired the doctor who told me I’d be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life after my diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in 1992. Not that he ever proposed, let’s not go wild! But I can’t imagine I’d have had the career I have if I’d been Mrs Douglas. I understood he was separated from his first wife, Diandra, at the time and I was unattached. There was a great chemistry between Michael Douglas and me when we did Romancing the Stone. After Body Heat I found out that Michael Douglas, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson would have competitions to see who could “get me”. I would finish a film and get on the first plane back to New York. There was a contempt for women in Hollywood. It doesn’t frustrate me that nearly four decades after that film I’m still referred to as a sexual icon. When I came back he’d died of a coronary thrombosis.īody Heat was a blessing because I went straight to being a leading actor and I didn’t have to suffer any of this predatory male behaviour like many young actresses. I was 17 and in defiance I got on the train to go and see the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford- upon-Avon. I had a lot of guilt when my father died the day after we’d had a huge fight over me wanting to become an actress. He was a diplomat so I lived in Cuba and Venezuela before he was posted to London and I attended the American School. And from my father I got a sense of responsibility and honour. From my mother I inherited a graciousness and innate courtesy. My parents were instrumental in the woman I became.