![]() Adrian/Andy is also described as having strange hands and feet, perhaps clubbed hands and feet or cloven hooves, like a goat or a stereotypical demon, in "Rosemary's Baby." But this idea is not followed through in the sequel where his hands and feet are normal. There is a line or two in "Son of Rosemary" about him getting contacts or "using black magic " to normalize his eyes. In the sequel novel "Son of Rosemary." Andy (AKA Adrian) is not hideous and monstrous like he is in "Rosemary's Baby," where he has demon eyes, or more specifically, "tiger eyes", as Ira Levin describes them in the book. In contrast, in the movie, Rosemary just waits until caretaker Laura-Louise has left the room before she confronts the coven. Rosemary then tells them she didn't kill Leah, she just put her to sleep. At this point they, seeing Leah is unconscious, accuse Rosemary of killing Leah, but Roman tells Rosemary not to worry, she wasn't well liked anyway, and the coven would cover for Rosemary as long as she played the mother role to her satanic child Andy. In the novel, Rosemary drugs Leah, waits till she falls asleep, and then confronts the coven in the other room. In the book, this caretaker appointed by the coven to watch over Rosemary is named Leah, but in the movie, it was instead Laura-Louise, a character who, in the book, is a second woman in the apartment building who takes care of Rosemary following her birth along with Leah. Sapirstein has been giving her and spikes her caretaker's drink with it. The movie deletes a scene from the novel where Rosemary stockpiles the sleeping pills Dr. All of this plays into the movie's overall themes of the seductiveness and the predatory nature of cults like this and how they lure people in and then victimize them. ![]() And Davis in fact stayed with the church for years until one of the hedonistic orgy type parties the church threw got way out of hand for various reasons and Davis suddenly disillusioned wound up fleeing the party and the church all at once. This appealed to Davis during the libertine late 60s. And he stayed in the cult for awhile, which he understood not to be about devil-worship but about unbridled naturism and hedonism about enjoying the pleasures of the flesh. Because Sammy Davis Junior joined the church of Satan during this period the late 60s and early 70s when the movie came out. This is both ironic and pertinent to the story in fact it's likely more purposeful symbolism and subconscious messaging telegraphed by Roman Polanski to the audience. Sapirstein, a role eventually filled by Ralph Bellamy.Īt one point in the movie Rosemary can be seen reading "Yes I Can" which is the autobiography of Sammy Davis Jr. He even tried to convince Polanski to let him play the part of Dr. For Minnie and Roman Castevet, William Castle suggested Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the famous Broadway acting duo. Laurence Harvey begged to do it, Warren Beatty turned it down claiming "Hey! Can't I play Rosemary?", before the part was offered to John Cassavetes. Other actors considered were Richard Chamberlain, Jack Nicholson and James Fox. Both men wanted Robert Redford for the role of Guy Woodhouse, but negotiations broke down when Paramount's lawyers blundered by serving the actor with a subpoena over a contractual dispute regarding his pulling out of Silvio Narizzano's film Blue (1968). Robert Evans suggested Mia Farrow based on her TV work and her media appeal (at the time she was Mrs. Other actresses considered for the part were Julie Christie, Elizabeth Hartman and Joanna Pettet. ![]() According to his memoirs, Polanski for a while had the idea of having his future wife Sharon Tate on the part of Rosemary, but he decided not to because it would have been unethical. Jane Fonda was then approached, but turned down the offer so she could make Барбарелла (1968) in Europe with then-husband Roger Vadim. Casting for this film presented its own problems: Roman Polanski at first saw Rosemary as an "All-American Girl" and sought Tuesday Weld for the lead, but she passed.
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