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Just one day separated Anne Heche snagging the “Six Days, Seven Nights” role and her going public with her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, Us Weekly noted. Heche took DeGeneres to the “Volcano” premiere, sending the media into a frenzy. Producers of her upcoming movie had a swift reaction to the news. “I would not have gotten that movie,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2020.
But the star of the movie, Harrison Ford, would have it no other way. “He said, ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn who you’re sleeping with,'” she recalled. “‘We’re gonna make the best romantic comedy there is and I’ll see ya on the set.'” Because Ford put his foot down, producers had no option but to continue with Heche as the female lead. And Heche was always grateful. “He fought a battle for me and I would be on any desert island with him any day,” she said. “He’s an extraordinary human being.”
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It came with a cost, as the studio drastically reduced her pay. “Everyone was like, ‘Oh, my God, Harrison said yes, so I don’t know, negotiate the deal. Just do it!'” she said on the “Trading Secrets with Jason Tartick” podcast in 2021 (via Us Weekly). But Heche was just happy to have a job. “Harrison Ford truly is my hero. I have done an honoring to him because the truth of the matter is that I owe him my public life,” she said.
