Fantasy Island
1977
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Release Dates | Official Sites | Company Credits | Filming & Production | Technical Specs. Blade Runner (1982) Joanna Cassidy as Zhora.
In 1982, she played replicant Zhora Salome in science fiction film Blade Runner. Cassidy starred in the political thriller film Under Fire (1983), winning a Sant Jordi Award for Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film, as well as receiving a nomination for the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress .
Zhora – who is loosely based on the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? character, Luba Luft – is portrayed by Joanna Cassidy, who was cast primarily because of her physique and the fact that she had a pet Burmese python named Darling, which was used as Zhora's snake in the film.
Zhora is a replicant working as an exotic dancer at a club owned by a dude named Taffey Lewis. She performs using an artificial snake, and she has a snake tattoo on her neck. In fact, Deckard tracks her down with help from a snake scale that he found in the shower at Leon's apartment, which leads him to the club where she's working.
ZHORA & BLADE RUNNER. The past is full of secrets; the future yet unknown, I for one would speak of this, Perhaps failing to sound like a drone. But if I did, I dare you all to leave it lay, This perfect movie of its day. ‘Tis the end and a beginning, a beginning of an end, A puzzle, a mystery, youth and age.
The 1980s also brought about positive, critical reception for Joanna on film as well, especially in a number of showy portrayals, notably her snake-dancing replicant in the futuristic sci-fi thriller Blade Runner (1982), her radio journalist involved with Nick Nolte and Ed Harris in the political drama Under Fire (1983) and her co-starring role ...
