{"id":14159,"date":"2026-03-01T15:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:38:04","slug":"no-ghee-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/01\/no-ghee-na\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ghee-na!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gina Gershon says she turned down role after Prince wanted to rebrand her with a single name<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By CASSIE CARPENTER, US SHOW BUSINESS REPORTER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gina Gershon had a glamorous, close encounter with the late great Prince Rogers Nelson in 1983 while he was searching for someone to play his onscreen leading lady in the film Purple Rain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gina Gershon<\/a> had a glamorous, close encounter with the late great Prince Rogers Nelson in 1983 while he was searching for someone to play his onscreen leading lady in the film Purple Rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘”Prince wants to meet you. He’s doing a movie and the lead woman has to be able to sing, dance and act. I told him about you,”‘ a musician friend told the 63-year-old Showgirls alum – according to Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, Gershon was still a senior enrolled at New York University pursuing a BFA degree in drama and psychology\/philosophy but she eagerly took the trip to Minnesota<\/a> where the Purple One picked her up by limousine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Daily Mail Gina Gershon says she turned down role after Prince wanted to rebrand her with a single name By CASSIE CARPENTER, US SHOW BUSINESS REPORTER Gina Gershon had a glamorous, close encounter with the late great Prince Rogers Nelson in 1983 while he was searching for someone to play his onscreen leading lady in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}