Rich Pelley 

Post your questions for Gina Gershon

What did she do with that chicken drumstick? Did she really play the jaw harp for the Scissor Sisters? As her new movie High Rollers is released, the actor is ready to answer all
  
  

Gina Gershon in Permission, 2017
Scene-stealer … Gina Gershon in Permission, 2017. Photograph: Picture Films/Allstar

Gina Gershon has been on our screens for nearly 40 years, during which she has starred in scene-stealing roles opposite some of Hollywood’s biggest actors. In her more likable moments, she orders an orgasm from cocktail-maker Tom Cruise in Cocktail (“How many would you like?” “Multiple” – fnar fnar) and takes a bullet for Nicolas Cage in Face/Off. In her less likable (but equally scene-stealing) moments, she receives a lapdance from – and gets pushed down the stairs by – Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls, chops Val Kilmer into small pieces in Breathless, gets murdered under the supposed watch of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi in Red Heat, and is forced by Matthew McConaughey to simulate oral sex on a chicken drumstick in Killer Joe. Ahem.

Now Gershon stars as the wife of Vegas thief John Travolta in High Rollers, although, from the trailer, in which she gets kidnapped to force Travolta to work, it’s hard to see if we’re dealing with a nice or nasty Gina. But that won’t stop her having plenty to talk about; ask her anything. Maybe her first bit part in 1986’s Pretty in Pink or becoming a gay icon for starring as a lesbian ex-con in the Wachowskis’ first film, Bound in 1996. Or there’s that time in Curb Your Enthusiasm where she offers to have sex with Larry David as his birthday present from Cheryl. She has also parodied Melania Trump on more than one occasion. And perhaps most bizarrely of all, she played the jaw harp on the second Scissor Sisters album.

Please get your questions in for Gina by 6pm BST Monday 2 June, and we’ll print her answers in Film & Music later in June.

• High Rollers is on digital platforms from 16 June

 

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