“My motivation was not so much Jessica Rabbit but trying to see cartoon nudity,” he says, “and it was to see if the urban legends being passed around sophomore year in high school were true about something ‘subversively snuck in’ a Disney venture.” One Jessica Rabbit fan, who referred to himself as “Dodgey” in an interview with MEL, became obsessed with finding that scene. With a pedigree like that, it’s no wonder that when the film released to LaserDisc, rumors spread about a potential Jessica Rabbit upskirt scene, leading to an uptick in sales two years after the movie premiered.Įven today, nearly three decades later, the YouTube clip of the “booby trap” scene has racked up over 1 million views: So there’s a direct link from Marilyn to Jess.” “I envisioned Jessica as Tinkerbell grown up and funky, when I told this to Marc Davis, who designed Tink for Peter Pan, he told me that he based Tink on Marilyn Monroe. Also Red Hot Riding Hood, Tex Avery’s character,” he says. “Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Ava Gardner. Though most of the internet accepts the actress and model Vikki Dougan to be the sole inspiration for Jessica Rabbit, Wolf says Jessica was based on a number of women - both real and animated. My book had to leave that to my readers’ imaginations.” “You could hear her voice and see how she moved. “The movie was able to do something I couldn’t - show what she looked like,” Wolf tells MEL. On why she struck such a chord with audiences, he says it was “her looks, obviously, but also her take-no-prisoners, independent attitude. Jessica Rabbit may have been millennials’ original animated crush object, and Wolf says there’s reason for that. Getting a date, especially if you were the captain of the checkers team, was virtually impossible.” “But I come from a small town in Illinois where the boys outnumbered the girls 35 to 1. “I’ve been told by Hollywood execs that if Jessica is my idea of a woman, perhaps I should stick to writing Turkish prison movies or war movies - anything where I don’t have to deal with real woman and real women’s issues,” he explains. “I created Jessica to be the girl I would have dated if I could have dated a girl,” Wolf tells MEL. The voluptuous seductress Jessica Rabbit, voiced by Kathleen Turner, became an iconic animated crush object - captivating a generation of boys and girls who bore witness to her tight red dress and femme fatale demeanor. Roger wasn’t the only tentpole on the rise. Seven years later, the Disney adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, became a blockbuster hit - it’s credited for spearheading the ’90s “ Disney Renaissance.” Wolf, a decorated 41-year-old Vietnam War veteran, published what would become a cult classic and his most famous work: Who Censored Roger Rabbit?.
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