‘Showgirls’ Star Elizabeth Berkley Moved to Tears by Queer Community’s Support
The 1995 film Showgirls was a critically slammed, commercial flop at the time of its release, but since then the film has seen a resurgence and become a cult classic—thanks mostly to the LGBTQ community, according to the film’s star Elizabeth Berkley.
“You always believed as did I and for that I’m eternally grateful,” Berkeley said while introducing a screening of the film at the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater.
There were “things that we really pushed the boundary at that time that now have been embraced,” Berkley also said, “Not misunderstood but truly embraced.”