Jessica Rabbit is a fictional character who is part of Gary Wolf's 1981 novel, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”, And that we met in the film produced in 1988 "Who cheated on roger rabbit?
This film, starring Bob Hoskins and Charles Fleischer and produced by Touchstone Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, combined real characters with cartoons.
The combination of reality and fiction surprised all of us who attended the big screen. In the project 1988 million dollars were invested in that year 70. Although at the time it was the film with the largest budget in history, the box office rewarded the investment. There is talk of more than 150 million dollars in revenue.
The plot of the movie was around a private detective investigating a famous murder and had, as the main suspect, a friendly rabbit anime named Roger Rabbit.
The glamorous wife of the alleged murderer
Jessica was Roger Rabbit's wife and became a true animation sex symbol. One of her phrases in the film has remained for posterity: "I'm not bad, it's that they've drawn me like that."
Where does the inspiration for the Jessica Rabbit character come from? Writer Gary K. Wolf claims it was based on a character from the short titled “Tex Avery, Red Hot Riding Hood ”.
Was your drawing inspired by an actress? At the time, Richard Williams, one of its creators, stated “I tried to make it like Rita hayworth; we take her hair from Veronica lake and Zemeckis kept saying "How about how he looked Lauren Bacall? '.
Jessica Rabit embodied the male sexual fantasy, represented in an animated character. It should be noted that Jessica Rabbit was originally conceived with a different design than the one we finally met on the big screen.
Some movie curves
Jessica always wears a very provocative red dress with a lush chest that is about to escape an inappropriate cleavage. And with this outfit he walks, quite naturally, through the city.
Although actress Veronica Lake was, from the first moment, the actress who seemed to inspire the carefree Jessica, there are other options.
Everything seems to indicate that Vikki Dougan and her photoshoot For Life magazine in a tight black dress, her appearances in Playboy and other images, she would be the true model in the flesh for the creation of Jessica Rabbit.