“There’s an exoticizing of her when they go to that salsa dancing [club],” notes Leonard, adding that the character lives in New York’s funky, hip Meatpacking District. “There’s just a sense of the exotic and the forbidden, this kind of underworld. But what’s interesting is, ultimately, the woman who’s presenting the exotic sexiness really just wants to have a baby. In so many ways, that has become the resounding drumbeat for women in popular culture: ‘It’s okay if you want to have your career, but don’t miss out on your opportunity to have a family, because you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.’”

— Qutoed in Tim Grierson, “How Fatal Attraction Forever Changed Our View of the ‘Crazy’ Other Woman”