One of the actors interacting with Kit Ramsey is Daisy, the sweet-natured starlet from the Midwest played by Heather Graham. Cut from the same moral cloth as Bowfinger, she has enough smarts, sex appeal and guile to give the director a run for his money.
According to Graham, "When I first read the script I thought is was so well-written and funny. I've read it a million times and it still cracks me up. I get to be such a little tart in this movie."
When Daisy arrives in Hollywood, she's clueless as to how movies are made. She feels her opportunity arrives in the form of Bowfinger International Pictures and, with a little sexual cunning, is certain stardom is just around the corner.
"My character has a different sense of morality than other people. One of my journeys in this film is to figure out who has the most power, and upon discovering it's Bowfinger, I make a point of becoming romantic with him," says Graham.
Steve Martin gave funny lady Christine Baranski a plum role with Carol, a theatrical, delusional former stage actress who fondly remembers her brief moment in the sun.
"Outdated, draped in big jewelry, she is not the kind of actress you would see sitting in Spago's," says Baranski. "Carol never got to the third rung of the ladder, much less the top. She's still hanging in, and believes that this movie might allow her to shine brightly once again. Of course they're doing absolute schlock, but she wants it to be high art. Bowfinger, a fabulous con artist, feeds into her rather grand ego and makes her feel a part of the project ."
