Linda Harrison(I)

She was to be the sheriff's (Roy Scheider) wife in Lo squalo (1975), which her husband Richard D. Zanuck was producing. However, Universal chief Sid Sheinberg wanted his own wife, Lorraine Gary, to have the part. Since Sheinberg was Zanuck's boss, Gary got it.

[on her character "Nova" in Il pianeta delle scimmie (1968)] I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were like Nova. Automatically, I'd say that's about 80% of the part. The director, the producer and the writer talked with me about her, and they described her as "sub-human." We hadn't really had an actress play "sub-human" before. Nova's not like Raquel Welch's character in Un milione di anni fa (1966). She was more primitive because of the apes' suppression. We played it by ear and experimented. It was really a moment-to-moment thing.