Trivia / Daryl Hannah

• Baby Name Trend Starter: Her character in Splash singlehandedly transformed the virtually unknown boys' name "Madison" from a street sign into one of the most popular girls' names. Exaggerated because of its staying power: it took over a decade to reach the heights. The name became the second-most popular name in the US for two years just after the Turn of the Millennium before decreasing and leaving the top ten during the middle of The New '10s, over thirty years after the film's release. Consequently, the joke is lost on current viewers.
  "It's funny because no one understands the irony, because the whole point of me choosing that name was because it [was such a] silly name..." — Daryl Hannah
• Career Resurrection: Experienced a comeback in the early 2000s that culminated with Kill Bill.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Daryl Hannah was never happy about playing Bud's materialistic girlfriend Darien in Wall Street and has never even seen the finished film. She considered the role to be at odds with everything the actress and activist represented. Sean Young^note who was unpopular on the set and especially didn't get along with (i.e. was hated by) Charlie Sheen, who played Bud, to the point he once stuck a sign on her back saying "I am a cunt" and nobody bothered to tell her about it told Oliver Stone that she should play her role. Stone later admitted that Young and Hannah should have swapped roles. Hannah said in an interview that it was a "rough experience", and that she and Stone also had an "unhealthy working relationship". At the time of filming she accused Stone of being a misogynist. She said "film is a collaborate medium. Sometimes you hook up with people you don't collaborate well with."
  • According to Hannah, the original script for the 1984 teen film Reckless did not have any nudity or sex in it. However, when the film’s director James Foley decided to add scenes of nudity and sex in the final film, Daryl ended up breaking out in hives from being naked and doing love scenes.
  • When asked in that same 2010 interview with The Guardian what the lowest point in her career was, Daryl said it was starring in a bunch of Direct to Video movies in the 2000s, which she only did for the cash:
    "Doing some films just for the cash, which hopefully went straight to video and no one ever saw".
  • With the exception of Blade Runner ^note which Hannah considered to be her "career high point", she does not look fondly at any of the films she appeared in prior to her Star-Making Role in Splash^note Those films being The Fury, Hard Country, Summer Lovers, The Final Terror, and Reckless. In fact, whenever it was brought up in interviews, Daryl would become embarrassed and apologize for starring in them:
    "Oh, God, I’m sorry. Embarrassing."
• Creator's Favorite: When Daryl was asked in a 2010 interview with The Guardian what her "career high point" was, she said it was the film Blade Runner:
  "It was like The Wizard of Oz: we all went into another reality."
• Reclusive Artist: Daryl suffered from such paralyzing shyness and social anxiety (due in a large share to her being autistic) that it made it challenging for her to venture out on talk shows, premieres, or award shows like the Oscars as a means of promoting her work. In a 2010 interview, Hannah proclaimed that her difficulties with social interactions ultimately had a seriously detrimental effect on her career:
  "I never went on talk shows, never went to premieres. Going to the Academy Awards was so painful for me. I'd almost faint just walking down the red carpet. I was so socially awkward and uncomfortable that I eventually got blacklisted. Studio executives would call me but I'd be too shy to call them back. So after a while a couple of studios literally told my manager that I was blacklisted."
• Star-Derailing Role: Kill Bill, ironically, as it was what brought her into contact with Harvey Weinstein.
• Star-Making Role: Madison the mermaid in Splash.