Hot Shots! (2/5) Movie CLIP - The Food of Love (1991) HD - YouTube

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Rewind: Valeria Golino on Pee Wee Herman, Rain Man, Hot Shots, accents & more (1993) - YouTube

Valeria Golino "Hot Shots" 1991 - Bobbie Wygant Archive - YouTube

With her sultry looks, husky voice, and sensuous Italian accent, it's not surprising that actress Valeria Golino has had some memorable love scenes. As Tom Cruise's girlfriend in Rain Man, she gives Dustin Hoffman his first kiss. Her three-minute make-out with pre-arrest Pee-wee Herman (in Big Top Pee-wee) may now be a piece of motion-picture history. But nothing could have prepared audiences for her adroit moves with an olive in Hot Shots! [...] In a scene that makes mincemeat of the food fetishism in 9½ Weeks, Charlie Sheen raids Golino's refrigerator, then pops an olive into her navel and gives it a playful flick. With the agility of a trained seal, Golino snaps it up. By the scene's climax, Sheen's fixing breakfast—bacon and eggs—on her sizzling belly. "Part of it was my belly and part of it was a body double, to fry the eggs," Golino says—but she's justly proud of having performed every instant of the olive stunt. "We worked on tossing olives two days in advance, but when it came time to do it, it just took two takes," she says. "At that point I could have done it with closed eyes. You could send me three olives at a time, you know."

Mead, Rebecca. "Navel Maneuvers." New York Magazine, 12 Aug. 1991, https://books.google.com/books?id=E-kCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed date 23 Jun. 2024

The 26-year-old actress, who has a house in Los Angeles and an actor boyfriend in Rome, has been appearing in films in Italy and America for a decade, starting with Lina Wertmuller's "Joke of Destiny." But the Wertmuller film did not make her a reputation. Popping an olive from her navel into her mouth during a love scene with Mr. Sheen in "Hot Shots!" did.

Marin, Rick. "UP AND COMING: Valeria Golino; She Made Her Name Popping an Olive." The New York Times, 6 Jun. 1993, https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/movies/up-and-coming-valeria-golino-she-made-her-name-popping-an-olive.html. Accessed date 23 Jun. 2024

“When we filmed that love scene it was before all the computerised cheating that’s done now, “ [Charlie Sheen] says with a smile. “This is when you had to build actual effects and practical prosthetics. When Valeria shoots the olive from her belly button into her mouth, she had her hand snugged under a prosthetic torso and there was an air pressure hose in her belly button — but there’s still two feet to cover as it fires out and she catches it in her mouth,” he explains. “What’s in the movie is the second take. We were all so impressed.”

Bland, Simon. "Charlie Sheen talks 'Hot Shots!' at 30: I borrowed everything from Leslie Nielsen." Yahoo Entertainment, 28 Jul. 2021, https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/charlie-sheen-hot-shots-leslie-nielsen-093819495.html. Accessed date 23 Jun. 2024