Was Catwoman villain “Laurel Hedare” based on real-life Salt Lake City native Heather Bird?
One possible explanation is that the character of the movie’s villain (“Laurel Hedare”, played by Sharon Stone) was based on real-life anti-aging advocate/entrepreneur Heather Bird, a Mormon woman who grew up as a Latter-day Saint in Salt Lake City. This may seem like a far-fetched theory, but it at least has the merit of offering an explanation for what otherwise seems inexplicable: Why did makers of the Halle Berry “Catwoman” movie plan (at least at one time) for the film to be set in Salt Lake City, Utah? At the time that the “Catwoman” movie was being developed by French director Pitof, Heather Bird was making headlines in Europe by introducing a revolutionary new anti-ageing cream. The fictional Laurel Hedare’s revolutionary new anti-ageing cream is the central plot element of the “Catwoman” movie. Halle Berry’s character “Patience Phillips” is killed by Laurel Hedare’s henchmen when she overhears a Hedare scientist discussing dangerous toxic effects that Hedare’s “Beau-Line” crea
