 Juliette Binoche (qv) was offered a role, which she has described  in interviews as a woman who was to be raped and then murdered, but  she turned it down. She had already turned  Steven Spielberg (I) (qv) down once that same year, passing on the  role of Ellie Sattler in _Jurassic Park (1993)_ (qv) to make  _Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)_ (qv).