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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is [[Roger Rabbit (character)|Roger Rabbit]]'s wife and the tritagonist of the [[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?|book]] and [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit (film)|movie]]. In the book, she was an amoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character, over whom her estranged husband, comic strip star Roger Rabbit, obsessed. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral, cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called The Ink and Paint Club. She is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is voiced by [[Kathleen Turner]]. [[Amy Irving]] was cast to sing " | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is [[Roger Rabbit (character)|Roger Rabbit]]'s wife and the tritagonist of the [[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?|book]] and [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit (film)|movie]]. In the book, she was an amoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character, over whom her estranged husband, comic strip star Roger Rabbit, obsessed. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral, cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called The Ink and Paint Club. She is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is voiced by [[Kathleen Turner]]. [[Amy Irving]] was cast to sing "Why Don't You Do Right?" (a blues song made famous by Peggy Lee) for Jessica's first scene in the movie. | ||
Jessica was based on | Jessica was based on Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), and Veronica Lake (noted for her famous "Peek-A-Boo" hairstyle). She is one of the most famous sex symbols on the animated screen, being compared to that of [[Betty Boop]] or Red Hot Riding Hood. She claims to [[Eddie Valiant]], "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way," which has become a popular quote. She deeply loves her husband Roger, claiming that he makes her laugh and that he makes a more fitting husband than [[Goofy]]. | ||
It was said by her animators, that Jessica is so "exuberant", because they wondered how far they could take her behavior without comments from the Walt Disney Studios. | It was said by her animators, that Jessica is so "exuberant", because they wondered how far they could take her behavior without comments from the Walt Disney Studios. | ||