Kathleen Quinlan, Jessica Lange, Debra Winger and Barbara Hershey were considered to play Lindsey Brigman. According to James Cameron, he almost cast Jamie Lee Curtis, but Kathryn Bigelow (his future wife) had already cast her in Blue Steel (1990). Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was finally chosen on the strength of her performances in Scarface (1983) and The Color of Money (1986). Cameron would cast Curtis in True Lies (1994) a few years later.
The Abyss
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
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