Instead of going their separate ways, Close's character, Forrest, suffers a psychotic break and begins to stalk Gallagher, his wife and their young daughter. Forrest's behavior becomes increasingly more violent leading to the film's memorable ending. However, it was an ending that Close says wasn't originally scripted.

Glenn Close has opened up about how she reacted when told the ending to Fatal Attraction was being changed. In the past, the eight-time Oscar nominee has been open about the fact that her character in the 1987 thriller was initially supposed to take her own life, only for this to be changed when the movie was screened for test audiences.

When growing up in what she’s described as a cult, actress Glenn Close relied on her “active imagination” to not let certain situations affect her as “deep” as they could have. While reflecting on her prolific 50-year career in theater and film with Willie Geist on TODAY’s Sunday Sitdown,