Linda Evangelista has had many iconic moments in her career but perhaps none more than her participation in George Michael’s Freedom video.
The 1990 video also starring Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz catapulted the supermodels into a new stratosphere of fame and pop culture prominence.
But Linda, 59, almost wasn’t a part of it. During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Thursday she told the E.T. star she wasn’t into the idea of it at all at first.
Drew asked Linda what it was like making the video and if she knew at the time it would be such a massive cultural touchstone.
‘No, I had no idea. I didn’t want to do it like, no, I, it wasn’t fashion. I just, my dream was fashion and George wore me down and I developed an incredible friendship with George. Miss him,’ Linda – who recently shared a throwback photo to her pre-modeling days – said.
Linda Evangelista has had many iconic moments in her career but perhaps none more than her participation in George Michael’s Freedom video
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‘I give most of the credit to George Michael because he catapulted us into like another place,’ Linda said.
‘We were just hitting fashion people and suddenly I was being recognized by kids on the street or, you know, and that’s what really did it,’ she added.
Linda, Naomi, Cindy and Christy have since been dubbed the Supermodels and a 2023 AppleTV+ documentary about their rise to fame and the way those four women changed the modeling world followed their rise.
‘To finally have the opportunity to tell our story in collaboration with the brilliant team at Imagine, and under the direction of Barbara Kopple, is as exciting for us as we hope it will be for viewers,’ Evangelista wrote on Instagram at the time.
‘I would love for people to see this as a celebration of not only our individual stories, but also to the power of friendship, dreams and perseverance.’
Linda reflected on one of the many ways modeling has changed at a screening of the documentary series last year.
‘Nowadays all the magic happens in post-production,’ she said. ‘In the 80s and the early 90s, all the magic happened exactly at that moment that you heard “click.”‘
During her interview, Linda also brought up a moment from almost 35 years ago when she met a then teenage Drew in an airport.
‘I wanted to ask you because I don’t know if you remember. When I turned 25 my mother said to me, “What would you like for your birthday?” And I said, “A game boy” and she got so mad and said, “I am not buying my model daughter, a game boy, 25 years old.”
‘I mean, and I was like ok, I’ll buy it myself. So here I am with my game boy. I had flown from Los Angeles to Paris connecting to the south of France and there you were in the lounge,’ she explained.
‘I’m on my game boy and I spot you and I’m like, oh my God, that’s Drew Barrymore. And I look at you and you’re on your game boy and you’re across the lounge and we just keep making eye contact and I was like, just do it, Linda, do it.
The 1990 video also starring Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford catapulted the supermodels into a new stratosphere of fame and pop culture popularity.
But Linda, 59, almost wasn’t a part of it. During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Thursday she told the E.T star she wasn’t into the idea of it at all at first
Drew asked Linda what it was like making the video and if she knew at the time it would be such a massive cultural touchstone
Linda also became famous for saying she ‘wouldn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000.’ Seen here at the Saint Laurent show in Paris on September 24, 2024
‘No, I had no idea. I didn’t want to do it like, no, I, it wasn’t fashion. I just, my dream was fashion and George wore me down and I developed an incredible friendship with George. Miss him’
During her interview, Linda also brought up a moment from almost 35 years ago when she met a then teenage Drew in an airport
Linda also appeared in George Michael’s Too Funky video, seen here on the set in Paris in 1992
‘And I said to you, “Do you wanna hook up?” And you said, “What do you mean?” And I pulled the cord out of my bag, someone had just given me this very obscure cord where you could put two game boys together and play against each other.
‘And we played it. Do you remember?,’ Linda asked.
‘We played Tetris,’ Drew said.
‘We played Tetris, Linda confirmed.
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