According to a new book called Queen Meryl, Meryl Streep had to defend herself against Jack Nicholson’s constant advances while filming the movie Heartburn.

The movie had a rocky beginning, with Nora Ephron being required to portray Mark Feldman, the character based on Carl Bernstein, as a good father at all times due to the terms of the legal deal.

Director Mike Nichols fired Mandy Patinkin, the original leading man, after the first day of shooting in New York and replaced him with Jack Nicholson.

However, Mandy was neither right for the role nor entirely excited about starring in the movie.

Nonetheless, he felt pressure to launch a movie career.

Nichols noticed an absence of chemistry between Mandy and Meryl, so he replaced him with Jack Nicholson.

Jack had worked with Nichols before, and he pocketed $4 million up front to help rescue Heartburn.

He had wanted to work with Meryl since his 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, but he reminded her that there would be a lot of n^de scenes.

Meryl stated that she expected Jack to be equally s**ually explicit, but he was not keen on that.

Bob Greenhut, the Heartburn producer, stated that Jack developed strong feelings for Meryl.

At the start, Jack was clumsy because he was trying to get up to speed, but he soon started falling in love with Meryl.

He would ask her to go over their lines together later and would suggest having dinner.

However, she was married, and Nichols was very protective of her.

In his biography on Jack, Marc Eliot cited reports that Meryl threw him out of her hotel room and vowed never to make another movie with him.

The story was widely reported in the British press, and Streep denied it happened.

However, sources said the reason was Jack’s relentless s**ual overtures.

Despite this, she spoke admiringly of Jack’s social nature, how his thirst for new experiences drove him to participate in life rather than observe it.

Heartburn marked the screen debuts of Meryl’s mother, Mary, and brother, Dana, who made cameos as dinner party guests.

Mamie Gummer, her daughter, played her character’s mini-me daughter, Annie.

Meryl was in the first trimester of her pregnancy with her third child, so she wore a prosthetic baby bump.

Rachel, her daughter, was much further along.

Meryl intuitively understood Rachel, an urbane, harried mother, and created the character as a composite of savvy women she knew.

She said that they were friends of hers, and she didn’t think anybody would ever be a friend of hers if they knew how many times she’d used them.