His character met a painful death involving a high heel in the 1992 movie “Single White Female.”

Steven Weber finds it hard to watch his iconic movie death scene: ‘Affable womanizing dickhead’

His character met a painful death involving a high heel in the 1992 movie "Single White Female."

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February 16, 2026 7:30 p.m. ET

Steven Weber and Bridget Fonda star in 'Single White Female'. Credit:

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Steven Weber laughs at the mention of 1992 movie *Single White Female*. Not because he dislikes the movie. It's just that he kind of hates his performance, including the infamous scene in which his character is killed.

"It's such a cool film. It's a real genre film," the actor said on a recently resurfaced July 2025 episode of the *Still Here Hollywood* podcast with Steve Kmetko. "It's a real '80s thriller, I suppose. Why do I laugh? Because my role in it contains actually a fairly iconic sequence, where I get killed — spoiler alert — by having a high heel thrust through my eyeball."**

The 1992 thriller starred Bridget Fonda as a young professional, Allie, who takes on a roommate, Jennifer Jason Leigh's Hedra. At first, everything seems great, but it's not long before Hedra reveals herself to be roommate from hell. She wants to take over Allie's entire life, including her unfaithful fiancé Sam, portrayed by Weber.

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"It has remained a kind of funny and, as I say, iconic sequence," Weber said of Sam's death scene. "And it falls into the category of being difficult for me to watch right now, with my long hair and kind of presumptuous kind of young, brash idiocy."

At the time the movie was released, Weber had been acting professionally for about a decade. And he regularly found himself portraying similar characters.

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"I was cast in a lot of those roles, doing that same thing," Weber said. "The jerk. You know, affable, womanizing, dickhead."

Based on a 1990 novel by John Lutz, the script for *Single White Female *was written by Don Roos, who also wrote *The Opposite of Sex *(1998), *Bounce *(2000), and *Marley & Me* (2008), as well as episodes of TV shows including, more recently, *This Is Us* and *Younger*.

Steven Weber photographed in November.

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The cast of the heart-pounding story also features Stephen Tobolowsky, Frances Bay, and Peter Friedman.****The *Wings* alum noted that working on it had been an enjoyable time.

"It was good. And violent and sexy and weird. And it was beautifully shot," Weber said. "It was a film. I mean, that's why it's so much fun. It was really great."

The veteran actor also revealed that the one project he would choose to relive is Stephen King's* The Shining* miniseries from 1997, in which he played the central character that Jack Nicholson made famous in the classic Stanley Kubrick film from 1980.**

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