Tara Reid’s new movie “The Fifth Boro” will now be dedicated to the memory of her mother, Donna, who died on Saturday, a day after Tara finished filming her part as a police sergeant in the film set in Staten Island.
“Tara did such an amazing job. Her mother would be super proud of her. I want to dedicate the film to her,” Steve Stanulis, the film’s writer, director, producer and star, told me.
After the “disturbance” last week that led to the “Sharknado” actress being removed from an LA-to-New York Delta flight, she caught a later flight, but she was three hours late to the set of the upcoming film and had just 20 minutes to get ready for her first scene — a steamy bedroom encounter with Stanulis.
Reid, in a scanty bra and a thong, was on top of Stanulis, who plays her husband, simulating mind-blowing passion, and the director — Stanulis himself — was too distracted to yell “Cut!” “They kept at it for a few more minutes than necessary,” said my source. “The crew had a good laugh.”
Stanulis is a former NYPD cop who got into the movie business after he was injured and worked as a bodyguard for the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio. In “The Fifth Boro,” Stanulis plays a Peter Gatien-like club owner who starts robbing drug dealers and doing jewel heists to pay for cancer treatments for his junkie daughter, played by Chloe Lang.
The day after Reid completed her four days of filming, her mother died. Reid posted on Instagram in August that her mom had been “extremely sick” and had spent time in the ICU.
Sex scenes aside, dedicating the film to her mother may have special meaning: The motivation for Stanulis’ character to steal is to pay for his sick daughter’s treatments.
Also in the cast: Sean Young, Audrey Landers, Federico Castelluccio, Broadway star Constantine Maroulis and real-life ex-con Lillo Brancato.
Reid told her side of the story regarding what Delta called a flight “disturbance”: “They wouldn’t let [my] dog sit next to me, so I wasn’t going to stay on the plane,” she told “Extra.” “Of course, everyone made a big deal about it, but I’m kind of used to that in my life. They always kind of pick on me.”