Jessica Rabbit

Jessica Rabbit
Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
First appearance	Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Created by	Gary K. Wolf Richard Williams Jeffrey Price Peter Seaman
Voiced by	Kathleen Turner (speaking voice) Amy Irving (singing voice) Russi Taylor (original test footage)
Information
Species	Toon Human
Gender	Female
Occupation	Club singer (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Spouse(s)	Roger Rabbit

Jessica Rabbit is a fictional character in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its loose film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She is depicted as Roger's human toon wife in various Roger Rabbit media. Jessica is renowned as one of the most well known sex symbols in animation. She is also well known for her movie quote "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

Writer Gary K. Wolf based Jessica primarily on the cartoon character Red from Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood.The film version was inspired by various actresses. Richard Williams explained, "I tried to make her like Rita Hayworth; we took her hair from Veronica Lake, and Zemeckis kept saying, 'What about the look Lauren Bacall had?'" He described that combination as an "ultimate male fantasy, drawn by a cartoonist." Originally before Robert Zemeckis would be the director of the feature film, Jessica Rabbit started off with a different design with Russi Taylor as the voice actress as depicted in test footage for the film.

In the book, she was an immoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character over whom her estranged husband (comic strip star Roger Rabbit) became obsessed. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral, cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called The Ink and Paint Club. She is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is voiced by Kathleen Turner. Amy Irving was cast to sing "Why Don't You Do Right?" (a blues song made famous by Peggy Lee) for Jessica's first scene in the movie. According to animation director Richard Williams, other than being a beautiful female human toon temptress, she deeply loves her husband Roger. She even calls him her "honey-bunny" and "darling". She claims that he makes her laugh, is a better lover than a driver and that he's magnificent and "better than Goofy" after Roger brandishes his gun at Judge Doom and the Weasels, telling Doom that the meaning of justice would probably hit him like a ton of bricks before Roger literally gets hit by a ton of bricks. As proof of her love she tells Eddie that she'll pay any price for Roger and she even helps prove him innocent by helping in the investigation.