Bo Derek John Derek twice re-edited the film in an effort to sell it to major studios. The film remained unreleased until 1981, at which time it received negative notices. Collins and John Derek married on June 10, 1976; she was 19 and he 49. By that time Derek had given his young wife a so-called Hollywood makeover: she had bleached her hair blonde and adopted the name Bo Derek. In 1977 director Michael Anderson cast Derek in a small role in his horror film "Orca - The Killer Whale" (1977), in which Derek has her leg bitten off by the title
Bo Derek "A Change of Seasons" (1980), a dramatic-comedy film that featured Shirley MacLaine and Anthony Hopkins. Derek played a college student who has an affair with her older, married professor. "A Change of Seasons" was only a moderate box-office success, with critics reviewing it and Derek's performance unfavorably ("The only appealing performance is Miss MacLaine's"). In 1980 Derek photographed Bo twice in "Playboy" magazine; she was featured again in the magazine in 1981, 1984, and 1994. In 1981 Derek appeared in MGM's R-rated "Tarzan, the Ape Man", her first leading role in a mainstream Hollywood film. Directed by husband John Derek,