I’ve played killers, but I don’t think I’ve ever played a character so remorselessly amoral like that.” 6. A lot of people, even actors coming up for the part, wanted to know, ‘Why does the father have to be guilty?’ The answer was, without the father being guilty it’s Pretty in Pink.” Mahoney said he took the part because “the character just utterly fascinated me. “We just kept hearing about John Mahoney, and then he came in and was so disarmingly charming and looked like William Holden. THEY MADE THE DAD GUILTY TO BE DIFFERENT FROM PRETTY IN PINK.Ĭrowe told Entertainment Weekly he had a difficult time casting the father: Rob Reiner was the first choice but wasn’t acting at the time.
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Two years after the movie came out, Skye married Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz the couple divorced in 1999. Even the father stealing money from old people, I was saying to Cameron, ‘I can’t access why this would upset me.’ That didn’t seem bad to me at the time.” Skye’s real-life father is famed Scottish musician Donovan. “I grew up with my mother, not my father. “I wasn’t a good student,” she told the Los Angeles Times. The actress had trouble identifying with the A-student Diane Court because she wasn’t like that. IONE SKYE WAS THE OPPOSITE OF DIANE COURT. Are you aware of the sport kickboxing? It is now a major sport covered by ESPN.’ I’d tell, ‘The character’s not coming, and there’s this f***ing guy down the way who keeps knocking on the door and he’s a kickboxer.’ And Jim’s looking at me like, ‘And you’re wondering what to write?’” 4. I am a kickboxer, and I’ll be living here for a little bit. “He knocked on the door and said, ‘Hello, I’d like to introduce myself. “He was this friendly guy with a crew cut who just wanted to meet everybody he could,” Crowe told Entertainment Weekly. The writer-director was having issues writing the leading man, but became inspired when he met his Alabama neighbor, Lowell Marchant. LLOYD DOBLER WAS BASED ON CROWE’S NEIGHBOR. I realized I would never be 20 again so I might as well cap off that phase of my career on a positive note. “He isn’t a tunnel-versioned urban teen preoccupied with sex, school, and his job. With a little coaxing from John Mahoney, Cusack read the script and liked it, calling Lloyd a “great American character.” “He’s somewhat eccentric,” Cusack relayed in the film’s production notes. We used to pull out the graduation gown, and he’d go ‘Aaaaaaarrrrgghh.’” “He said he had graduated, like, six times already. “He told me he never wanted to graduate again in a film,” Crowe said about why Cusack was reluctant to take the part.
JOHN CUSACK WAS AGAINST STARRING IN ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE.Īfter starring in a string of teen flicks, Cusack was ready to move on to adult roles. She was already with someone new, but I was going to wave the flag of our great love, even if I was the only one at the ceremony." 2.
“And yes, I used to drive by her house late at night, listening to music, feeling like a sap and somehow heroic at the same time. The “personal” part references his first love and heartbreak: “She fell for me, and I fell for her, but not at the same time,” Crowe said. He told the San Diego Union Tribune that the movie’s “a love story for people who don’t say I love you” and in 2009 told the Los Angeles Times that, “It’s a very personal movie, and it reminds me of falling in love, falling out of love, and falling back in love with life and all the unexpected glories and pain that happen along the way.” Until Say Anything…, Crowe hadn’t written a love story. CAMERON CROWE BASED THE SCRIPT ON A REAL-LIFE HEARTBREAK. Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut was released on April 14, 1989, and even though it only made a small profit at the box office, it has since become a Hollywood classic. No scene in late 1980s cinema is more iconic than Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) holding a boombox over his head with the song “In Your Eyes” blasting in an attempt to win his girlfriend back.
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