“Hathaway quit the role due in part to a brief scene during the climactic birth sequence of a baby crowning that - while not depicting Hathaway’s own vagina - would have been to give audiences the impression it was hers,” writes Meslow. ‘Knocked Up’Īnne Hathaway was initially cast as the woman Seth Rogen impregnates after a one-night stand in Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up.” But she left the film once she learned of Apatow’s plans to use actual birth footage for her childbirth scene. Anne Hathaway (left) dropped out of “Knocked Up” after learning that real footage of childbirth would be used.
But the moment she left her trailer sporting the second version, the film’s crew burst into wild laughter, making the choice obvious. While the first style might have preserved Diaz’s dignity. They also agreed to shoot it two ways - one with just a small hair bump the other, as Meslow writes, “a massive, vertical spike of hair sticking straight up from Diaz’s forehead, described in the script as an ‘ACE VENTURA-STYLE WAVE’ and so rock-hard you could cut a diamond with it.” The Farrellys told Diaz that if she didn’t like the way the scene wound up, it would be cut from the film. “‘That’s, like, a potential career-ender,’” Peter Farrelly recalls the actress saying. The film’s writer/directors, the Farrelly Brothers, had been trying to make use of that gag for at least five years, since Peter Farrelly pitched it for an episode of “Seinfeld.” (It didn’t fly, but he and sibling Bobby did write the one where Jerry dates a virgin.) In “There’s Something About Mary,” one of the biggest issues during production involved the film’s most notorious joke: Cameron Diaz accidentally using semen as hair gel. 20th Century Fox ‘There’s Something About Mary’
“Rob’s only concern was, ‘Am I going to ruin a really good friendship by having a friend play Harry?’” casting director Jane Jenkins tells Meslow.īut after talking with actors including Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton and Tom Hanks, it became clear that only Crystal could play the part “exactly as Reiner saw him: a note-perfect riff on himself, as channeled through a friend who knew him better than anyone.” Cameron Diaz was initially uneasy about the hair gel scene from, “There’s Something About Mary,” but changed her mind once she saw how much everyone on set loved it. ©Columbia Pictures/courtesy Eveīy the time the script was complete, the character of Harry was such a stand-in for Reiner that the director initially refused to offer the part to Crystal - the obvious best actor for the role - because the two were best friends in real life. “By which she meant, of course, ‘What are single men really thinking?’” Director Rob Reiner (inset) almost gave “When Harry Met Sally” a break-up ending, until he himself fell in love during filming. “Ephron wanted to know: What is it actually like to be a single man?” writes Meslow. “And then I met the woman who became my wife during the making of the movie, and I changed the ending.” (Reiner and his wife Michele married in 1989 and are still together.)īut the main characters of “When Harry Met Sally” are actually stand-ins for Reiner and the film’s writer, Nora Ephron, who spent many hours arguing about the differences between men and women when it comes to sex and relationships. “I just had them walking in opposite directions at the end,” Reiner says in the book. In the initial script for 1989 film “When Harry Met Sally,” the two title characters, played by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, went their separate ways at the end.īut a funny thing happened on the way to a bummer ending.ĭirector Rob Reiner, after almost a decade of being single, fell in love. Here are surprising stories from six of the most beloved rom-coms of the past few decades.
Turns out, many of the movies themselves experienced exactly that on their way to the big screen, according to the new book “From Hollywood With Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy,” by Scott Meslow (Dey St.), out Feb. Rom-coms are all about meet-cutes, mix-ups and unexpected pairings. Sylvester Stallone denies ‘intentional dissipation’ of marital assets amid divorce
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