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Sound Bite: Garry Marshal
Lindsay helped get the picture made because I’ve been wanting to get this picture for a long time they said no you’ll do another thing with the tiara you’re good with the tiara so I said no I want to do this one so when Lindsay showed an interest that she would come and really toe the mark and concentrate because she’s a very good actress. But I had seen her in other things to and uh when she said she was interested then I got some interest from Morgan Creek as a, brave independent company, James Robinson the head of it and uh he uh helped me get Jane and Jane was really wanting to do this character and Felicity was a circus because she wanted to do it but she was working on Desperate Housewives so she had to run in a car and drive up and kiss a guy and say what was up the street, what going on? And run over here, I’m a drunk boom! But uh she was very good at it and uh everybody came to play an honest character and uh Dermott Mulroney came in, I always liked him, he plays the cello and the mandolin so uh and uh Cary Elwes was brave enough to take the part of Arnold and so it was a great group. And we found this kid Minnesota Garrett Hedlund I didn’t know him, he has hair all over the place. I used to have hair like that (talks) I was in the 60’s but he was a wonderful kind of a Mormon who is a virgin now you can’t advertise in the paper needed Mormon virgin, you don’t know who’s coming. But he was uh a very good type to play this character.

Sound Bite: Garry Marshal
Yes they have to make money, they write very well but uh we had a day she missed and on a short schedule and a low budget you cant afford to miss too many days. So James Robinson had memo’d her or whatever the memo everybody carried on and uh she came to work the next day solid as a rock. She did one of the hardest scenes you see, there’s a scene in the picture where she has to, there’s no nudity, she has to deal with a sexual issue in the motel, that was the scene we were shooting and she had never met the guy before , she never met Cary Elwes so it was a little nervous for her and she came in after missing a day and she was very solid in that scene. And again the paparazzi went nuts when we were outdoors so that I felt so bad for, I said honey I cant run in the woods and get rid of them all, its private property, they can tell us to leave, so we’ll just concentrate and we worked our way through it. We had the, the crew was very helpful and they blocked everything so uh we got through it. But that was the hardest, I had to ever deal with the paparazzi and I had been with Julia and Anne and all the Michelle, everybody, this was hard, it’s a more popular game now paparazzi so it would not detour the fact that we wanted to make a honest picture and we were all gonna concentrate before we got it.