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Romantic riffs: Aly interview!
"...what was going on in that scene was my shoes went flying off every single take. So I don't recommend wearing those little Marc Jacobs shoes if you ever get into a street fight..." |
Romantic riffs
'Date Movie' stars have been there, done that ... and live to tell about it
For those who thought movies couldn't possibly get any more moronic than "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," there's "Date Movie."
A send-up of dumb romance film conventions, "Date" mixes rude, crude sight gags with references to "Pretty Woman," "Meet the Parents/Fockers," "When Harry Met Sally ...." "King Kong" and 100 or so more great cinematic love stories. Of course, any other movie its short-term memory target audience might recognize gets trashed, too.
They didn't need to do that. It turns out that the romance genre offers enough targets for snarky satire, and "Date Movie's" creators, director Aaron Seltzer and producer Jason Friedberg, who've worked on "Scary Movie" scripts in the past, hit every bull's-eye - usually with something gooey, putrid or otherwise disgusting. Below, "Date Movie's" lead actors discuss the finer points of totally embarrassing themselves in the name of love.
ALYSON HANNIGAN
 Plays: Julia Jones, overweight Greek restaurant waitress extremely made over into winsome fiancee of cute Grant Fonckyerdoder.
Also known as: Sexually voracious Michelle in the "American Pie" movies. Sexually confused Willow on "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer." Sexually suggestive Lily on "How I Met Your Mother."
Worst date: "I was working at a video store at the time, and there was this older guy who would come in. He just seemed really lonely and sad. He asked me out, and I couldn't say no because I felt so bad for him. But the whole time I kept saying to myself, 'Why am I doing this?' "
Worst thing done for 'Date Movie': "Beating up the homeless guy just seemed so horrible. But it was very interesting to do a fight and be so happy about it, because the fights I'm used to doing are, like, 'No! Don't bite me!' So, to fight like it was lovely and romantic was really a change. But really, what was going on in that scene was my shoes went flying off every single take. So I don't recommend wearing those little Marc Jacobs shoes if you ever get into a street fight, because they don't stay on."
Feelings about romantic movies: "I'm such a sucker for romance. And I'm slightly scared that I've completely sabotaged any chance I'll have of ever being in a real romantic movie."
Feelings about romantic comedy superstar Hugh Grant, who was making a movie on the soundstage next door: "Of course it happens to me. He was doing 'American Dreamz' right next to our stage on the same lot, and I've always thought he was very charming and cute. But, like the two times I saw him were, one, when I was in the big girl suit right after they'd hosed me down, and the other time I was normal but I'd just gotten this huge, prosthetic zit put on my chin." He's like, 'What are they doing to you?' He was really polite and sweet. I told him we might be spoofing him."
On exchanging dialogue with a naked Australian woman: "Probably not as hard for me as it was for Adam. But props were definitely very important in that scene. I just did whatever I could to make Sophie feel comfortable. 'Yeah, I don't think anybody can see anything.' I'd whisper things like that."
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Use the source-link if you want go get to know the other actors as well.
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