So we went back a week later and reshot that in the morning when they let us stop it for an hour. We had three different light levels by the time we finished. LINKLATER We tried to shoot it at sunset, but they would only stop the Ferris wheel for 10 minutes, and then we’d have to go around and do it again. Jesse and Céline’s first kiss takes place on Vienna’s Prater Ferris wheel at sunset, but was difficult in more ways than one. I almost fell in love with him right there, but then Rick said cut. It was like magic - each time I felt Ethan looking away, I would look at him and vice versa. HAWKE It’s probably my single favorite take of anything I’ve been involved with.ĭELPY That was really special. Regular trains were used to film Jesse and Céline’s meet-cute, as well as Céline’s send-off in the closing scene. I used to joke there were times when Julie and I didn’t want credit because we were so sure it was going to be so bad. LINKLATER To this day, they don’t really get the credit as actors because everybody thinks they’re improvising. The guys would listen to me as I was really the only woman in the room, especially when we got to Vienna.
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I was an extremely romantic person, very pure and full of dreams. For every scene in there, we wrote, like, 17 that didn’t make the cut.ĭELPY It was intense, and a lot of my personal feelings went into it. And to do that we were all going to have to live in the moment together to create the movie.
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Rick wanted to make a movie about living in the moment. HAWKE Revising is way too mild of a word. I was really excited and had all these questions, and I realized after talking to my agents that he was not offering - he was asking me to audition with about 10,000 other people. After that, Rick sent me the script, and I thought he was offering me the part. I ended up at a bar with him after the play.ĮTHAN HAWKE (Jesse) We hung out until 4 a.m. I had never met Ethan, but at that moment, he was the biggest star in his age range. LINKLATER Anthony Rapp invited me to see a play he was in with Ethan Hawke in New York. We saw Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston, before she was on “Friends.” JUDY HENDERSON (casting director) I kept all the Polaroids because so many of the people who auditioned are superstars today.
In the first draft, we named the characters Chris and Terry because both are kind of genderless. It wasn’t clear if it was going to be a European male and American female. LINKLATER That was the biggest casting choice imaginable. It took a bicoastal casting call and more than six months to find the perfect leads. It was so different from the so-called romantic comedies of the time, which were often very contrived, and it had such a naturalistic feel to it. It had a lot of dialogue but was more of a blueprint. MARTIN SHAFER (a co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment) The script came to me and it was very short.
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