Everything you need to know about 'She's All That'
Holy sh**, She's All That turned 15 yesterday. It seems like just yesterday that Freddie Prinze Jr. was relevant and hit tween movies only featured one "spontaneous" dance number. Released on January 29, 1999, She's All That was the biggest box office hit of Miramax's history. It made more than $100 million worldwide on a budget of just $6 million and helped to launch the careers of many of the up-and-coming actors lucky enough to land roles in the film, including the late Paul Walker.
Holy sh**, She's All That turned 15 yesterday. It seems like just yesterday that Freddie Prinze Jr. was relevant and hit tween movies only featured one "spontaneous" dance number. Released on January 29, 1999, She's All That was the biggest box office hit of Miramax's history. It made more than $100 million worldwide on a budget of just $6 million and helped to launch the careers of many of the up-and-coming actors lucky enough to land roles in the film, including the late Paul Walker.
Over at The Daily Beast, Marlow Stern continued to do the Lord's work by reaching out to the cast of the film and director Robert Iscove to compile their thoughts into an oral history of She's All That.
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Freddie Prinze Jr. told Paul Walker he had landed the part two weeks before Walker got the call from the Miramax folks.
M. Night did do some rewrites (think about the hacky-sack scene), but some of his stuff was rewritten, as well, to maintain a consistant voice.
The film's premiere fell on the the same day, but 22 years after, Prinze's father committed suicide. The star had to be coached into attending.
Dulé Hill can tap dance.
The rap scene was improv.
Prinze actually cried after each take while filming the "Am I a f***ing bet?!" scene.
Harvey Weinstein wanted to put a sword fight in the middle of the film.
Kevin Pollack improvised all of the Jeopardy! lines used in the film.
Freddie Prinze Jr. hopes it can be just like Some Kind of Wonderful.
Usher: I feel like I was a part of a legacy, it was like The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller's Day Off of that era. I'm happy I did it.
Freddie Prinze Jr.: I fell asleep on the couch at like 11:30 pm watching Some Kind of Wonderful. I'd just finished doing Wing Commander in Luxembourg, and that flight was brutal, so I closed all the curtains in my house and passed out. And when I woke up, it was only like 11 minutes later in the movie. I was like, "What?" I'd literally slept for 12 hours straight and the movie had just come on TV again on a Cinemax loop. I'd just gotten She's All That, and I had this weird vibe that it would be that sorta vibe. Some Kind of Wonderful was never going to be The Breakfast Club, because that's this beautiful play that somehow works as a movie, but it was still a movie that reached out to the jocks and the outcasts, and if She's All That could be like Some Kind of Wonderful, I thought that would be great, because it's more for the outcasts. When our movie first came out, a lot of people went teenybopper crazy, but a lot of people also came out and said, "That was me, man." [The Daily Beast]