Ah, the heartbreak when two good-looking people don’t have chemistry!
According to “My Best Friend’s Wedding” director P.J. Hogan, the 1997 rom-com would have looked very different had Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe connected during the audition process.
“I don’t know what went wrong,” Hogan said in an excerpt of Scott Meslow’s book “From Hollywood With Love,” as reported by Vulture. “It was one of the worst table reads I’ve ever experienced.”
Hogan, who had been pushing for Crowe to play Roberts’ love interest, added that megastar Roberts had casting approval.
“No one was getting in this movie if Julia didn’t approve,” Hogan said. “[But] Russell was, I thought, probably the most amazing actor I had ever encountered. I kind of knew Russell was going to be a really big star.”
Yet their table read didn’t quite go as planned: “Russell was seated opposite Julia. He gripped that script,...
According to “My Best Friend’s Wedding” director P.J. Hogan, the 1997 rom-com would have looked very different had Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe connected during the audition process.
“I don’t know what went wrong,” Hogan said in an excerpt of Scott Meslow’s book “From Hollywood With Love,” as reported by Vulture. “It was one of the worst table reads I’ve ever experienced.”
Hogan, who had been pushing for Crowe to play Roberts’ love interest, added that megastar Roberts had casting approval.
“No one was getting in this movie if Julia didn’t approve,” Hogan said. “[But] Russell was, I thought, probably the most amazing actor I had ever encountered. I kind of knew Russell was going to be a really big star.”
Yet their table read didn’t quite go as planned: “Russell was seated opposite Julia. He gripped that script,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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