“As if!” It could be exhausting to consider it (particularly if you happen to simply have a look at Paul Rudd), however it’s been 30 years since Clueless was launched. For the anniversary, the movie is receiving particular remedy on Paramount+, with subscribers greeted with a marquee encouraging them to look at, and there shall be a particular Clueless marathon, with the movie airing thrice in a row beginning at 8/7c free of charge on Pluto TV’s 90s Throwback channel.
The 1995 movie (loosely based mostly on Jane Austen’s Emma) adopted Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a shallow, wealthy, and socially profitable highschool pupil in Beverly Hills as she tried matchmaking these round her, to numerous outcomes. Amongst them: new pupil Tai (Brittany Murphy) and the favored Elton (Jeremy Sisto). The one downside? He’s extra serious about Cher… who’s busy falling for her ex-stepbrother Josh (Rudd).
When Sisto stopped by TV Insider to speak about FBI in 2023, we needed to ask him to look again on his audition for Clueless. “Initially, they’d requested me to learn for Josh,” he revealed. “I believe I needed to make enjoyable of those wealthy youngsters, which I most likely resented from my very own childhood.”
Sisto was 19 and had simply completed filming the 1995 movie Hideaway with Silverstone. He met with the movie’s author and director, Amy Heckerling. “She stated I reminded her of John Travolta, perhaps due to my hair, however I hadn’t seen their film collectively, which was Look Who’s Speaking, so I didn’t actually perceive the context or understand that that was a very good factor for her,” he shared. “After I received the script, I needed to play that character. I assumed it was the funniest.”
On the time, he and his costars Breckin Meyer and Donald Faison had no concept how huge the movie would develop into. “It’s not like a musician that you just go on stage and there’s a whole lot of hundreds of individuals. So what did begin to occur was individuals would acknowledge me from it,” Sisto defined of its success. “That grew to become type of unusual. The character was bizarre, and I didn’t need individuals to suppose I used to be like that.”
To at the present time, he continued, “I’m simply kind of honored to be part of it. I don’t even perceive why it’s as particular as it’s as a result of once I watch it, I used to be there and I can’t kind of get my head across the magic of it, however no matter that magic sauce is that makes it in a position for anybody going via that point of their lives to connect with and simply get pleasure from [it] a lot is admittedly particular and really troublesome to drag off.”
Watch the total video above for extra from Sisto about his audition for Clueless.