“Leisure Tonight” has pulled out of its vaults a number of minutes of beforehand unseen behind-the-scenes “Clueless” footage, showcasing Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Breckin Meyer, Stacey Sprint, Donald Faison, director Amy Heckerling, and the remainder of the crew. Within the final month, many concerned with the manufacturing have appeared at thirtieth anniversary occasions, heralding the indelible mark left by the highschool traditional on popular culture.
The clips embody one-on-one interviews with the solid members, lots of whom had been youngsters on the time, describing their characters. In a single phase, Meyer reveals that he was aware of being a highschool pupil in Beverly Hills — regardless that the film’s fictional Bronson Alcott Excessive College was really performed by Occidental School in close by Eagle Rock.
“I went to Beverly. I went to the college it’s about, oddly sufficient, so I do know precisely what it was like being the obnoxious skater child in class,” Meyer stated.
Rudd instructed Leisure Tonight earlier this yr what it was like showing in such a serious Hollywood launch, solely the second movie he had made in his profession to that time.
“You’re enthusiastic about all the pieces. It’s all so new. It forces you [to] take heed to different folks and their concepts, and be open and enthusiastic about studying all of these things and exhibiting up on daily basis [thinking], ‘Oh my god, I can’t imagine I’m right here. And that I obtained this job,” Rudd stated.
In 2015, he expressed an analogous sentiment to ET. “I simply keep in mind being so overwhelmed,” Rudd stated. “The concept that I used to be in a film was additionally new. And I keep in mind driving onto the Paramount lot, seeing these gates, oh my god… and I had a parking move on a studio lot.”
At an Academy Museum occasion panel final month, Elisa Donovan defined the origin story of the well-known “no matter” expression.
“I really had a boyfriend who was a number of years older than I used to be in highschool, and he used to say when he was form of brushing me off, ‘No matter. We’re not doing that. No matter.’ And it, like, infuriated me,” Donovan stated. “So after I learn this, I used to be like, ‘Oh, I’m taking again that phrase.’”
On the identical panel, Silverstone, who up till “Clueless” was identified for her dramatic turns in “The Crush” and a trio of Aerosmith music movies, stated that the film allowed her to unlock an undiscovered facet of her appearing expertise.
“I used to be simply completely happy to be there, and completely happy to have the half and play this factor,” Silverstone stated. “And I didn’t know I used to be humorous earlier than that film. So, this was the primary time I did a comedy.”
In 2015 to mark the movie’s twentieth anniversary, IndieWire spoke with the “Clueless” casting director Marcia Ross, who revealed one now-major star who nearly made it into Beverly Hills Excessive.
“At first, I simply began casting periods… I feel Paul had it on the second session, and Breckin [Meyer]. They had been all there within the first three periods; these folks all got here in,” Ross stated. “Jeremy Sisto instructed the story that he learn for 4 totally different components, as a result of he did. He began as in all probability Josh after which he ended up as Elton, however he will need to have learn for 4 totally different components. Breckin, no. I put him within the second day and actually he simply was it. The one different individual that basically got here shut is Jeremy Renner, who I simply met. I introduced him. He was a young person virtually.”
Heckerling instructed ET in 2015 that Reese Witherspoon was thought-about to play Silverstone’s Cher function.
“I noticed some clips from Reese, and I assumed, ‘Yeah, this girl’s an actress.’ However it didn’t actually matter, as a result of I had the lady I wished and my coronary heart was with Alicia,” Heckerling stated.
In April, IndieWire reported that “Clueless” would return for a sequel sequence with Silverstone hooked up to star and Hecklering set as government producer. Additional particulars have but to be introduced. Silverstone reprised her function in a 2023 Rakuten Tremendous Bowl industrial, and the film itself was beforehand tailored right into a sitcom that aired from 1996-1999 by which Rachel Blanchard took on Silverstone’s character.
The follow-up could be a reversal for Silverstone, who has stated up to now {that a} sequel was unlikely to ever occur.
“I don’t assume Amy Heckerling’s down for that in any respect. It’s not in my palms,” Silverstone instructed ET in 2020. “I feel what’s actually laborious about ‘Clueless’ to redo it’s that… Cher learns learn how to develop into a complete human, so it’s like, the place do you decide her up? The developed self? Or do you decide her up from… she’s relapsed. Now she’s again to her previous methods.”
Paramount Footage has gone all out to rejoice the thirtieth birthday of “Clueless,” with a sequence of particular screenings and a theatrical re-release final month. On July 19, Beverly Hills will even have its personal particular exhibiting in La Cienega Park on what town’s Mayor Sharona Nazarian will declare “Clueless Day,” hosted by Los Angeles’ Road Meals Cinema.