“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 staff. 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 have been youngsters on the time, describing their characters. In a single section, Meyer reveals that he was accustomed to being a highschool scholar in Beverly Hills — regardless that the film’s fictional Bronson Alcott Excessive College was really performed by Occidental Faculty 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 mentioned.
Rudd advised 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 things. It’s all so new. It forces you [to] take heed to different individuals and their concepts, and be open and enthusiastic about studying all of these items and displaying up daily [thinking], ‘Oh my god, I can’t consider I’m right here. And that I obtained this job,” Rudd mentioned.
In 2015, he expressed an analogous sentiment to ET. “I simply bear in mind being so overwhelmed,” Rudd mentioned. “The concept that I used to be in a film was additionally new. And I bear in mind driving onto the Paramount lot, seeing these gates, oh my god… and I had a parking go 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 type of brushing me off, ‘No matter. We’re not doing that. No matter.’ And it, like, infuriated me,” Donovan mentioned. “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, mentioned that the film allowed her to unlock an undiscovered facet of her performing expertise.
“I used to be simply completely satisfied to be there, and completely satisfied to have the half and play this factor,” Silverstone mentioned. “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 believe Paul had it on the second session, and Breckin [Meyer]. They have been all there within the first three periods; these individuals all got here in,” Ross mentioned. “Jeremy Sisto advised the story that he learn for 4 totally different elements, 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 elements. Breckin, no. I put him within the second day and actually he simply was it. The one different particular person that basically got here shut is Jeremy Renner, who I simply met. I introduced him. He was a young person virtually.”
Heckerling advised ET in 2015 that Reese Witherspoon was thought-about to play Silverstone’s Cher function.
“I noticed some clips from Reese, and I believed, ‘Yeah, this girl’s an actress.’ However it didn’t actually matter, as a result of I had the woman I needed and my coronary heart was with Alicia,” Heckerling mentioned.
In April, IndieWire reported that “Clueless” would return for a sequel collection with Silverstone connected to star and Hecklering set as govt producer. Additional particulars have but to be introduced. Silverstone reprised her function in a 2023 Rakuten Tremendous Bowl business, and the film itself was beforehand tailored right into a sitcom that aired from 1996-1999 during which Rachel Blanchard took on Silverstone’s character.
The follow-up can be a reversal for Silverstone, who has mentioned prior to now {that a} sequel was unlikely to ever occur.
“I don’t suppose Amy Heckerling’s down for that in any respect. It’s not in my arms,” Silverstone advised ET in 2020. “I believe what’s actually exhausting about ‘Clueless’ to redo it’s that… Cher learns the right way to change into an entire human, so it’s like, the place do you choose her up? The advanced self? Or do you choose her up from… she’s relapsed. Now she’s again to her previous methods.”
Paramount Photos has gone all out to have a good time the thirtieth birthday of “Clueless,” with a collection of particular screenings and a theatrical re-release final month. On July 19, Beverly Hills will even have its personal particular displaying in La Cienega Park on what the town’s Mayor Sharona Nazarian will declare “Clueless Day,” hosted by Los Angeles’ Road Meals Cinema.
