“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 workforce. 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, a lot of whom have been youngsters on the time, describing their characters. In a single phase, Meyer reveals that he was conversant in being a highschool pupil in Beverly Hills — despite the fact that the film’s fictional Bronson Alcott Excessive Faculty was actually played by Occidental Faculty in close by Eagle Rock.
“I went to Beverly. I went to the varsity it’s about, oddly sufficient, so I do know precisely what it was like being the obnoxious skater child at school,” Meyer mentioned.
Rudd informed Leisure Tonight earlier this 12 months what it was like showing in such a significant Hollywood launch, solely the second movie he had made in his profession to that time.
“You’re enthusiastic about every part. It’s all so new. It forces you [to] hearken to different individuals and their concepts, and be open and enthusiastic about studying all of these items and exhibiting up every single day [thinking], ‘Oh my god, I can’t imagine I’m right here. And that I bought this job,” Rudd mentioned.
In 2015, he expressed an identical sentiment to ET. “I simply bear in mind being so overwhelmed,” Rudd mentioned. “The concept 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 move on a studio lot.”
At an Academy Museum event panel final month, Elisa Donovan defined the origin story of the well-known “no matter” expression.
“I truly 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 kind of brushing me off, ‘Whatever. We’re not doing that. Whatever.’ And it, like, infuriated me,” Donovan mentioned. “So once 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 recognized 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 said. “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.
“To start with, I simply began casting classes… I feel Paul had it on the second session, and Breckin [Meyer]. They have been all there within the first three classes; these individuals all got here in,” Ross mentioned. “Jeremy Sisto informed 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 should 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 particular person that actually got here shut is Jeremy Renner, who I simply met. I introduced him. He was an adolescent virtually.”
Heckerling informed ET in 2015 that Reese Witherspoon was thought of to play Silverstone’s Cher position.
“I noticed some clips from Reese, and I assumed, ‘Yeah, this lady’s an actress.’ Nevertheless 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 hooked up to star and Hecklering set as govt producer. Additional particulars have but to be introduced. Silverstone reprised her position 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 mentioned up 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 informed ET in 2020. “I feel what’s actually exhausting about ‘Clueless’ to redo it’s that… Cher learns how you can turn out to be an entire human, so it’s like, the place do you choose her up? The developed self? Or do you choose her up from… she’s relapsed. Now she’s again to her outdated methods.”
Paramount Photos has gone all out to rejoice 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 special showing in La Cienega Park on what the town’s Mayor Sharona Nazarian will declare “Clueless Day,” hosted by Los Angeles’ Road Meals Cinema.
