IT CONTRIBUTED TO GLENN CLOSE MAKING SOME ACTING HISTORY.Demi Lovato has some regrets about the frozen yogurt shop controversy that made headlines in April. "I think that all these characters are conglomerations of things in and things we’ve seen in our friends,” Kasdan said. Debs Cooperative House at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to color in the characters who, for the weekend, are essentially living a co-op experience. The co-writer/director drew from his experience boarding at the Eugene V. THE CHARACTERS WERE BASED ON PEOPLE KASDAN MET WHILE LIVING IN A CO-OP. “And for five hours they remained in character without any authority figure, without any director to tell them if they were behaving or reacting in the correct way according to the writer’s or director’s ideas." 6. “I chose to leave at that point,” Kasdan told TCM. The fictional bond was solidified by a lengthy rehearsal in which Kasdan told Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams to cook a meal together in character so they’d have a common goal with different jobs to do. That’s the greatest triumph of the acting. Watching the cast of The Big Chill onscreen, it feels like they’ve all been friends forever. THE CAST COOKED A MEAL TOGETHER TO PREPARE FOR FILMING. The turkey was, of course, a symbol for the untouched, unchallenged lives the young, success track kids have experienced with an added somber note echoing how we know he will end his life in the future. The scene involves the college era crew eating Thanksgiving together and Alex considering whether he can cut into a perfect, whole turkey-which Goldblum described as “poetical and metaphorical”-with a large knife. There’s no known surviving copy of the scene, but luckily we have Jeff Goldblum to describe it for us. COSTNER ALMOST APPEARED IN THE FILM WITH A METAPHORICAL TURKEY.Ĭostner’s cut flashback scene is famously part of the movie’s lore because of how famous he became. Alex was originally in the film for one scene, but Kasdan cut it, effectively removing a young Kevin Costner from the movie except for one sequence where he lies motionless as Alex’s body is prepped for the funeral. The entire movie revolves around the suicide of Alex Marshall, an unseen college friend linking all the other characters together. In 1984, they scored a joint Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. "He wanted to collaborate with a woman, and he thought I was funny." Obviously, "Sure!" is the only correct answer when Kasdan asks that question. "I didn’t know enough to say anything other than 'Sure!'" Benedek told Entertainment Weekly in 1998. KASDAN WROTE IT WITH HIS LAWYER’S WIFE.īarbara Benedek had written a handful of episodes for a handful of TV shows when Kasdan-who was represented by Benedek’s husband-called her up and asked out of the blue to write a script together. After its success, a lot of studios wanted to draft him onto their teams, but when he said he wanted to make a dialogue-heavy ensemble movie about complicated old relationships clashing after a mutual friend’s suicide, they weren’t super keen. EVERY STUDIO WANTED LAWRENCE KASDAN, BUT NOT HIS MOVIE.Īfter writing The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lawrence Kasdan got a chance to direct his own script with 1981's Body Heat. In celebration of The Big Chill’s 35th anniversary, here are 10 facts about having too much sex, friendship, and fun to handle. Named a cultural artifact the first day it hit theaters, decades later it’s now considered both a hilarious, potent examination of a disillusioned group who grew from free love into “Greed is good” and a bougie whine of Baby Boomer privilege. The Big Chill, Lawrence Kasdan’s serious comedy (funny drama?), features one of the best ensembles of the past half-century slogging through midlife crises. If you trace back the origin of every movie of the modern era where adult friends hang out and strive to find personal profundity within stifling middle-class banalities, you’ll hit pay dirt in 1983.
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