#America's Sweethearts

[rileykeouhg]

... the way you went for this breakfast.

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS (2001) dir. Joe Roth

#america's sweethearts #cinemapix #dailyflicks #jrobertsedit #filmgifs #dailyfilmtvgifs #mcblings #cinematicsource #moviegifs #usersavana #underbetelgeuse #usermandie #userjulroberts #filmedit #** #*gif

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)

#dallas cowboys cheerleaders #70s pinups #football #NFL #america's sweethearts #dcc #cheerleading #super bowl #seventies #1979

[fromkenari]

Listerine Strips, Respect, and RWRB

I obsessively read and watch Behind The Scenes Interviews, which I really shouldn't because famous people are jerks, especially to each other, especially in romantic comedies. There's no respect because of egos. Because romantic comedies have always been about the names they cast, not necessarily the content. Most casts come out of romantic comedies hating everything about it and knowing they were there because of their name and face. Some of them, that's fine. Others... You should watch Hugh Grant's interviews about Love Actually if you haven't. Hugh Grant's interviews in general are top-notch.

Anyway, suppose you've seen a lot of cast interviews for romance movies or even just characters with intimate relations. In that case, there is an alarming amount of disrespect and borderline abusive behavior that used to happen on sets before intimacy coordinators got involved. It often gets panned as "pranks" or "just things that happen on set" because of coworkers trying to get each other to break character and ruin a shot. Sometimes, yes it can be "harmless" fun if the cast has been working together for a long time. But that's not typically the case with romantic comedies. The halitosis "prank" is one of the more common ones. They have a kiss scene, and one of the parties eats something that will cause their breath and mouth to be absolutely abhorrent to the scene partner, who has to believably kiss this person on camera repeatedly, and they don't know until they go in for the kiss.

So the first time I heard about this being inappropriate was at a time in my life when I was so pressed for cash that I got into these sites that had movies that would pay you for views, which, yes, was literally a thing before social media and even YouTube. It's now a defunct avenue, obviously, and I was a member of so many of these sites that I couldn't tell you which one had me watch media for America's Sweethearts (2001), but it was never a studio or distributor directly, of course, it was funneled through these view for pay sites. Anyway.

I'm watching an interview with Julia Roberts, and she's talking about a kiss scene with John Cusak. It's meant to be a Morning After scene, and they're supposed to kiss before getting out of bed. Well, they broke for lunch right before filming this scene, and Julia ate her typical lunch, not thinking much about it, but her lunch had a lot of garlic. So when they went back to set, they got ready to shoot the first take, and at that moment, Julia realized her breath was going to be awful, and she didn't want to do that to John, so she pulled the sheet up over her mouth out of instinct. Then John, staying in character, does the same, and they perform the scene with their mouths covered even though John drops it at one point and Julia immediately lifts it back over his mouth. Her thinking is, "Who really kisses on the morning after their first time with a person they really like? You want to gargle or something first." (This is not a direct quote because it's been decades.) So in the scene, she ad-libs asking if can use his toothbrush to brush her teeth, and when he says yes, they share a chaste kiss with their mouths covered. The director liked it so much they kept it for the following takes.

Final Cut of that scene

This actually really struck me because out of all these damn interviews I had to watch for all these different movies with people describing all of the self-labeled "horrible" things they did to each other on set, this one interview with Julia Roberts about a kiss scene with John Cusak is refreshingly honest and kind of funny in a good way, and I have forgotten all those other interviews, but not this one.

Fast forward to Red, White, and Royal Blue interviews, and this quote from Taylor Zakhar Perez about his and Nicholas Galitzine's intimacy coordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt:

“He was incredible,” Zakhar Perez says of working with Taylor Hunt. “In London there are these brand of mints called Smints, and we called him the Smint Lord because we would always come up to him and ask for a mint or Listerine strip. I didn’t want my breath to be offensive to Nick as soon as we get on set and have to be intimate with each other…”

Source

Literally shattered me a bit when I read that and immediately thought back on the interview from almost 23 years ago. The morals of this story are: respect your coworkers and don't trust actors who say they don't need intimacy coordinators.

#hugh grant #julia roberts #john cusak #america's sweethearts #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #robbie taylor hunt #red white and royal blue #out of credits

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

#movies #polls #america's sweethearts #julia roberts #john cusack #joe roth #ended #result: unheard of

[hedleylamarr]

America’s Sweethearts (2001).

#America's Sweethearts #Billy Crystal #Seth Green #2000's #2001 movies #my gifs #userthing #cinemapix #cinematv #userstream #tvfilmsource #tvfilmspot #filmtvcentral #mediagifs #filmedit #filmgifs #dailyflicks #motionpicturesource #fyeahmovies #userbbelcher

[singinprincess]

JULIA ROBERTS as Kiki in America’s Sweethearts (2001)

#filmedit #juliarobertsedit #Julia Roberts #America's Sweethearts #spledits #mine #mine: pretty #mine: movie #my gifs #usernums #tusercat #usergiu #uservier #supervalcsi #underbetelgeuse #userladiesofcinema #cinematv #fyeahmovies #filmtvcentral #tuserjen #usermorgan #rogerhealey #userannalise #userthing #tuserheidi #usermimsi #userlyddy

[lukekirby]

me when i drink water with electrolytes 

#america's sweethearts #filmedit #filmgifs #catherine zeta jones #gwen harrison #*gifs #i wish this was just a funny caption but it's true #i think of this quote every time i drink water with electrolytes added #so many quotes from this movie live in my head #i like just giffing random bits from random movies that are stuck to my brain forever

[theblackestofsuns]

“America’s Sweethearts”

Fantastic Four #20 (November 1963)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers and Stan Goldberg

Marvel Comics

#Fantastic Four #Stan Lee #Jack Kirby #Dick Ayers #Stan Goldberg #Marvel Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #America's Sweethearts

[mediumsizedart]

19/01/24

#artists on tumblr #my art #scrapbooking #collage #mixed media #junk journal #this is one of the ugliest pages I've ever done but I'm nothing if not open qnd honest abt my shortcomings #America's Sweethearts

[xenagabrielleforever]

Alan Arkin RIP

#Alan Arkin #argo #get smart #going in style #little miss sunshine #america's sweethearts #So I Married an Axe Murderer #Glengarry Glen Ross #Edward Scissorhands

[pablolf]

Film Journal

"America's Sweethearts" by Joe Roth

#america's sweethearts #film journal

[live-love-cinema24]

America's Sweethearts (2001)

#America's Sweethearts #johncusack #juliaroberts #john cusack #julia roberts

[jesusdeadbeatdaughter]

In what world is taylor swift considered a tortured poet? Tortured is burroughs on heroin, is sylvia's head in the oven, is hunter s thompsons sheer lunacy, is lynch saying he'll shoot himself if he forgets a good idea, is bukowski being a deadbeat misogynist fuck up, is a beat poet in psychosis, is 27 club, is junkie scholar, is manic depressive diagnoses, is active drug dependency, is suicidal ideations. For a beloved world famous white girl popstar to take on the title of the tortured poet is the ultimate bastardization of the tortured poet...

#so so many others immortalized in art bc of their common anguish... none of which is billionaire mainstream americas sweetheart! #so many artists more qualified for the title who didnt even proclaim themselves as such...

[cinematopeia2]

America's Sweethearts | Os Queridinhos da América 2001 Joe Roth

#America's Sweethearts #Os Queridinhos da América #2001 #Joe Roth

[souvlakic]

#courtney love #america's sweetheart #hole #girlblogger #ethereal #kinderwhore #riot grrrl #coquette #girlhood #girlcore #gaslight gatekeep girlblog #girlblogging #lana del rey #lana del ray aka lizzy grant

[fawndollita]

baby it’s a sweet life sing it like a song ୨୧ ୨୧

#lana del rey #lizzy grant #vintage americana #coquette #lana unreleased #trailer park darling #nymph3t #americana #born to die #this is what makes us girls #old hollywod glamour #old hollywood #trailer park princess #vintage love #classic hollywood #lana del ray aesthetic #america’s sweetheart #just girly thoughts #50s #60s #coney island queen #sweetheart #put me in a movie #elvis presley #nympette #lizzy grant summer #born to die summer #marilyn monroe #this is a girlblog #queen of the gas station