“I read it on the subway in Manhattan and I laughed out loud as I turned the pages,” Sorvino told TODAY. They were like, 'You have an Oscar nomination, we should be really precious about your decisions,'" Sorvino told TODAY. "I remember my agents being very cautious about it because they felt it was kind of low-brow comedy. The Harvard graduate loved the idea of playing Romy, but her team tried to prevent her from taking the part, thinking it was a "low-brow" follow-up for an Oscar-nominated performance. Kudrow had a few seasons of “Friends” under her belt when she was approached to do the film, while Sorvino had just appeared in the 1995 Woody Allen film “Mighty Aphrodite,” which earned her an Academy Award nomination (and later a win) for best supporting actress.
“Usually, studios don’t give a s- about the female audience, but for that little window, at that particular time, they did.” I think that it was a little window where execs cared about the female audience,” Schiff explained. “Those films had a huge young female audience that would go to the movies again and again. Schiff believes two things over everything else got the film made: Kudrow’s celebrity stemming from “Friends,” which started in 1994, and film studios finally beginning to understand the power of women audiences, thanks to the success of cultural juggernauts like “Clueless” and “Titanic,” fueled in part by teenage girls buying tickets. Facing their 10-year reunion, Romy and Michele come up with a lie to impress their classmates. Upgraded to being the movie's leading ladies, Romy and Michele became 28-year-olds best friends who haven't accomplished much in the decade since graduating high school in their new iteration. Pretty different than how they wound up being in the movie.” 25 years after “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” opened in theaters, the comedy starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino is still just as timeless as ever.Īfter reading the play, Disney executives centered in on the duo, envisioning Romy and Michele as a female version of Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar from “Wayne’s World.” In the play, they were pretty disgusting. I wanted there to be two girls who go to the bar just looking for guys. “Romy and Michele were filler characters who appeared between the scenes with the main characters. I felt like we hadn’t heard how women talk when men aren’t around, so I wanted to capture that,” Schiff told TODAY about the premise of the play. Written by Robin Schiff, Romy White and Michele Weinberger were originally written as supporting characters who hung out in the women's bathroom of a bar. The film’s origin story begins with the 1987 play “Ladies Room,” which starred a young Kudrow as Michele. Romy and Michele were situated somewhere on the outskirts of the popularity hierarchy, and this is what has connected the film to legions of fans over the last two and a half decades - that "je ne sais quoi" of adolescence that almost everyone who has experienced their share of teen angst can relate to. The film’s main protagonists weren’t at the top of the high school food chain, but they also weren’t quite on the bottom.
I just love my turkey neck.Īnd secondly the famous dance scene (performed to the music of Ms Cyndi Lauper, who I would work with many years later).25 years after “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” opened in theaters, the comedy starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino remains just as relevant as ever. Here are two clips.first of all my favourite scene, the one which flashes forward and Lisa and I are old people. Then the next person said it and I realised I was the one who had it wrong!! At the read-through an actor pronouced 'Tucson' (where the film is set) correctly and I snorted, thinking that they had made a sort of joke because I really thought it was pronounced 'Tuck-son'. He is the geeky boy at high school with Romy and Michele who returns in Michele's dreams, and finally really appears at the high school reunion in a helicopter, having become very rich after discovering a new form of rubber. Luckily my character, Sandy Frink, was similarly challenged. I was seriously busking it in terms of my understanding of the jokes and references in the script.
ROMI AND MICHELLES HIGHSCHOOL REUNION MOVIE
The film climaxes in a dance between me and Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino (for which we were nominated for a MTV movie award, thank you very much), which has also become really iconic. For me, it was a total revelation, because I had never been to a prom or a reunion ever in my life. It's actually amazing to me how this film struck a chord with people all over the world, but especially in America. I still can't understand why they cast me!! It was also the first time I had ever played an American character on film. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was the first film I made in the US, indeed the first time I'd ever worked in any capacity in the US.
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