Reiner and Scheinman acted out every page of Andre’s dialogue and recorded it on tape so that Andre could memorize it. Andre the Giant was incredibly insecure about his ability to speak English fluently for his role of Fezzik. She had to temporarily leave the soap opera she was on ( Santa Barbara) to film the movie, and her bosses on the TV show tacked an extra year on to her contract in exchange for the time off.ģ. It turned out that she grew up watching Monty Python with her father and her accent was spot on. Reiner and Scheinman saw hundreds of young, up and coming actresses for the role of Buttercup, but never considered Wright because she isn’t British. Robin Wright was an unlikely find to play Princess Buttercup. And Rob was like, ‘Don’t go if you din’t want to.’ ” But Reiner and Scheinman went and ended up offering Cary the part after hearing him read just a half page of dialogue.Ģ. “I’m looking at maps, and they have gray areas where the nuclear fallout is, and I don’t like it. When Rob Reiner, the movie’s director, and Andy Scheinman, Reiner’s producing partner, decided that they wanted to see Elwes for the role, he was in East Germany shooting an independent film-and the Chernobyl disaster had occurred just months earlier. The producers of The Princess Bride almost didn’t meet Cary Elwes, who would play the iconic leading man, Westley. Get your copy: Amazon/ Barnes & Noble/ IndieBoundġ. Here are just 9 funny, surprising, and (why not) inconceivable things you’ll learn when you read As You Wish (which, by the way, is coming out in paperback October 4th! The book is packed with sweet stories and little-known details from the filming of the movie, along with sidebars from his costars (like House of Cards‘ Robin Wright, Billy Crystal, Wallace Shawn, and more), the crew, and even the author of the book the film is based on, William Golding. (Related: Celebrate Patton Oswalt’s Emmy Win With A Flashback From His Memoir, Silver Screen Fiend) If you can’t find The Princess Bride on cable, the next best thing is reading As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride by Cary Elwes, who played the dashing, debonair, and still eminently swoon-worthy Westley. Confession: I’ve been known to cancel my plans for the evening if I’m flipping through the channels and happen to stumble upon The Princess Bride, one of the most beloved movies of my childhood, the 80s, and basically of all time.
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