You’re in practically every frame of Clueless. The cast of Clueless: Paul Rudd, Justin Walker, Elisa Donovan, Jeremy Sisto, Stacey Dash, Alicia Silverstone, Donald Faison, Brittany Murphy, Breckin Meyer, 1995 Photo: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection That’s why I was surprised Amy thought you were right for Cher just based on the “Cryin” video. It was a really great acting part that was different because… Well, first of all I didn't know I was funny. Maybe other people knew, but I was so innocent and never really paying attention to career stuff at all. But I don't think we had any intellectual idea about us being up-and-comers in a big movie because we didn't know we were in a big movie. I brought my mom around a little bit and we would all spend time together. Did you bond at all as up-and-comers at the center of this big studio movie? You were both the only members of the core cast who were actual teenagers at the time of filming. Of course she was the best, she’s the one.” I found her so wonderful and I said to Amy right away “I think she's the one! She was the best one you guys!” hoping they would agree. She's so good at the little accent because she had one already, but I think she just pushed it to new heights. I can't remember how many girls came in to audition for Tai that day and I don't know if I saw a few girls for it or just her, but I remember Brittany being really adorable. I just remember thinking she was so great for the part. What do you remember from your first meeting with Brittany Murphy? Like when she takes Tai around the school pointing out the different social circles. I wasn't trying to be like them because I didn't think Cher was like that, but there were moments where Cher could be that when she’d walk through the hallways judging everybody. I can think of some specific girls in my life who were really mean and materialistic. She had a real distaste for materialism and all that came with that kind of behavior, so I would notice that quality in people I grew up with. I grew up with a mom who was so practical and absolutely loathed extravagance. There were some girls in my life who were extremely materialistic. How much of her was drawn from real people in your life? I was the exact opposite and knew nothing.ĭuring the Clueless press cycle, you talked about how you grew up with a lot of girls like Cher. Amy knew all the street words and had her finger on the pulse of the latest underground everything. Most of the dialogue was a different language. Most of the time I didn't even know what Cher was talking about. I don't know! It may have been heifers, but I may also just not have known what it was. I remember doing a scene outside with Stacey Dash where we were walking to class or something. “I tried to take all the things that were in this sort of pretty 1800s world and see what that would be like if it was in Beverly Hills.” “The plot was so brilliantly laid out in Emma,” Heckerling once said of her inspiration. Loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma, the teen comedy was the writer-director’s attempt to translate the classic tale of youthful hubris and misconstrued romance into something appetizing for the MTV crowd. Heckerling spent months studying real Los Angeles high school students to perfect the Valley Girl vernacular at the heart of Clueless. It’s a glossy teen comedy, biting high school satire, deeply satsifying rom-com, and subversive literary adaptation all at once. Written and directed by Amy Heckerling, Clueless continues to resonate because there’s so much happening beneath its trim, 97-minute surface for anyone to admire. Still a permanent presence on cable and streaming services, the 1995 classic never truly left the cultural consciousness or the day-to-day lives of its fervant cult following that continues to grow with every generational cycle. Twenty-five years after Clueless dropped into theaters on July 19 amidst a summer dominated by Bad Boys and Batman Forever, its grip on pop culture has only tightened.
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