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Movie while you were sleeping8/10/2023 “I just had to surrender any kind of self-consciousness with regard to what my body might be doing while I’m sound asleep,” Gallagher told Vulture. However, his key attribute, it would turn out, was his ability to doze off on set, which made the scenes in which he lies comatose more authentic. He was appropriately slick and handsome – the original of the suave businessman species later exemplified by Mr Big in Sex and the City – and those eyebrows should have had their own multi-picture deal. Even when Speed was released, she wasn’t a huge star – I think she even considers WYWS her breakout movie, the one that launched her career.”įor the part as dishy but mostly unconscious Peter Callaghan, Turteltaub cast TV actor Peter Gallagher. “And at the time she wasn’t that well known. “Sandra contacted the studio and said it was just the kind of thing she wanted to do, that she could relate to so much of it – especially the loneliness, the importance of family,” said Sullivan to Buzzfeed. Matthew McConaughey auditioned for the Pullman part, but the producers found his thick Texas accent offputting. Lucy was also offered to Julia Roberts and Demi Moore. Geena Davis was rumoured to be playing Lucy, with Harrison Ford as Jack. Turteltaub had signed on understanding While You Were Sleeping would have a heavyweight cast. After a long search and a lot of auditioning, I was able to get While You Were Sleeping.” “I was desperate to find a real romantic comedy, because that was like a real grown-up movie. Every script had some kid with a disease and some animal who was his best friend…,” he recalled to Slashfilm in 2010. “The only movies I got sent were kids’ movies. Alas, that film had typecast him as a director of cute family comedies. He’d had a hit with the John Candy Jamaican bobsled drama Cool Runnings in 1993. If While You Were Sleeping was a big break for Lebow and Sullivan, it was also a huge opportunity for director Jon Turteltaub. Sullivan, by contrast, was celebrating a lottery win by his brother. Lebow’s father died the night before the sale was closed. Yet this fulfilment of a lifelong dream was tempered with sadness. And then came the great extinction event as cinema-goers had a messy public break-up with the genre, fleeing instead into the arms of superheroes and prestige TV. But, much as the end of the age of the dinosaurs witnessed a flourish of gonzo big lizards with weird horns and too many teeth, so the heyday of the Truly Bonkers Romcom was dominated by grotesque, lumbering date movies. Romcoms have a rich lineage extending all the way back to Hollywood in the wisecracking Thirties and Forties (or perhaps even further: there is a school of opinion Shakespeare invented the romcom with A Midsummer’s Night Dream). And there is no more unsettling example than the bizarre, coma-themed Sandra Bullock blockbuster While You Were Sleeping, which marks its 25th anniversary today. This was the golden age of the Truly Bonkers Romcom (“TBR”, as experts refer to it today). That’s especially true of the lighthearted entertainments of the era. From the admittedly dystopian vantage point of 2020, the Nineties can feel like a foreign country.
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