Sofia Coppolastill has Trip Fontaine’s wig.
“It’s in my storage!”
“It was probably not the best quality wig,” Coppola admits.
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“But it worked.”
I started working on one just as a kind of practice.
I thought I would just do a few chapters."
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The result was a low-budget shoot in Canada, with Toronto standing in for suburban ’70s Michigan.
To play the young blonde sisters, Coppola cast mostly unknowns.
(Woods, they all agree, was the most competitive and took laser tag extremely seriously.)
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Like inGrease, they’re all like in their 30s.
They never look like teenagers in our real life or at school.
I didn’t relate to them very often.
“It was the most calm and inviting arena to do anything,” the actor says.
“It felt like nothing I’d done before.”
It’s going to be okay."
It was just a mess."
“He was like, oh my gosh!
Mary’s joining our cast!”
“The fact that it’s been over 20 years is just mind-blowing,” Cook says.
“Virgin Suicidesis that experience that I keep finding myself chasing, you know?
It was this amazing experience that was so collective and such a learning experience for me.”
“I think it was the beginning of me finding confidence as an adult,” says Hartnett.
“Everything’s changed since then.
It’s been almost 22 years since we shot it.
That’s so many lifetimes; it’s absolutely insane.
“You couldn’t ask for more.”
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