“Everybody was thinking, It’s a kids movie,” director Melanie Mayron said. “But I wanted it to have a great cast.”
— Vulture (@vulture) July 3, 2020
This is an oral history of the Baby-Sitters Club movie. @jessicagolds reports https://t.co/8hWnuUnVEk
Director Melanie Mayron and the cast of the 1995 film reminisced about the past. It's a long read, but worth it.
Some highlights:
-Melanie Mayron STILL hasn't read the BSC books
-They told Bre Blair (Stacy) she would have to perm her hair - she said no, and had her hair in curlers every day on set
-Stacey Linn Ramsower's (Mallory) hair was dyed and permed for the role
-Everyone was in awe of Zelda Harris (Jessi) who had been in a Spike Lee film
-It took them forever to find a Kristy. Sissy Spacek was a friend of Mayron's, so they had Schuyler Fisk read some lines. Her dad then drove to FedEx in a storm to mail off the videotape.
-Bre Blair has the same penmanship as Stacy in the books (see photo at the source)
-Everyone thought Peter Horton (Kristy's dad) was hot, and this is mentioned many times
-Kevin Costner was friends with the producers and had his 2 kids play campers - one was the girl who wouldn't talk
-Bre Blair (14) got her first period the day she had to kiss Luca (whose actor was 22)
-The movie was supposed to debut in September as a Scholastic books/back-to-school sort of thing, and then it got bumped up to August, hence it's abysmal box office
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Another excuse to discuss the movie/Netflix series...