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Paul Haggis:"I couldn’t watch Crash for two and a half years after it was made."
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 04, 2016, 11:37:47 pm ---How Crash Crashed the Oscars
An oral history of a Best Picture shocker.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/crash-oscar-best-picture-oral-history-c-v-r.html
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EXCERPT:
HAGGIS: Thandie Newton was the second actor I sent it to, and she said yes. Others said, “Yeah, I’m not gonna do this,” and ran away. I also lost a lot of actors because it kept getting pushed. John Cusack wanted to play the Matt Dillon role, Heath Ledger was going play the Ryan Phillippe role; Forest Whitaker was actually locked in to play Terrence Howard's role but dropped out. And Brendan Fraser was the last one cast, as the district attorney. He essentially green-lit the movie.
YARI: When Heath left the movie, we dropped in foreign value a little bit, which brought the budget down to around $6.5 million. Many actors wouldn’t come on the film at all because they said, “It’s a first-time director.” But I stuck with Paul.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 04, 2016, 11:37:47 pm ---How Crash Crashed the Oscars
An oral history of a Best Picture shocker.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/crash-oscar-best-picture-oral-history-c-v-r.html
--- End quote ---
EXCERPT:
HAGGIS: It’s the end of the show and I’m sitting across from the Brokeback producers. I turn to face them so I could applaud and not be caught looking like an asshole on camera. I’m all ready to clap for Ang Lee, and I hear Jack Nicholson say, “And the Oscar goes to … Crash.” I felt someone stand up behind me, and it’s my wife. I was so confused. “She loved Brokeback Mountain that much?” And then I realized, “Oh my God, we won.” I had no speech, so thank God Cathy had prepared. The room was thunderous..
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