How Do You Drew Episode 124 – 50 First Dates
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I’m Anne.
And I’m Ashley, and this week
we’re discussing 50 First Dates.
I love how you surprised me with
the Aloha.
I surprised myself.
It was literally on the fly.
Wait, I just realized you were
like wearing a themed.
Outfit.
Yeah, of course.
I’m just in like.
All black.
Like beanie hair flattened with
my head, Whatever.
You’re in Maine, you’re not in
Hawaii.
Vibes.
It’s OK, you’re in true.
No, it’s literally like 30° or
less here right now so it
doesn’t feel very tropical, but
it’s fun to like watch this and
feel warm for a second.
Yeah, let’s, let’s take you
there in our imagination.
With this.
Film.
Before we get into that, we have
a couple quick things at the
top, but then we’ll get right
into the movie, guys.
Yeah, cuz this is a biggie.
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One more thing before we get
into the episode.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
That’s one of the huge reasons
that we’re doing this episode
right now.
Like very.
Yeah, this is our little love
message to you guys and.
Also, happy birthday to Drew our
girl.
This is the last episode that
we’ll have before her birthday,
so we have to put it out now,
our girl.
Happy birthday to you.
We love you.
Happy birthday, Drew 51.
Sorry we’re not there to
celebrate with you this year.
I’m sure you’re really bummed
about it.
Now let’s get into it.
All right, 50 First Dates is
directed by Peter Segal, who
Drew absolutely loves, and it’s
really sweet to see that little
relationship.
And it was written by George
Wing, so he’s the official
credited writer.
He wrote the original
screenplay, which we will talk
about.
There are a lot of uncredited
rewrites by several other
people.
Drew specifically mentions that
Alan Covert, Tim Hurley, and
Adam Sandler of course work
diligently every day of to
enhance the script and make the
scenes funnier.
So Adam and his normal crew all
had their hands in this one,
just like The Wedding Singer and
I’m sure all of his other films.
Yeah, and we’ll get into some of
those changes from the original
script while we’re going through
the movie, so that’ll be fun
too.
The movie was produced by Jack
Jaraputo, Steve Golan and Nancy
Juvonen.
We were both surprised to find
out that Drew and Adam
themselves are not credit as
producers, but of course their
companies are.
So we have Flower Films and
Happy Madison like at the top,
but it’s weird so.
Confused by that?
It seems very weird to me.
Well let’s have a produce so
credit on this.
Like what?
Well.
What about like like on
Charlie’s Angels is she listed
herself as a OK?
Interesting.
I don’t know.
I wonder what the the reason
was.
Maybe they like we’re a little
bit more hands off in some ways.
Who knows?
Seem like it, but who knows?
We don’t.
We don’t know about the showbiz.
Right.
And the movie, as we said at the
top, this is the anniversary of
the film right around now.
So it was released on February
So happy 22nd anniversary to
Dates crazy and I love that
neither of us were like, oh it’s
a cool anniversary.
Like your boyfriend was the one
who pointed out 22.
Like, he’s like, what’s Drew’s
favorite number?
I was like, oh, like I felt
really stupid for a second
because as I said it out loud, I
was like, maybe thought it, but
like we weren’t thinking about
that.
But anyway, 22 for Drew’s
birthday on 2/22.
Works out so well.
Works out so well.
We love when the stuff happens
accidentally on purpose.
Yeah, numbered nerds.
OK, here is our description.
This time we’re going to do it
from Prime, Amazon Prime rather
than IMDb, because I thought
this one was better.
So here we go.
A Hawaiian island Playboy has to
use his imagination to win over
the girl of his dreams when he
discovers she has no short term
memory.
Every night he has erased from
her memory so he has to make her
fall in love with him all over
again the next day.
Perfect.
Well said.
Yeah, that pretty much.
That’s what I need.
Yeah.
OK, so now let’s get into the
making of.
So we always have these like
heavy, sort of.
Here’s what we learned about
what happened before the movie
even came out.
Yeah, so much yes.
Okay, so originally the title of
the film was 50 First Kisses, and it
was more of like a small sad
melodrama that mostly took place
in the cafe.
So already like many different
feelings.
The screenwriter also said it
was a small, personal little
movie that was changed.
I wonder how they felt about
that.
Do we know anything about?
I was reading the article where
that quote came from and it it
sounded more like he was just
surprised that it became this
huge big budget thing.
I don’t know that he was like
upset about it, but he was just
like, wow, I wasn’t expecting
this.
That’s interesting.
Nancy had found the script.
So Nancy Duvone, we mentioned
her earlier, Drew’s major
partner, if you guys don’t know
that she found the script while
Drew was filming, writing cars
with.
And Drew really only wanted to
focus on writing cars with boys
at that moment, which makes
sense.
She was, like, so serious about
what was going on, deeply into
it.
Yeah.
And Nancy insisted that she read
it so she felt.
Strongly about that I could.
Totally.
Picture that.
Yeah, me too.
So Drew, of course, knew once
she read it, she had to be
involved in some way with this
movie.
And she didn’t know whether she
was going to have time to do
that as an actress or if we
would just be producing.
But she just loved the message
of the script, which was to her,
how do you Make Love stay?
And she told People magazine to
reinvent love every day is what
people should be doing for each
other.
And she also told Glamour, I
believe in the premise of the
film, which is that you can fall
in love with someone every day.
And it is also a comedy.
And I love to laugh.
And I think that love and
laughter go hand in hand.
So she’s just like, yes, this is
I Even if it was, like, so
wildly different at the time.
Yeah.
That script, like the core
message of it, spoke to her big.
Time, yes, big time.
Which is she?
She’s like, is consistent, like
laughter, love, like we know
those are things that Drew is
like.
Those are the things that have
to go hand in hand.
If somebody can’t make me laugh,
I can’t.
And you not love them?
Yeah.
Exactly.
So anyway, so they had
considered like casting another
actress since Drew was so busy,
which is so interesting to think
of crazy.
So they staged a table read with
Drew reading this part of Lucy
and she totally fell in love
with it.
She said it felt small, deep and
very emotional.
So I like how like what she was
getting out of, I’m guessing the
original version of the script
they were reading.
So like it was called like small
personal.
Like small always comes up,
little like, you know in this
one, little like the the
director refers to the original
script.
Being in the cafe is like very
claustrophobic.
Like to me, I’m almost imagining
it was like a play.
Yeah.
Like you could, I mean, maybe
that’s how the adaptation that
we’ll talk about much later and
maybe more like I don’t know,
but it’s interesting they keep
using small when like because
Hawaii is so expansive.
Yes.
I don’t know, there’s something
opposite.
Yeah.
Of like a little cafe, yeah.
So Flower Films kept losing the
chance to get to the rights to
this movie for like, years, like
Drew wanted it.
And then she said in Wildflower
a few weeks later, Nancy called
her and said they’re giving the
script to someone else, another
company, and they won’t say who.
And Drew said, I was sick.
There was something about this
film that had lit a fire in me
that not only wouldn’t
extinguish, it burned brighter
by the week.
I followed it like a hawk.
So she’s just like, who has this
movie and how do I get involved?
She felt strongly.
Yeah.
After changing many hands, as
we’ve been kind of inferring,
they found out that had finally
landed at Happy Madison, which
is Adam Sandler’s production
pump company that I mentioned
earlier.
How convenient.
And they like right away they’re
like, we need to get in there.
And so November 2001, Variety
announced that Adam was eyeing
it and could potentially Co star
with Julia Roberts, which like,
no, that would be so I know.
We’re.
Both like no.
No.
So in 2002, while filming
Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle
on the Sony lot, Drew got out
her typewriter and wrote a
letter to Adam.
I love that so much of.
Course.
So she said.
I started typing and it was like
conducting a Symphony.
The tears in me started to swell
as I wrote about my history with
this script.
How long I had loved it, why I
had loved it, how I truly felt
once again in my bones that I
was supposed to have something
to do with it.
She always has those like deep
instinctual feelings about the
projects.
She talks about that like with
Adam specifically, like she felt
like they had to be a duo and
like.
It doesn’t make sense, but I
promise that this is right.
She’s always.
Saying like, Oh yeah, I met him
with purple hair in my leopard
coat and I was we were so
different.
We couldn’t be more different,
but I knew.
Drew also said she felt the film
was worthy of their re teaming
and wrote this is it, this is
the one.
I know it.
Great instincts again.
Yeah.
So she had this letter delivered
to his office, but that was also
on the Sony lot.
So it was just like, probably a
little bike rider right over and
picturing that.
Yeah.
And then Adam just walked over
to her trailer and he said, of
course, but we’re going to turn
it into a comedy.
And Drew said that’s fine as
long as it doesn’t lose its
romance, which is kind of like,
we’ll see.
That’s sort of how Happy Madison
Flower films like, collaborated
on this.
Like, you guys do the comedy,
we’re going to do the romance.
Let’s make sure they’re both
there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then in October of 2002, I
love that we have all these
dates.
Your research is there.
Thank you.
Thank you.
In October of 2002, it was
already rumoured that Drew would
join Adam in the film.
So let’s see, what was that
timeline like?
She says while they’re filming.
Yeah.
Within like months, yeah.
Instantly.
They each knew what the guys and
girls wanted, so you kind of
said this like the romance, the
comedy, and they decided that
they wanted to produce it
together as Flower Films and
Happy Madison as a duo.
Nancy considered their companies
sorority and the fraternity,
which that makes sense too.
They would compare script notes
after each draft.
So like, the production
companies really were working
together, like at every step.
During editing, Nancy says that
director Pete Segal was really
good about giving both teams
what they wanted.
That’s also really cool.
And they go through that in the
commentary a lot to like, this
was almost gone.
But then they fought for it.
And like, we don’t, we would
thought this was really funny.
Like, it’s neat.
Andrew said it was like the
smoothest editing process she’s
ever seen as a producer.
And then he agreed that it was
just like everything was so on
point.
Everyone knew what they were
they were doing and what they
wanted.
Like it was amazing.
So cool.
And then like it was a true
collaboration between the two
companies.
That’s so cool.
So cool.
OK, so let’s talk a little bit
about some of the main cast
members.
Of course, Adam Sandler is Henry
Roth and Drew calls him her
cinematic soulmate.
This is their second of three
films together, the first being
The Wedding Singer and the
second being Blended.
And we did have a great episode
about The Wedding Singer if you
guys want to hear that.
It’s from episode 71 and we
released that two years ago for
Valentine’s Day 2024.
So crazy.
It took us like 2 entire years
to get to this one, but well.
I think we were like to save it.
Like felt like, yes, we were
precious about this, just like
we were about Charlie’s Angels,
but like it totally it.
Was time.
Yeah.
And we also have an episode all
about Drew and Adam’s friendship
relationship, and that’s episode
popular episodes, so that’s
pretty cool.
I always wonder if it’s because
people think he like guessed it
on the episode.
I always think that if people
are, like, searching Adam
Sandler, they see like this
whatever podcast with his name.
Like what?
Yeah.
Whoops.
Oh well.
So Drew said it’s exciting to
make a love story with someone
you truly think is the greatest
person in the world.
It just comes naturally to me
every day to act like I’m in
love with him.
OK and then of course we have
Drew as Lucy Whitmore, she says
about the role.
I could not have enjoyed being
her more, which she loved Julia
so much too and The Wedding
Singer so I feel like her love.
I’ve really idolized Julia, I
feel like.
Yeah.
Do you think it’s a coincidence?
I’ve always wondered this, that
the names Julia and Lucy are
both like in major Beatles songs
like.
I feel like it probably has to
be a coincidence unless they
change the names in the.
I know I like.
I would love to know if they
were originally different names
because it’s such a cool, such a
cool cosmic thing, so.
Also I I feel like there it’s
probably twofold, like maybe
it’s a coincidence, but also
like Drew might have been
attracted to the roles for their
names.
Maybe, maybe maybe it was like a
sign to her right I need to do.
This and why she felt so
strongly.
Yeah, it’s just like something
cosmic about these names.
OK, Rob Schneider as Ola, I feel
like I have a lot to say about
him.
So Drew and Nancy were concerned
at first when he was kind of
describing to them what he
wanted to do with the character.
Like he’s talked about the wig
and the prosthetic eye.
But they ended up being so happy
with the resulting quote.
Endearing and wonderful
character.
And that’s kind of how I feel
Like I don’t want to like it.
I wonder if there’s like a
cultural appropriation thing we
should be upset with.
I think he’s had some, like,
really bad political views in
the last few years.
No, but you end up loving the
character.
Like, in spite of all of it.
Because he’s, like, a sweet wing
man to, like, Henry’s character.
His kids are funny.
Like, there is something.
Yeah.
It is like, you kind of want to,
like, think he’s annoying or
weird or like, is this OK?
Like a little ick.
And then it’s not.
I have to say one more thing
about the prosthetic eye.
So I noticed that K&B Studios
was listed as the.
What makeup?
No way, I totally missed that.
And which is what they did
scream, right?
So it does.
I’ve done like lots of great
stuff, but I noticed that and I
was like, what would be
prosthetic?
Maybe also Ula’s scar from like
his little like shark bite.
I just realized, well I guess
her thing is probably CG her
like makeup for her hospital
picture.
Maybe not, I don’t know.
Yeah, maybe.
Interesting.
Wow, that’s so cool.
But yeah, it can be.
I was like, whoa.
So the first thing I thought of
was the eye on Rob’s.
Yeah.
And then we have Sean Astin as
Doug Whitmore.
I low key love Sean.
That like, feels correct.
I’m like, yes, of course I
loved.
The Goonies growing up, but Drew
has also known him since the
Goonie days.
So cool and I love this fact.
So he sent a tape of himself in
character.
Some of it’s on like the DVD
featurettes, but it’s really
funny because he’s like, I think
he’s like playing maybe 2
characters or like couple
versions of this character.
Doug, it’s really funny and I
think he does an amazing job as
his character.
So he came up with the lisp and
worked out like crazy to make
his body like Botter
Bodybuilder.
Although this is like one of
many times there’s CG in the
movie.
He has like the little chest.
Yeah, but I need to describe.
I had that like chest.
Dancing, yeah.
I was really surprised to hear
that that was CGI.
But like, once I knew I would, I
could kind of tell, but I always
believed in it.
Before I just thought like, oh,
that’s one of the things he
learned to do because that would
be freaking hilarious.
But it’s also hilarious.
You would never think that was
CGI.
I mean, there are so many things
there like I forget they said in
the commentary going on a side
to side thing about like how
many?
I forgot how many it was.
It was a lot.
A lot of like tiny ones you
would never even.
Right, like waterless.
Which are the best ones you know
to me?
Yeah, exactly.
Like you don’t even know.
Let it be subtle.
That’s like a David Fincher, all
his CGI.
When you know about it, you’re
like blown away cuz you never
would have noticed it.
There’s like good YouTube videos
about that I’ll send you.
OK Finally, just to round out
the main cast, we have Blake
Clark as Marlin Whitmore, Lucy’s
dad.
Or is it?
And like when he says Marlin,
everyone just said like, the
best things to say about him.
And Drew specifically said that
he makes the tone of the film
come alive in the most profound
ways and brings a primal
parental thing.
And apparently she always called
him Dad on set, which I’m like,
of course.
Of course.
And also, like when she
described it that way and I was
watching the movie, I was like,
totally.
Yeah, he just like.
Loves her so much, wants to
protect her.
That’s his entire plan.
And he is funny because like,
he’s like a stand up comedian,
but he’s funny in like a very
subtle way in this movie, like
Merlin.
His his like timing is comedic,
but then his like character is
like, well, that’s the thing
about this movie.
I think it like toes that line
of like serious and then comedy,
like each person pretty much,
especially the main character is
especially Drew have to like
show this range.
That’s kind of insane.
Yeah, it’s definitely balancing
like 2 really different tones,
but it succeeds in my opinion.
Yep, and we’re going to shout
out a lot of the other cast
throughout this talk.
We’ve touched the major ones.
There are lots of, like, great
little people in this movie.
Yeah, it’s quite a good cast.
Yeah, it’s it’s really, I mean,
if you haven’t seen it, you’re
listening to this.
What?
But also, yeah, this has like, I
guess like a lot of Adam Sandler
movies, there’s like people who
have one great line, and some of
these are the Adam people.
There’s always like, weird
little random quirky characters.
Always, yes.
And, like, lots of ad libbing,
weirdly, Yeah.
OK, so let’s get into Drew’s
beautiful luck in this movie.
Oh.
So Drew has long blonde
extensions, which were Indian
hair extensions dyed blonde and
they were done by Susan
Lippmann.
I know that you love this hair.
Of course, the second that she
showed up with this hair in
March 2003 and it was printed in
a tabloid, I literally took it
to my hairdresser.
I was like, I want my hair this
blonde because my hair was a bit
darker than that.
And I mean, it’s still to this
day, it’s exactly how my hair is
right now.
Yeah, pretty much, which is why
that costume for you, which
we’ll talk about later, was.
So easy.
So more about Drew’s beautiful
look.
Her hair and makeup on the film
were done by Lana VG and Robin
Frederick’s respectively.
This was their very first of
many future times working on
Drew.
They were frequently
collaborators of Cameron Diaz,
including on Charlie’s Angels
Full Throttle.
So makes sense how Drew got to
know them.
Yep, both of them became some of
her best friends.
Like truly.
So it’s really neat that this is
like.
Where it started, Yeah, I didn’t
realize that.
So seeing that in the notes I
was like.
Oh, that’s so.
Cool.
I had like, I think I, I think I
remembered that they had worked
with Cameron, but I didn’t
realize this was their first
with Drew.
It’s pretty cool.
That’s fun.
Robin said that Henry is
attracted to Drew’s natural
beauty, so she made Drew look
sun kissed with tinted
moisturizer and sheer blush.
And for those of you out there
who are beauty junkies, she used
Stila and Giorgio Armani makeup
products for Drew’s look.
So there’s a little info for
you.
It is.
Very simple look, but there are
moments when like there are
little choices like we’ll talk
about like eyeliner, eyeliner.
But like usually, yeah, it’s
just sun kissed simple.
Like her lips I don’t think are
ever like a dark color in this.
Now they’re always like a simple
like light pink.
Lucy’s like a casual girl, you
know, She just like, quickly
gets ready and goes to her
breakfast.
I mean every day.
I was also thinking like Julia
is supposed to be like simple
like that.
Like she’s doesn’t.
I guess there are times when
Julia has lipstick though.
She does, But Mona Mae
specifically told us, if you
guys don’t know, we do have an
episode with costume designer
Mona Mae that she wanted just be
like, let’s throw on a dress
and, like, keep it simple, yeah.
Right.
And Drew loved that, and I feel
that way for this.
Obviously it’s very different
costume wise.
So the assistant costume
designers for Drew were Claire
and Nina Hallworth, who are
otherwise known as the Style
team.
Nina and Claire who worked for a
Drew on some of her photo shoots
and gave us a quote for the 2001
movie Line episode.
No idea.
Crazy.
Like when I was reading the
credits, I was like, Claire and
Nina, wait a second, wait a
second.
We like talk to them.
And that’s so neat to find out.
Like they didn’t even mention
that when we were.
Talking to them, Maybe they
have.
We do maybe maybe they forgot.
I feel like these people who do
just non-stop jobs, they just
don’t have it at the top of
their minds.
Like I don’t blame them and if.
We’re like specifically asking
about something they might be
like they don’t want to know
about everything else.
But yeah, who?
Knows so, Drew, said.
Her primary outfit by the end of
the filming.
She, like, hated it.
She’s.
Like, why, Oh my God, why did I
choose this outfit?
But she said it’s what felt like
something you’d wear just going
out to breakfast on a Sunday.
And actually, there was one
point when I was looking at her,
like, white cargo pants or
whatever those pants are.
Like they are like, not that
cute.
No, it’s very simple and basic.
Right.
But I was like, she had to wear
that every day.
What pants?
How many times do you think
those pants got dirty?
I.
Mean they probably had like 15
copies of them at least.
That’s true.
Consider here’s her outfit for
however many Yeah, they were
filming this.
I do love when, like, suddenly
she starts wearing a bunch of
different looks.
Yes, so many of them.
As I was watching, I was like,
oh, I had something.
I tried to copy that.
Oh, I tried to copy that look.
I was really inspired by that
one.
There’s certain dresses.
I’m like, oh I still want that
dress.
This definitely took me back to
the mid 2000s and like my
personal journey.
Yes, but like that outfit, the
white, the white pants with the
pink is obviously most of the
movie.
Yeah, the identifiable 1.
Yes, absolutely.
OK, so filming started in March
through May.
And it’s crazy.
Like it almost looks like if you
look at kind of Drew’s
chronological, what she was up
to, it’s like she finished
filming this and then
immediately was off around the
world to promote Full Throttle.
It’s just like, wow, I know.
So during filming they were
still using the title 50 First
Kisses, which I have to say, I
really kind of miss it.
I still like that name. 50 First
kisses. 50 First dates. 50 First kisses
sound sweeter.
It sounds sweeter, yeah, which
is why they changed it.
We’ll talk about that later.
But it’s kind of funny.
Some of our behind the scenes
photos, they came from Adam
Sandler’s website back then,
like as they were filming.
And they’re literally titled
FFK.
Oh, how funny.
That’s cool.
That’s one reason I like that we
keep like original titles.
Yeah.
Sometimes I do not change titles
specifically for that reason.
And other times I’m like, this
needs to be more searchable.
It’s an ongoing process we’re
going through.
Our digital archive guys.
So the movie, it was mostly
filmed on Oahu, Hawaii.
Of course, some scenes were
filmed in California, including
Malibu.
And even randomly they shot a
scene in San Francisco, which is
so interesting.
But the movie was originally, I
mean, the script was originally
set in Seattle, which again is
part of like how that really
drastic shift from the original
tone to now like rainy little
Cafe in in Seattle to this like
expansive, beautiful Hawaii
scenery.
It’s like so.
Different.
When I started to try to picture
it, I was like, oh, it’d be cool
to see her like back in Seattle
after like.
I didn’t think about that.
So many years after Mad Love.
Yeah.
And I was like, well, that like
right away.
I’m like tonally so different.
But also I’d like, want her to
be like Casey.
But I was like, oh, that would
have been really interesting to.
Yeah.
It’s like one of those weird
like sliding doors moments.
What what could have been.
But so Adam and his team, they
decided, let’s move the locale
to Hawaii like no brainer.
Adam said it was such a
spectacularly beautiful place
for a romantic comedy.
Drew said that Hawaii kind of
became this real world and this
perfect romantic setting for you
to get lost in the story and the
fantasy.
It really is like a character in
the movie.
Some of the films really have
their like location as a
character.
And this is one of them, right?
And Drew, I felt so privileged
to be working in that setting.
Apparently she also mentioned
that they’d all traveled there
together, quote, as a group
after the wedding Singer, which
was like an interesting bit of
information to me.
So it’s almost like they were
planning the Hawaiian seeds.
I don’t know.
It’s kind of.
Interesting and also like cool.
Do we have pictures of that?
There’s like pictures of her
like really horrible paparazzi
pictures like 2 of them of her
there in like January 99 and
then but like the person taking
the pictures missed Adam.
I think I know the pictures
you’re talking.
About like, is she wearing like,
is she wearing like blue board
shorts on them?
Yes, yes.
This is a kind.
Of a fun thing so Drew would
basically have the director just
roll film while she was trying
different takes or line readings
rather than having him cut.
And they developed sort of like
a shorthand with each other.
They’d call it small, medium,
large performances that so that
like levity or drama was
available at any point.
Amazing crazy like imagine being
in.
Any room, and you have two very
different reads.
One’s funny and one’s serious,
like, And you just have to make
that choice.
That’s a lot of work.
Yeah, it feels like a lot.
Of like work emotionally.
Should we start doing that?
Do you?
Want me to do 5 different
readings of every line that I
say and then you get to choose
which one you like?
Yeah.
That sounds like so fun.
But I, I don’t know, I guess
like when they say the.
Editing process was easy, I
guess because they were just
like, all right, Select, we want
this and to be big.
Yeah, like, kind of random to
imagine, but cool.
In the commentary, he reveals
that he met her when she was in
elementary school and he was
working at a news station, and
they had done a story at her
school.
And I think she says, like,
we’ve known each other and
you’re mentioning this for the
first time.
Like that’s so crazy.
He I wonder if he literally just
like.
Remember, he says, he’s just
what it seems like.
Yeah, yeah, because it was just
random in the middle of the.
Commentary, but that’s so cool.
Really neat like.
What?
According to Drew.
Life was perfect while filming,
she said.
It was fun, wholesome, communal
and a moment in her life that
felt so safe she can’t even
begin to do it justice.
And Cameron Diaz flew out there
to visit while they filmed.
And like, at the hotel room next
to Drew’s, they rented a ping
pong table to go in the common
area between their two rooms.
And they took surfing lessons
together.
And supposedly, Drew got up on
her first wave.
Drew, that’s.
Cool, wasn’t on.
Hollywood Squares, like the
thing recently was like, Drew,
let’s just surf.
I think it’s at in Hawaii, yes.
And I was like.
Why are they reading my notes in
the future like this is so
creepy.
Everything times with this.
So weird.
But I was like true right away.
I was like, I feel like I knew.
Not like that it was necessarily
linked to 50 First states, but I
feel like I knew that she
learned to surf.
So I was like true, true.
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Let’s.
Get into the movie, guys.
Yay.
So the way we.
Do these is we basically are
focusing on Drew.
This is a Drew Barrymore
podcast.
We are not going to like go
through every view of the movie.
I mean, I like to try to give a
little bit of context to what
we’re talking about, but if you
haven’t seen it, like, obviously
tons of spoilers, but also we’re
not talking about every scene.
Drew’s in most of the movie.
So we’re talking about most of
the movie, but it’s more
disjointed than that.
There you go.
Yeah.
So.
For the opening montage, were
introduced to Henry’s bachelor
marine veterinarian life.
It’s it’s things go hand in
hand, right?
Exactly it works.
It’s.
It’s very silly.
So Adam.
So I’ll just I guess I’ll just
like briefly describe, but
there’s a bunch of different
women and then there’s Kevin
James and they’re all telling
the same story, sort of like
using each whatever, finishing
each other’s sentences, telling
the story of Adam being perfect
to all these tourists.
So Adam and the director’s wives
are they appear in the dentist
scene.
So Adam’s wife Jackie, who Drew
loves Jackie.
And then I mentioned Kevin
James.
He was just on The Drew
Barrymore Show and revealed that
this was his first time in a
movie.
Yeah, that’s kind of.
I mean, he became like a pretty
good big movie actor.
So I was like, I was like, wait,
none of those were before this.
And no, I know.
Same.
Pretty cool.
So yeah.
We kind of learned that Henry is
this like big time Playboy
player in Hawaii.
He dates the Taurus, they leave,
he doesn’t like commitment.
Works out great.
Okay so he wants to do this like
big sailing trip to Alaska to
study walruses and he’s in his
boat and it like wrecks or
breaks down and so he has to
kind of go to shore and he goes
to this little cafe that he’s
never been to before.
So then this is where we get to
see our girl.
It’s interesting to me and like
once I knew, I guess I could
tell, but the cafe is a sound
stage in Culver City.
Like they couldn’t film at the
actual cafe for some reason.
So all of those scenes indoors
are a set.
It’s so weird.
And the commentary talked about
much CGI was used for this.
Like what’s visible outside of
the windows of the cafe is like
all CGI.
Well, he did say that.
There’s like birds, like real
live birds, but that they came
into.
This like yeah, sounds just
like.
An actual like kind of big matte
painting backdrop, right?
But then they added like the
reflections on the water and
like boats.
So weird, but you wouldn’t think
about.
It no you really if it didn’t.
Have movement it would.
Probably feel a little weird,
but like there, there’s a lot of
like.
There was a lot of effort to
like make the back feel real,
which is cool.
It worked.
Yeah, Drew also said that she
actually had a big zit on her
face the day they’re filming her
first appearance, and she was
incredibly self-conscious about
it.
That’s so Drew to mention that.
I know it’s kind of funny.
Like I couldn’t find it again
and who even knows the source or
how long ago it was, but I do
remember reading a rumor
somewhere online that a lot of
work went into like retouching
her face in this movie.
Which like sounded like
bullshit.
To me, but that one thing, I was
like, huh, I can’t see a zit.
Like maybe maybe it’s true.
Maybe it was just for that one
scene or something.
I don’t know.
But that’s where all the CGI
like.
Energy went was to Drews 1
pimple.
Yeah, there you go.
You can’t see.
The cover of the book she’s
reading at the table in this
very first scene, but I feel
like we got to just talk about
it now.
So Lucy is always reading the
book.
Still Life with Woodpecker by
Tom Robbins, and it was Drew’s
idea to have this be the book
because it’s about how to Make
Love stay.
So she’s like, perfect, she
said.
It.
The book asks.
That question and then goes on a
wild ride, just like the film.
Love is the one uniting,
relatable thing in everyone’s
life.
It’s what we all want and
struggle with and fight for.
And I love the version of that
we are telling here in paradise.
I love those.
Connections.
I know it’s really neat.
She also said that like, not
only is it her favorite book,
but it’s about how do you Make
Love stay and she thought that
was apropos on so many levels.
So it’s so cool.
I also, so I read this book, Oh
my God, 20 years ago now, but
the first time I read it was I
was in Hawaii.
So I don’t know how it worked
out that way.
And then the book started and
it’s in Hawaii.
So I was like oh this is an even
cooler reason for her to have
chosen this but.
And I finally read it last.
Year Like I had the paperback
for a long time and I finally
read it.
It was an odd read.
It’s a very odd book.
I don’t remember much about it,
but.
I feel like I liked it.
It’s very surrealist.
OK, like.
Really.
Weirdly surrealist.
Aren’t there like symbols?
On the Camel cigarette pack,
that like mean things.
That’s like the thing I remember
the most.
There’s somebody who’s like,
trapped.
In an attic at some point.
And like all they have in the
room with them is a cigarette
pack.
And I think they like maybe make
up a story about that.
And then there’s one point where
like they are like living in a
pyramid.
There’s like a hole on the.
Pack Yeah, yeah, like it I.
Don’t like, I don’t even
remember exactly all of the
steps of it, but it’s like a
super weird book, but it’s
really like interesting.
It took me a while to get
through it though, because I was
like, I don’t know, I won’t go
into it too much, but I remember
thinking like as I was reading
through it, I’m like, I’m not
really getting what I’m reading,
but I think I just need to keep
going.
You know what?
That is sometimes like it’s I.
Do yeah, I just.
Finished a book like that and
I’m like, I don’t know what that
whole ending was all about but
OK.
A couple more.
Things I just want to say about
this first, you know, appearance
of our girl.
So she’s making a little
structure out of her waffles and
this is the first of many will
see her do.
And I’m like, oh, this is such a
like manic Pixie girl quirky
little trait to be doing, but
like Casey Roberts, I know.
She does explain.
Like in the comments, I think it
is that it’s like, oh, she’s an
artist, so of course she’s
always going to be creating
something.
But I’m like, it’s a little hard
to buy that she does this every
day in a.
Restaurant.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
But I love that.
She’s eating alone with a book
and a crossword puzzle.
I had already noted that.
That is such a drew thing to do.
Yeah.
And then I listen to the
commentary and she points out,
like, I love to go eat by myself
with my book.
I was like, Yep, I knew it.
So originally.
They had filmed a fantasy scene
of Henry walking over to meet
her for the first time as they
ended up feeling it was
unnecessary and the director
said it hurt to cut a scene that
showed so much of their
chemistry.
He says something like clever
pick up line and then she says
like witty response.
Oh, invitation to sit.
Down.
Yes, exactly.
Back at the cafe for their meat.
Cute.
Yeah, cuz the first one I.
Always forget Henry sees her but
he doesn’t talk to her and then
he goes about and does his thing
and then he decides to come back
cuz he can’t stop thinking about
this pretty girl he saw I had
forgotten that he.
Left and came back too, yeah.
I love the guy who plays Nick.
Yeah, like, he’s like the cook
at the cafe.
His.
The actor’s name is Pomay Brown,
and this was his first movie,
which is cool, but I always love
that he calls Henry peanut
butter cups.
Me too.
He cracks.
Me up.
Me too.
I really like it.
Too simple, yeah?
Totally.
I do love that.
When So when Henry finally
approaches Lucy’s table, a cover
of the song Hold Me Now is
playing in the background and
that song is in The Wedding
Singer.
And it’s like there’s going to
be a a lot of music connections
that we’ll talk about later on.
But I just think like that was a
nice little touch.
It was driving me crazy trying
to figure out what part of the
Wedding Singer it’s in.
I still am not 100% sure, but I
think it’s like after Love
Stinks and he’s in the dumpster
and Julia’s like, well, Glenn
and I set a date so you have to
play our wedding and he’s like
all bummed out and she’s just
like a sad.
I think that’s where the IT is
in The Wedding Singer.
Someone let me know.
I didn’t get a time to check.
I tried and I couldn’t find it,
but just like in the first scene
of The Wedding Singer, they are
so cute together right off the
bat.
Like you just love these people
together.
Their chemistry is so sweet.
Like they’re so darling
together.
They really are.
You can just tell they have so
much.
Love for each other but I was
kind of thinking I and I’ve only
seen blended once and like 1/4
times but same.
I think that’s just like part of
why that movie doesn’t really
work for me because instead of
getting that like first meet
moment where you’re like just
smiling so big cuz you just love
them.
They like hate each other for
the whole beginning of that
movie.
And I think like, that’s part of
why it just doesn’t feel the
same, the same.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like we.
Need to rewatch it and cover it.
I mean, the last time obviously
I saw it it.
Was like on TV and it was the
beginning and I was like this is
not very good like I was.
Pretty bummed about I was at
the.
Premiere, as we’ve talked about,
Yeah.
And I don’t think I’ve watched
it again.
Yeah.
And I don’t really.
Remember it super well, but I
remember thinking like, OK, it’s
not Wedding Singer, it’s not
Yeah, they’re due for another
one like we need to do.
Yeah, we need.
Something to add tons of palette
network.
Yeah.
I love that her saying like the
smell of his fishy hands is the
best smell in the world and it
because it reminds her of her
dad and brother.
Like so that feels so Drew
somehow like, yeah, the best
smell in the world and it’s
something like fishy kind of
grass.
Yeah, I totally agree.
There are some, really.
Sweet lions in this that also
feel like them and, like you
said, like they actually love
each other, you know, So it
feels like some of the things
like, you know, it’s not
romantic love in real life, but
there’s something about the
like, real respect and love and
like, I don’t know, knowing each
other that feels like comes out.
Yeah.
Like.
You laugh.
I like.
You making me laugh?
OK, so you pointed this.
Out and I loved it cuz then I
was.
Like Oh my God, I have something
to add to this.
So there’s another yellow car
and Drew has yellow cars in Mad
Love, Wedding Singer and Never
Been Kissed.
So fun.
And here’s like another.
Thing that I think is even.
More fun.
So in this movie it’s a
Volkswagen thing, which is like
a rare Volkswagen.
So it’s like very recognizable.
And then the two of the other
cars are, well, two of the other
cars are also Volkswagen.
So in Mad Love, of course, it’s
a Volkswagen Beetle, the Herbie
car, and then in Wedding Singer
it’s a Volkswagen Rabbit.
I was like, hey, I love that.
See this.
Is why we have you on the pod
and for the car info for like.
A a little tad of car info.
I will never be the one bringing
the car info.
That’s really cool.
I love that.
Thank you for sharing.
You know, I was like, that’s a
fun little like tit, but I.
Don’t.
I never thought about it and you
just so made me picture them all
anyways.
I guess the Never been Kissed 1
doesn’t have.
To be a Volkswagen because
technically it’s her brother’s
car.
That’s a good point.
She drives.
A Buick LeSabre.
And it’s.
Not yellow.
We get a pretty good.
Look in this scene at the badge
that we have in the Druseum,
that it’s in the scene outside,
it’s hanging on her bag and it’s
like supposed to be like her
work badge.
Yeah, it’s kind of a funny.
Like why did they even?
Bother it’s such a like not
needed prop but it’s always
attached to her bag and now it’s
attached to the druseum.
Exactly.
Although.
Unfortunately, that signature is
not in her handwriting.
Yeah, and also we’ll talk about
this later, but something else
in the movie is not in her
handwriting, and we wish it was.
And of course, this scene ends
with a really cute excitement
over a crush dance.
And they’re, you know, it’s like
that’s like almost like record
scratch.
They turn around, they both
catch each other doing it
because the van that’s blocking
them pulls away.
It’s so cute.
It’s a silly, but it’s.
So cute.
It’s so cute.
Oh yeah.
And he’s like, there was a bee
on.
Me.
Drew plays that part off really
well.
Like I really believe he he
probably improvised that line
because she looks like she’s
genuinely laughing, but like
trying to not be embarrassing.
That’s so true.
Anyway, so that ends there like
first meeting.
Yeah, and they and they make
plans to meet the next.
Morning.
Great, right?
It’s going to go so well.
So we get a little fantasy
scene.
Here Henry is playing golf with
Ola and he gets knocked up by a
golf ball and he has this
fantasy scene where where Drew
is on the beach as this fantasy
girl and she’s saying Motorama
Gus guess wait, wrong movie.
You haven’t won yet if you know.
You know, if you don’t, sorry.
But it.
Definitely reminds me of that
and it cracks me up.
Supposedly, they said this is
where the famous scene from the
movie From Here to Eternity was
filmed, which was done at Hilona
Cove in Hawaii.
Does it look the same to you?
It doesn’t look the same to me.
And the director says in the
commentary that this was in
California, so I don’t know
what’s going on there.
I didn’t get too into it, but it
doesn’t look the same to me.
I mean, this picture that you
put in there, it’s so hard.
To tell like what’s in the
foreground, what’s in the
background.
But they do say it’s in
California.
So I don’t know.
I bet we could do some more
investigating, but I’m not sure.
Yeah, maybe get Lindsay.
On the case, but it would be
It’s cool to think that they
were like.
An homage to that, if nothing
else.
True.
Maybe that’s what it really was.
Yeah, there is a funny blooper
of Drew in this scene where
she’s like walking and she gets
hurt and she’s like, effing
barefoot and rocks.
Like, it’s really cute.
And of course.
We love a tattoo.
Peek around here.
When she pushes Henry down in
this fantasy onto the sand, we
get a little peek at her jade
tattoo on her back.
So love that.
We always love that and like the
further.
Away it is from like anytime she
would have been nude and you’re
seeing a lot of her tattoos, the
more it’s like, Oh my gosh,
they’re still there.
Like of course you’re right
tattoo why?
Why is that so?
True.
I totally understand what you
know what I mean.
Like especially like.
When’s the last?
I mean, she’s has so many on her
arms now.
It’s different.
And yes, I also I I love the
like the the repeating sort of
the fantasy turning into
nightmare for.
Him.
And I just want to eat.
You up?
Yeah.
Tomorrow, and the next day, and
the next day and the next.
Day, OH.
My and the next.
Day and.
The next day, yeah, it’s kind of
funny cuz he’s like.
No, I can’t.
I can’t do this.
I don’t like commitment.
So he goes on a date with
someone else, but all he can
think about is Lucy.
So then he does show up the next
morning for their little date.
Of course.
Supposedly it’s going to be
their date.
OK, so.
We’re back at the.
Cafe for their date the next day
and Adam finds out basically
immediately about Lucy’s
condition because he goes in and
she doesn’t know who he is and
she’s very confused and he’s
immediately like talking about
his fishy hands and like his
walrus she makes this face at
him.
That’s like.
Repulsed and then like I think
she calls him a creep and then
we have a flashback to the
accident.
So in the original script, since
it was in October, it was
actually a pumpkin instead of a
pineapple, and it’s splattered
during the accident upon impact
to symbolize Lucy’s brain.
And they talk about that.
They kept trying to like, make
that happen with a pineapple.
But a pineapple does not explode
the way of, you know, a pumpkin
does.
That’s interesting.
But we learn about.
What happened?
To Lucy that she she and her
father were in an accident.
They crashed into a tree and I
did the cow die?
Was I don’t?
No, the cow is OK.
That’s right.
I do love.
Amy Hill, who plays.
Sue, the cafe like owner, she
does like such a beautiful job
in this part, like telling the
story of what’s going on.
So props to her.
I always crack up at the line.
There’s like certain lines in
this.
I’m like, oh, yeah, I love that
line.
I forgot.
I always used to laugh at that
when.
So she tells this whole story to
Henry and he’s like, this sounds
like something I would tell to
get rid of a psycho girl.
Am I the psycho girl?
I think that’s so funny.
It is a good line.
So now we know what’s going on
with Lucy.
She’s got the short term memory
that wipes clean every night
when she goes to sleep.
So we’re kind of seeing now what
her life is.
So it goes and shows us.
First of all, I just have to say
it’s kind of weird that Lucy and
her brother Doug are both these
adults living with their dad.
Never like explained.
I’ve never really thought about
it but I was like.
Why don’t they both?
Live at home, right?
And at first when I like saw
your note, I was like.
Well, maybe the accident
happened years ago, right?
And he’s trying to protect her.
And I was like, oh, no.
But like, if they continued on
this path, she would.
I mean, I guess they.
‘D talk about it, she would just
get.
Old.
And then what would happen?
But yeah, already, like, I think
they’re supposed to be what
would you guess?
She’s in her 20s, thirties.
Yeah, I mean Drew’s. 20. 8 when
they filmed this right?
Yeah, yeah.
So.
And I think.
Shawn Astin’s a little older
than her, I would guess.
Yeah, it’s kind of funny, but we
get to.
See, like every.
Day, her dad paints his like,
garage white and gives her paint
to just go at it and do a mural.
She is an art teacher and she’s
an artist.
So I always think it’s like so
sad that they like paint over it
every night, but it’s so sweet
that he like, takes a photo of
it, you know?
And then you noted that there’s
an elephant in this painting.
And Drew has said that she chose
elephants as like, a symbol for
her character because of their
memories, like how they’re known
for having a great memory.
See it later in her room, too,
in the movie.
So that’s just like, a couple
times.
Yeah.
It’s.
Neat.
But it’s just like an Easter egg
that like, she was like, this is
a symbol.
Yeah, Drew, so we see that like
I said, this whole.
Sad and sweet thing that the dad
and the brother do for every
day.
They like get rid of the cake
that she made for her dad’s
birthday.
They grab a fresh new pineapple
from the freezer and the
newspaper that they had like
of the accident.
Yeah.
Yeah, the day of the accident
and then the.
Song Another Day by Paul
McCartney is playing over it
all.
And that song was Drew’s
suggestion.
She brought it in on a tape to a
story meeting.
And she said that kind of became
her mantra because it’s I think
it’s like about somebody who’s
just like bored with life and
but you can still find like some
joy in it.
So I do really like this song.
I mistakenly thought it.
Was The Beatles.
I mean, it just happens a lot
with Paul.
But I do really like this song,
and if we didn’t put it in this
episode right here, it’s because
Beatles songs get flagged and it
bothers.
Us so true, I’m sure, Paul.
Is just as stingy with his
lights and saying no I’m just
kidding.
But anyway, it’s a really sweet
song.
So that’s what’s going.
On with her life.
Every day, her dad and her
brother reset it so that she
doesn’t know that she is
reliving the same day.
Like, she doesn’t know the
difference.
And is that sustainable?
Probably not.
So we’ll see what kind of needs
to happen here.
Yeah.
So even knowing about Lucy’s
condition, Henry is still just,
like, besotted with her.
He still wants to get to know
her.
So he’s trying to come up with,
like, all these ways to meet her
every day.
And like, I could not believe
that I forgot.
No doubts underneath it all is,
like, under this entire montage.
And that, no Doubt is my
favorite band.
So I was like, oh, I got really
excited when.
Yeah.
And that was one of those.
It’s like one of the things that
feels like a little reggae.
Yes.
One of many, yeah.
Right.
It fits the vibe I.
Like when one of the times that
he like tries to get her
attention and meet her again, he
had earlier done the like
toothpick and the make a door
hinge on her Waffle House thing
and touched her thing.
When he does it the second time,
Lucy’s like, are you from a
country where it’s OK to touch
other people’s food?
I love that it’s like.
You don’t know what her mood.
Is like she might think it’s the
same day but doesn’t mean she’s
feeling the same way.
Right?
Exactly.
I thought it was fun.
Doesn’t Nick even say like she
doesn’t want to?
Be hit on during her breakfast.
This isn’t a disco or something
like that.
Yeah.
And she like another time to
get.
Rid of him.
She’s just talks in Chinese and
like pretends she doesn’t speak
English.
I was really hoping she would
have mentioned something about
that in the commentary and she
doesn’t.
But I’m like, so curious what
she’s saying because I know that
she had learned a couple phrases
from the master, the stunt
coordinator on Charlie’s Angels.
So I was like, so curious if it
was one of those things that she
learned, Yeah, that’s I bet it.
Was, I mean, yeah, probably.
If nothing else, she had the
confidence to, like do that
because of that, Yeah.
And eventually.
Henry does this like really fake
thing where he’s pretending he
doesn’t know how to read and
he’s crying over the menu and
the teacher in her can’t help
but come over even though she
knows he’s full of shit and
they’re like have a whole flirty
thing but then he gets like
scared of the commitment again
and he doesn’t ask her out.
She’s not happy.
Really.
That’s it.
That’s what all that.
Flirting and.
Phony.
I can’t read stuff.
And then you’re not even going
to ask me out for my phone
number?
I can’t read.
Oh, shut up.
No, no, no, no.
This is what?
Happened I it’s.
Mahalo for the ego boost you’re.
Right.
So at this point.
Lucy’s dad and brother tell
Henry to like, stay away, and
Henry plans to like be really
sneaky and find ways to like see
her and meet her.
So technically he’s not going to
the cafe, right?
So.
Let me get a whole.
Montage Another montage There’s
lots of montages in this movie.
OK, so a montage of.
Sneaky ways he’s trying to get
her attention.
Meet her and I love that you
noted this.
So they show her driving, which
is always so fun, but it has
this like mad love feel to it
and I think there’s a couple
reasons it’s probably like like
coastal driving.
I feel like maybe shown in mad
love, maybe maybe not either
way, but then it’s like an open
top car like her one in mad
love.
I guess it’s yeah O’donnell’s
character’s name, Matt.
Matt yeah, that.
And I.
Think there’s something about
seeing her profile, There’s a
part in Mad Love where she’s
driving her Volkswagen and it’s
like her profile.
I don’t know, it just
immediately made me think of
that.
And I was like, I love that Her
Volkswagen in this and her
Volkswagen in that.
Yeah, OK.
So.
One of.
One of the.
Ways that he tries to meet her
is he pretends his battery’s
dead or maybe he kills it I
don’t know is it actually dead
and then he tries to like trick
her that he’s getting
electrocuted and then she in
turn tricks him that her like
grandfather died trying to start
a car it’s so good my.
Grandfather died.
Trying to jump start a car.
Oh.
I’m sorry, I I was just joking
around.
I can’t believe you fell for
that.
And then?
There is a moment where.
He pretends there’s a road
closure and I like that.
They talked in the commentary.
This was fully ad libbed and
Drew, like, specifically talks
about the look that she gives
Henry in that scene.
And she said it’s like, like
that character, just almost like
she didn’t say this, but like,
found her soul mate.
Like out of all the people in
the world, she found someone who
also does this, that funny
little thing that she does
because she gives him such a
cute look.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
She’s like, you do.
Yeah, exactly.
And the director said.
He like.
The director said he couldn’t
hear them when they were filming
it, so it was just them.
Like, I know I was like, that’s
really cute.
It’s.
Really fun.
Yeah.
We also get.
A little.
Quick part where he sacrifices
his little Penguin and puts him
in the middle of the road and
hoping that she’s going to stop
but instead she dropped ACD and
I just love the nostalgia over
like pulling out ACD book in
your car guys.
If you don’t know what that was
like you’re young.
Also like dropping.
ACD that’s real.
Yeah, like and leaning over
because, you know, why not?
I’m so glad Willie the Penguin
was OK.
Oh, very much so, yes.
His.
Next little move.
Is he has ula pretend to attack
him on the side of the road so
that she stops?
Yeah.
And this was always used in the
trailers.
I feel like this is, like, such
a moment.
Everyone remembers.
And she’s so funny.
Like, yeah, she is.
Take that and that.
She looks like she’s really
wailing on him, Yeah.
Well, in a.
Featurette Rob is like in
character as Ola and he says
that she thinks he thinks she
was having a Charlie’s Angels
flashback and whacking him too
hard and he says hey look Drew
I’m not Lucy Liu like she would
be hitting Lucy.
Liu.
I know, but it’s still funny,
Elsa.
This is another scene that there
were like a bunch.
Of ad libs and apparently, and
one of them was that drew like
brought in like I’m in the
community watch program, which I
think is so funny.
I was like, that’s like a great
that I was like, that’s
memorable.
Good job, Drew.
You did good.
Hi.
Sorry, I’m in a community.
Watch program and yeah, he’s.
He’s gone now.
I would imagine.
With this group.
Of guys like she kind of had to
bring her a game of improv,
which she doesn’t normally maybe
do as much.
Even this little featurette
that’s on the DVD where Rob is
Ola and interviewing her and
Adam as themselves.
Adam and Rob are like riffing
and Drew just has to go along
with it and like come up with
responses on the fly.
Very yes.
And, you know, it’s pretty cool,
I guess, like you do, that
people are like.
That type of comedian.
And like, yeah, I don’t know.
And then one of the last little
sneaky things he does is he
pretends he’s been kidnapped and
he’s, like, tied up on the back
of his truck.
And oopsie, guess who drives by
first is Lucy’s dad and her
brother Doug.
And they’re like, what are you
doing, bud?
Like, what the Hell’s going on?
And then they tell, they tell
Henry that Lucy sings, only
sings on the days that she meets
him.
It’s really cool.
It is really cool and then they
show.
Her in the garage painting, and
it’s the first time we see her
singing.
Is it?
Wouldn’t it be nice?
Yeah.
By The Beach Boys.
So yeah, we’re.
Kind of learning you.
Know Lucy doesn’t remember
meeting Henry or anything like
that, but she’s a little happier
even though she’s still reliving
the same day she’s a little
happier on the days that they’ve
like met and flirted or whatever
they’re doing right so they’ve
noticed and they’re like.
OK, we can try something, Henry.
And then we have a bad day.
At all.
So this part’s so hard.
OK, sorry.
Go ahead.
So.
Henry sees.
Lucy at the.
Cafe.
I don’t really remember the
exchange, but she says she has a
boyfriend and she says his
name’s Ringo.
Is his last name Starr
McCartney?
It’s so silly.
I like.
It she’s not in the mood to.
Talk to him this day.
Right, So.
At the cafe, like, right, kind
of right after that moment, Lucy
realizes she’s getting a ticket
on her car outside.
So she’s getting like a parking
ticket.
And this is when like kind of
everything blows up.
She like figures out that it’s
not the day she thought it was,
that she’s a newspaper that her
like, you know, family has been
handing her every day.
Like it’s a it’s more than a
year later, but I like the scene
where the cop is.
Like telling her her plates are
expired and like I like how Drew
like is really angry about it.
She’s like, this is ridiculous.
The tags don’t expire for seven.
Months expired May of this year,
no.
No, no, they expire.
May of.
Next year, Officer, I think
there’s been a misunderstanding.
I don’t this is ridiculous.
I’m.
Not paying for this.
It’s October.
Excuse me, can I borrow this
look?
October, Lucy, Let’s go back
inside.
What?
I guess she gets in her car and
drives home because.
She’s like Hawking on the horn.
And that’s when the.
Dad’s like we’re having a bad
day.
That’s right.
That’s right.
Bad day, Doug.
Or whatever he says.
Yeah.
There’s a scene that was cut
where Lucy’s, like, flipping out
in the garage and, like,
throwing her paint cans on the
wall, and then she runs out to
the pier.
And then.
Yeah.
And then I saw this pier in
person.
I was in Hawaii a few years ago.
I don’t even know how long ago
it was.
Now it’s called.
Called Waikoni Pier and I almost
forgot about it.
As soon as I saw it, I was like,
Anne was there.
I now remember the.
Journey there that it was like.
Way up on the North Shore, like
almost like as far up as you
could go on the road.
Wow.
In the North Shore, Like it was.
I remember his way up there
because.
Did you go just to see it?
Yeah.
That’s awesome.
Yeah.
OK, so.
This is just.
It’s so sad.
Like she’s realizing the truth.
The dad is showing her, like
what they do every day.
This is the reality.
Like they show her a photo of
her in the hospital and the
article about the accident.
And I’m always I was.
I literally wrote don’t make me
cry, Drew.
Yeah.
It’s so sad.
It is.
Really sad.
Drew talked about how much range
that she was able to perform on
this day and she said she was
like clinging to the director,
like making sure you got the
tone right.
She says it was a really hard
day And and the director says
like he knew that she had to
like really had a job to do that
day and people really, really
like on point and like giving
her the space that she needed
and all this stuff.
But that’s so cool.
And he I mean, he’s just like
commending her incredible
performance.
I mean, like I said, she’s
making me cry.
So it.
Worked.
Yeah, I mean it.
It’s.
It’s in a comedy to.
Have something where suddenly.
You have to reveal this like
like.
Really traumatic thing that’s
happened to somebody.
And then she has to like, act
like she’s learning.
That for the first.
I don’t know, it’s a lot.
It is.
She does great.
So then.
They like she’s like I need to
meet.
This doctor, her dad says she’s
done it before, but they go to
meet the doctor that, you know,
worked on her brain basically
after the accident.
I’ll say a couple of things
about it before we kind of get
into the scene.
So the institutes called the
Callahan Institute, and it’s
named after the company Callahan
Auto and Tommy Boy, which is the
same director.
I thought that was a fun little
thing.
That is fun, especially Drew
went to that premiere.
And you love that outfit like
that.
Full circle.
Always, always.
Coming back to the Drew.
Circle yeah and then another
little tidbit is that the
doctors played by Dan Aykroyd he
had been in two other of the
directors previous movies but
also he’s like major SNL yeah
alum so huge for Drew.
I think she like says like icon
or whatever she says in the
commentary like that makes sense
and it’s great like he’s.
Great in it.
He’s like.
Only in a few scenes and he’s
great.
Perfect.
Perfectly.
Dan Aykroyd.
Totally.
Oh yeah, and you love.
My girl, right?
Yeah, that’s cool for you.
I like that.
I’ve always.
Thought she looks.
Especially pretty in this scene,
it might be because it’s the
first time her little clipped
back hair is just like down.
I don’t know if that’s it or if
her makeup is slightly
different, but she just looks
beautiful in that scene.
She really does it.
It’s very.
Funny, we have like one of the.
Adam Sandler, dudes, I don’t
even have his name written down,
but you’ll guys know who he is
at one of the security guards at
the Callahan Institute is the
guy from the beginning of The
Wedding Singer who gives out
alcohol to the kid at the
wedding.
So that’s like a fun little, you
know, through line.
And then we also get Alan
Covert, who is Sammy, the limo
driver in The Wedding Singer.
And then this movie has a very
small part.
He is 10 second Tom.
A guy whose memory resets every
And this is where my favorite.
Delivery of Marlin because he’s
meeting Tom for the second time
within 20 seconds.
Marlin.
Hi, I’m Tom.
Hi, I’m Lucy.
Hi.
Doug, hey.
Marlin.
But you know it’s.
Kind of interesting Lucy comes
away from this, you know, kind
of making peace with it.
She’s upset about it, but she is
interested about this guy,
Henry, who she doesn’t really
know, but he’s clearly there for
her.
And she’s, like, says to him at
the end of the night, like, I
don’t want you to strike out
tomorrow.
Yeah.
So bring me some lilies.
They’re my favorite flower.
And I thought like, oh, I was
hoping it would be Daisies.
That’s interesting that she
picked Lily’s something
different.
Well, I thought maybe it feels
like more.
Hawaiian or something, maybe.
I don’t know what it is.
OK, so now we get into this
whole new thing, this whole new
era of the movie, basically when
they’re trying something new.
Yeah, it’s so cool.
So Henry gets the idea.
Like he’s like points out, you
know, not only is she learning
about this horrible thing that
happened to her, but she’s also
learning that you guys are lying
to her every day.
Like she has to deal with that
too.
So he’s like, can I just try one
time?
Like if it doesn’t work out, you
know, it’s OK.
She’s not going to remember.
And so he makes her this video,
this Good morning Lucy videotape
and delivers it to her with
daisies.
And she goes and puts it in and
it catches her up on everything,
that it’s like a bunch of silly,
like pop culture references.
And then like, here’s what why
you don’t remember them and tell
us about the accident.
And then Henry is talking to the
camera directly.
And it’s very sweet.
I think it’s really funny that
there’s like a little Red Sox
World Series joke, like the Red
Sox won the World Series.
Ha, ha, just kidding.
That would never happen.
And it’s like, oh, it comes out
in 2004.
And then she goes and films
Fever Pitch and they do win the
World Series that day and that
year.
It’s so funny.
It is really funny because it’s
like.
Did they make it happen?
I know and also I noticed in
the.
Credits it mentions like that
that was a like a specifically
put in there as a jab against
like 4 of the guys who worked on
the movie.
It’s so funny.
So also in this video.
We have Ola kind of playing
Lucy, so he’s like wearing a
pink.
Shirt and has.
Coconuts for boobs and a mop on
his head for hair, and I love
that this has become such a
popular Halloween costume.
So as Lucy, like if you just
Google Ula 50 First dates costume,
you’ll see a ton of what I’m
talking about.
It is different, right, right.
It is really funny that that.
End up being a costume.
I’m Speaking of costumes.
What did you do last year?
Yeah, so last Halloween.
So the previous year my husband
and I had done The Wedding
Singer and I was like, oh, it’d
be so cute to do 5o First Dates is
like a little follow up.
You’re going to do blend the
next, right?
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Everyone will recognize that.
So we were Lucy and Henry, and
then our daughter was a
pineapple.
So it was really sweet.
I really would have liked my
older daughter to participate,
but like, what’s she going to be
Henry’s assistant?
She’s going to be a green.
She loves cows, doesn’t she?
That would have been perfect.
Missed opportunity where?
Were you last year when we were
planning this?
Dang it.
Yes, the video is incredibly
sweet.
Her face the entire time is also
really sweet.
And I love the fact that Drew
Drew was reacting to nothing on
the day as Lucy.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Like the?
The director was just.
Describing to her what she was
supposedly seeing in the video
and she was reacting to it.
So like they knew what the
contents were going to be to
some extent, but she had
nothing.
She was looking at a blank
screen.
I was like, that is that’s
really cool.
Makes it like that much more
amazing.
I mean they’re.
Like, yeah, that’s like master
class.
That’s so cool.
Yeah.
Good job, Drew.
Yeah, totally.
And.
Then we have them going on like
actual like love dates.
Yeah, now that every morning she
knows.
What’s going on?
She doesn’t want to relive the
same day.
So now they get to have a
relationship in a totally
different way.
Yeah, so we got.
This really beautiful scene
where drew an Adam of being shot
in like the golden sun like
looking and the scene is like
towards a tree.
It’s like silhouetted and
glowing.
It’s so beautiful.
Really.
Yeah.
It’s so pretty.
And they’re like noticing that
the bark was healing and it’s
the tree that she hit with her
car.
I think I had never realized
that before.
They like noticed the lion not
till this time.
So I love.
That you noted that.
And apparently Drew and Nancy
had to fight for this scene to
stay.
I’m very curious why.
I don’t know if they like super
explain talk about it a little
bit I think.
It would they just kind of
thought like, oh, we can cut
that.
But Drew and Nancy were like,
no, this is like the transition
moment like this is like really
important to the love story.
So good job guys.
I’m glad flower won that.
I’ll say one more thing about
like the the.
Like scene.
I think they said that the
director of photography is from
like he’s like a famous director
of photography.
I’m blanking on what films they
said he did.
Unforgiven was the 1 I think.
Maybe he got an Oscar for that
one.
They mentioned that one a couple
times, but like this I feel like
they’re maybe talking.
About it even in the commentary
during this or something, maybe
not but this is what I picture
I’m like oh there is this like
beautiful like this is like
cinematically beautiful.
Totally.
Yeah, they also talk about.
Just one more thing.
About like the the scene and the
lighting because it’s so
gorgeous.
In the commentary, they say it
was like really difficult to
capture this light and they were
like running around to make it
happen.
It was like, because it’s like,
it’s just disappearing.
It’s like literally.
The sun is like on the horizon
dropping.
That’s the sunset for you.
That’s part of why I love.
Them, it’s like you gotta run
out and see it right now because
it’s going to change in
fleeting.
It’s ephemeral.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
I always this is.
One of the.
Dresses that I still have it to
this day, the blue like Navy
blue dress with the white polka
dots.
And this is the one that she’s
wearing in the poster.
So that’s pretty cool, right?
And it’s it is super cute.
Yeah.
So they just have like all this
cute little flirting moments in
the scene.
And I don’t even remember what
he says to her, but she does.
A little cat hiss back at him.
And I was like.
It’s like.
Yeah, it’s just like in Babes in
Toyland.
How we noticed she does it in
that I love that she’s so
consistent Yeah, exactly their.
Next.
Little date is.
They’re at a party on the beach
with all her friends.
Like she hasn’t seen her friends
since the accident.
It’s just crazy.
This one was filmed in Malibu
and we have paparazzi pictures
of this being filmed.
It was like a really big deal
when those came out.
I remember we get Maya Rudolph,
which is really fun.
And I was like, oh, apparently
she’s also duplex.
Don’t remember that.
No memory.
No memory of that.
She’s Drew’s like.
Work friend in the movie.
So totally forgot about that.
That’s really neat that they’ve
done that twice now.
Yeah.
And on the Drew Barrymore Show
in 2024, Maya said, like she was
so excited to get to go to
Hawaii and work with Drew and
Adam, and then they ended up
just doing it in Malibu.
She just.
Had to like.
Drive down the street and I
don’t know if she’s.
LA based.
I feel like she is and.
Unfortunately.
We didn’t even mention it with
Henry’s assistant, but Lexi,
yeah, we get like these
transphobic kind of jokes.
And we had these in The Wedding
Singer too.
Don’t love them.
Haven’t aged well.
And there’s like a whole thing
with a character with that which
I just want to like acknowledge
it, that we both are like, I
think it’s important to
acknowledge it, but it.
Also feels like that’s a little
bit like, maybe not now, but
like Adam Sandler’s humor, Like,
that’s obviously like their
side.
Yeah.
So this is OK, yes.
This is like at the.
End of, like, the party day or
it’s the evening at the beach,
and Lucy starts to record Henry
with a camcorder, like, kind of
saying she wants to like,
through her own eyes, sort of
like, tell herself the story,
what’s going on with her.
Like, so cool.
Yeah.
And in which she.
Asks, Do you love me?
What do you?
Want to know?
Do you love me?
I didn’t mean to put you on the
spot.
Or anything I.
Was just asking more for
informational purposes as to
keep the video up to date as
possible.
Sure.
Love is a very loaded.
Word.
I see I I go to this.
Restaurant Every.
Morning and I see you there
reading and.
I love you very much.
Probably more than.
Anybody could love another.
Person.
And it’s, it’s really sweet.
It’s.
Beautiful.
It is really sweet.
Drew said in the commentary,
too, that that the scene, like,
really captures the way, like,
the world falls away when you’re
falling in love, which I think
is so sweet because they, like,
isolate themselves.
And then it’s sort of like
they’re alone in this, like
framed by this, like, cave.
I don’t know.
It’s really cool.
Yeah, since you mentioned.
The Cave it is the Leo Carrillo
cave in Malibu.
Cool if you guys wanted to know
that it’s really hard to see in
this shop because it’s dark, but
this is the first of a couple
times where we mentioned the
eyeliner.
We have this eyeliner that we
love that Drew used to be like
part owner with Jillian Fink
Dempsey’s line Deluxe, which
doesn’t exist anymore.
But there was this eyeliner
called Chimpy Blue that we
loved.
And it turns out that Jillian’s
current line also still has
literally even named Chimpy Blue
eyeliner.
Joalena found it for me on
Poshmark, like a brand new one
that was like super inexpensive.
And so I bought it and then a
couple days later the person’s
like, I just moved and I can’t
find it anywhere.
And here’s your money back.
So I still need to get my Chimpy
Blue.
But even if it’s not that exact
one, it’s definitely like very
inspired by it, definitely akin
to Chimpy Blue.
If it is not chimpy blue, that’s
a very specific look that we
loved, so I love that you
pointed it out and of course
this.
Begins the like.
Reoccurring thing of Lucy saying
nothing beats the first kiss.
So sweet right?
And it like happens every time.
They show these like it’s a date
montage basically.
So we, so we go now to the
lighthouse that I saw in Hawaii,
the Makapu lighthouse, really
sweet little scene.
She says nothing beats the first
kiss.
There is a pineapple field.
And in the commentary, they say,
like, similarly to the tree
thing, it was like fleeting
light ’cause they’re like, also
like silhouetted on the hill.
And they said like, Adam and
Drew had to like, run up to get
it.
So sweet.
But again, a kiss.
And then then we go to the
aquarium where he works.
Yeah.
So I’m.
Pretty positive.
This is the shirt that I own.
I have a shirt like all of the
costumes from this movie were
sold by Sony, so I bought this
one.
It looks very brown in the movie
and it looks green in person.
But we know that lighting can be
really tricky.
But I swear to God, when I first
got it, it had that indoor water
smell that, you know, like, you
smell it like Pirates of the
Caribbean.
Interesting.
And so I’m like extra convinced
it was not the aquarium that is
the scene.
Do you remember how?
Long after the.
Movie came out, they sold the
costumes like when you bought
it, it was immediately like.
Very soon after the movie came
out and, and luckily we have a
lot of the auction pictures in
our files.
So fun to see all the things
that they sold.
Yeah, yeah, totally so.
They’re like making.
Out a little bit and I love that
Lucy says this to him as he’s
like a feeling her up.
Doing nothing I was.
Just getting some lint.
Off for you.
You’re going for a field ski.
All right.
It is really cute cuz.
Like, once again, you’re
reminded it’s all new to her.
Yeah, I know.
When you really think about it
like.
Sometimes you’re like, oh, is
that uncomfortable for her?
But like, there is something she
senses about this guy that’s
familiar to her, you know?
Right.
I mean, I I know I started
thinking about it more.
Like, oh, you have to convince
yourself, but you’re already in
love.
Yeah, it’s wild.
I know.
And then we get.
To meet the walrus Jocko.
Who’s so cute?
He’s like, he’s a character in
the movie.
Yeah, he’s so cute.
The beginning part where he
does.
That little like, dance with
Adam.
Oh my gosh, adorable.
Drew said.
She loved him so much.
Get ready for this druism.
She practically strapped on a
saddle and started riding him.
That’s an image.
It totally is.
And of course.
She said that and like.
They she decides to take.
It to the next level with him
and they go into his little
aquarium room that like he has a
window in the actual tank and
like Ola is in there swimming
and like making little, you
know, sexual gestures.
I’m like, this is such a like
Sandler movie thing.
Yes.
And, and I love that Lucy’s just
laying.
There looking like oblivious,
yeah.
OK, then we got like.
This incredibly sweet song.
So Adam Sandler writes a song
for the character just like he
did in The Wedding Singer.
So it’s called Forgetful Lucy.
And just like with the wedding,
singers grow old with you.
Drew hears it for the first time
while they’re filming and
insisted on it.
Yeah.
So her reactions are genuine for
the first time.
It’s so smart, so cool and so
sweet.
Yeah, that.
Was the place we like each other
right away.
Like you didn’t Remember Me in
the very next stage.
Forget it’s got a nice couple.
See.
It’s definitely like more.
Comical than grow old with you.
Like, it has sweet moments, but
it also has, like, really goofy
for the laugh moments.
Yeah.
So it’s not, I don’t love it as
much, but it’s still precious.
And there’s like, dolphins
jumping behind them.
It’s a it’s a very romantic
moment.
It is.
So there is a little deleted
scene here where after they, you
know, get a little busy at the
aquarium and he sings her the
song.
Henry takes her home and Marlon
is waiting up for her.
Like, you know, she’s like 20-8
but OK.
And Henry let’s Marlon and Doug
take his boat out for the night
to go fishing in the night.
I guess that’s the thing you do.
And so then when Lucy, like,
finds out that they’re alone,
she invites him upstairs in a
very, like, flirtatious way.
But it ended up feeling
redundant since they literally
had just quote, UN quote,
consummated the relationship,
like earlier that evening.
So they just took it out.
But Drew looks really pretty
standing on the, like, the
little balcony next to her room.
Yeah, she does look really
pretty somehow that.
Like that robe and the like.
I don’t know what it is is why
does she look so incredibly
pretty?
She just does.
They said it was like the.
Scenes of her.
On the balcony were like a
reshoot because they didn’t have
the upstairs of the house when
they were doing the original
filming.
And I was like, that’s so
interesting.
I started to like try to, I
didn’t like go back and look and
see if like her hair looks
really different.
But it might be worth looking.
That’s funny, if you can tell
back into the actual finished
film we.
Get a scene of them about to
fall asleep together in Lucy’s
bed.
And it’s really sweet.
Like he’s trying to keep her
from falling asleep because her
memory is going to reset.
She’s like, I promise I won’t
forget you.
And he asks her to marry him.
And she says, of course.
And it’s like, oh, how sweet.
But you know, her memory resets,
yes, so I do.
Kind of like.
That we get.
Like verbal consent from her at
some point that she, yes, she
would want to marry, but sort of
standing a little, like a
little.
Better.
I guess like she has had this
is.
Like, is this supposed to be,
like, pretty soon after, like
the video?
I guess we don’t really know how
much time has passed.
We don’t.
But still.
Like, I think, I mean, obviously
things are fresh for every day,
but I was also going to say
like, still, like, relatively
new.
Yeah, So we get to the morning
after.
So they have literally fallen
asleep together in the same bed.
This is like, you know,
unprecedented in this moment.
And this is like a big trailer
moment as well because Drew,
like, she opens her eyes and
immediately screams in his face.
I mean, of course it’s done
comedically because it’s comedy,
but she’s freaked out.
There’s this basically a
stranger in her bed.
Terrifying.
Yeah.
And then?
We get elephants.
On her bedroom walls.
So that theme of like, you know,
the good memory of the elephants
is, like, shown again in her
bedroom.
And at this moment, I think
it’s, I think she’s just like
overhearing something.
Yeah.
Lucy learns about Henry’s dream
of taking a boat to Alaska.
So she’s learning like this is.
I think he says something like I
have to stay here with Lucy.
She’s making.
Yeah, progress.
Yeah, I know.
And the.
Doctor’s like she’s not making
progress.
Like that’s not a thing.
She’s never going to remember
you.
Like, please don’t believe that.
And it’s important that that’s
stated.
But he still wants to stay.
And, you know, now she’s
starting to feel a little bit
guilty, I think.
Yeah, totally.
So Lucy visits.
Henry at his.
Work and she’s coming to break
up with him.
It’s kind of cool.
They hosted like a dozen
children from the Make a Wish
Foundation on the set this day.
So we have a couple photos of
Drew talking to them.
There’s even like video footage
that somebody put on YouTube.
I made an entire YouTube
playlist of 50 First Dates content,
so I’ll link to that on the
episode page because there’s all
kinds of fun stuff out there.
Awesome.
But back to the movie.
So Lucy brings her journal to
like show Henry that she’s
actually been writing to herself
every night as well, which is
really cool.
But I’m so bummed that it’s not
in Drew’s actual handwriting
because usually she will write
things for real for her
characters.
And I don’t know if it was just
like too big of a project.
I was just going to say.
And they’re like, think of how
many?
Things that she was.
Like cramming in back-to-back,
like as far as movie she was
filming.
So they’re like, at this time.
Good point.
Like, we can’t have her, like,
help with the props this time,
sadly.
But I know we always are, like,
craving for, like, things to be
in her handwriting.
Totally.
Yeah.
And there’s really beautiful
close-ups of her in this scene.
And again, you can sort of see
that blue eyeliner we were
talking about on her lower lids.
She’s gorgeous.
And I think you’re totally right
that it’s.
Like, I don’t know, it feels
like like Chimpy has such a
specific like, yeah, brightness
shade.
Yeah, that like, I don’t know.
How do we find out for sure?
I guess there’s probably no way
when we when we ever get Jillian
on the.
Podcast.
Yeah, that’s true.
OK, so then we get this scene
that that they kind of say in
the commentary, it was hard to
like, execute.
So Drew’s got this journal and
they’re trying to kind of show
that she’s like removing him
from the journal while rewriting
the parts that she, like, needs
to remember.
Yeah, cuz she wants him to go
live his dream.
Yeah.
It’s really sweet.
And I’m like, they keep like
seeing little, like whatever
things that I don’t know what I
was going to say.
I was going to say something
about like one specific scene.
Yeah.
There’s things she wrote about
him and.
They’re like, oh, he makes a
funny sound if I kiss him here,
do it often or something like
that.
Oh, OK, I’m glad you said that
because that’s the thing, I was.
Thinking of, but I was like, she
says like I’m going to miss
that.
And when she says that, I’m
like, does she mean because
today she did it?
Or she just imagines she would
miss that.
Right.
I was like, it’s a cute.
Line.
It’s a cute exchange, but when
she.
Says that it takes me out of it
just to let that it’s pretty
funny.
And then we get.
This scene in the pouring rain
where Lucy asks Henry, could I
have one last?
First kiss and of course, her
white shirt.
Ends up completely wet, because
of course it does.
And I think that’s funny because
I’ve always noticed that.
I know.
I feel like I remember you like.
Mentioning it, I think of you.
And I think of that scene
that’s.
Fine.
Well, I mean, rain also is my
thing.
The director says in the
commentary that they had to blur
out her nipples for the airline
cut because apparently, like,
that’s something that you can’t,
like, show on an airplane.
Oh my God.
And then Drew says the twins.
It like, really makes him laugh.
So that I love that it’s like a
dress and that they like make a
joke out of it.
It’s really, Oh my gosh, that’s
great.
So then we just get like, I
called it the sad montage.
So Henry, he’s broke, been
broken up with, so he’s going to
go off on his Alaska trip.
But before that, like he’s
preparing and there’s just all
these sad moments that they
show.
Lots of montages.
Like we said, I think it’s
really cute that he’s at work
and a reflection of light goes
on his face, just, like at the
beginning, a reflection off of
her knife at the cafe caught his
attention.
And this time it’s her with,
like, people, I think, from the
Callahan Institute.
And she’s holding a clipboard.
And like, that light shines on
his face and he kind of, like,
gets excited.
She looks at him and she just,
like, gives him a little smile,
like, oh, you’re cute and walks
on.
And then he’s like, Oh yeah.
And I always left her little
cloud shirt here.
It feels very different for the
character, but I’m like, oh,
that’s always fun.
I always liked it.
I like clouds.
It is really cute.
I would wear that.
And then, like I said, Henry.
Is going to leave and Marlin
gives him ACD and again, I’m
like, oh, I just love how CDs
and videotapes are totally so
prevalent in this movie.
It’s like the end of that era.
I know like which is they’re
still there and it almost feels
too late for them, but like
they’re going to be gone soon.
I mean it’s I’m just going to
say it again.
It’s 20.
Two years ago and they were like
surprised that that was in
there.
So weird we’re of the physical
media era like we it’s hard for
us to not think that way.
I still have my C DS.
I don’t listen to them but I
have them.
Same.
OK, so the CD.
That they give him is a Beach
Boys CD and he immediately is
like, of course they give me
something that will remind me of
her.
And then they they cut to like
him playing it and then like
singing and crying along to The
Beach Boys song that she sings.
Wouldn’t it be nice?
And Drew says she’s like, I love
this scene so much.
She’s like really my favorite
scenes of the.
Movie like she.
Says it cracks her up so much.
It it is really goofy.
It’s so goofy.
That’s funny, yeah.
She like, says she loves it.
I mean it’s.
Like one of those things that
like it’s again, crossing that
line of like, it’s really sad.
But of course we’re like they
have to remind you that it’s a
comedy.
Yeah, that’s true.
I always.
Get like a little confused at
this part is like why he thinks
that this means she remembers
him right?
Like doesn’t have it doesn’t
work for me.
Yeah.
And well, she’s like they’re
trying to tell me.
Something.
Yeah.
He’s looking for any reason to
come.
Back you’re.
Right, OK, right.
I like it when you think of it.
That way he’s like, I really
don’t want to go right so.
Like he.
Rushes to the Callahan
Institute.
He knows that she’s there.
She’s like, moved to the
institute, I think, right?
She’s like working there, right?
Teaching art, I guess.
Yeah.
She walks by one of her art
students and she says, Julia,
that looks great.
And I’m like, OK, that it has to
be intentional.
It has to be.
It has to be.
Yeah.
So Henry comes up to her and
he’s like, do you have any idea
who I am?
And she’s just kind of looking
at him interestingly, but she
says, no, but I, I’d like to
show you something.
And so she takes him into like a
backroom that we’re all her
artwork is and studio.
Yeah, it’s all renderings of
him.
I don’t know who you are, Henry.
But I dream about you, almost.
Every night.
What would you say?
If I told you that.
Notebook you read every day used
to have a lot of stuff about me
and.
I would say that that makes a
lot of sense.
Oh, it’s so precious.
Like it’s so sweet and they say
in the.
Commentary that they didn’t want
the the paintings to be too
funny.
Oh, and they said they wanted
like.
The egg to.
Get the laugh.
So like everything else, they
show the all the other paintings
and then they go to the egg and
that’s what’s supposed to be
like, Oh, finally that’s funny.
But you kind of look and it’s
like they’re actually like
really awesome renditions.
Like there’s I know and I love.
This Nancy Juvonen owns one of
these, and you can see it in a
listing for her and Jimmy
Fallon’s Penthouse.
So I’ll share that picture on
the episode page because it’s
really neat to see.
That is so fun.
Yes, and when when Lucy says to
Henry, Henry, nice to meet you,
it reminded me that she’s also
with a Henry.
And ever after, I don’t think
I’ve ever made that connection.
I just suddenly did towards the
end of the movie on.
This last watch, never before so
and like, no offense to Henry’s,
but it’s not really a.
Name that like makes me think of
a hot guy.
So hey, it was my grandpa’s
name.
I’m sorry.
Yeah.
Are you just pretending that
your grandpa?
And he died from jump starting a
car.
I mean I’m just pretending.
Gotcha.
Now what does she say?
Can’t.
I can’t believe you felt it.
Yeah.
OK, so then we we get to our
ending in Alaska.
So this is kind of like a
whirlwind wrapping up basically
what happened to them.
But it’s it’s neat the way they
did it.
Yeah, so Drew and.
Nancy.
Felt very strongly that the
ending needed to be what it is
rather than quote UN quote what
it could have been like if they
had like sold out and said Lucy
was like cured, which is
something I guess the studio
wanted.
Like that would be a terrible
idea.
Yeah.
I’m not surprised though.
I think the.
Way of like, oh, I dream about
you is a really good compromise.
Yeah, me too.
I don’t remember you.
But like.
You’re in my mind somewhere, so
you made an impact even though
my mind.
Is broken like that feels
magical.
It’s like magical thinking on
its own, but also like she’s not
healed totally.
It’s an ongoing process.
That’s why Drew’s like, how do
you Make Love, say is such a
good thing for this?
Yeah.
So Drew said the original ending
in the original script was her
saying you should go and live
your life because there’s no
life here.
And he goes away as he does.
And he comes back and he walks
into the restaurant and he just
sits down and says, hi, I’m
Henry.
And the film ends.
So like the same?
Idea he’s still like doing what
he’s doing, but like, I guess
she doesn’t get as happy as an
ending.
Some people find the ending of
this movie to be like a
horrible, scary, awful thing to
imagine which like.
I think I’ve even seen it recut
as.
Like a horror fell well, if she.
Has a bad day?
And she has a bad day on a boat.
Yeah, I also.
Found something where the
director Pete says that there
was a script version ending that
had Lucy waking up in bed and
she had a mural that she painted
on her ceiling that tells the
story of her accident and her
life since.
And then as her eyes pan from
left to right, she turns and
sees Henry lying next to her.
But because she’s seen him in
this mural, she knows he’s safe.
She’s not as freaked.
Out which is really like a.
Beautiful way of doing it.
It’s pretty cool.
I guess I could see how like if
that had been done.
It’s very visual, like, yeah,
but that would have probably
been hard to execute too.
It’d be hard to execute and I
guess they really like the.
Idea of also making sure that
like Henry still went and did
his dream right so they they
like that idea a little bit more
yeah so yeah.
So Lucy.
Wakes up and.
There’s her tape and she puts it
in and she finds out that she’s
married.
Yeah.
So again, I’m like, thank God
that we saw him propose in her,
except.
Right.
And I I always.
Love seeing.
Bride.
Drew in movies.
I don’t know why, it just
really, really does it for me.
I feel like I like all her movie
bride looks more than her real
bride looks.
She looks beautiful.
Yeah, she does.
And it’s just such a short
scene.
I think there’s a little bit
more in one of the other like
featurette type things, like
another little clip and you see
like a little bit more of her
dress.
Yeah.
But yeah, so the I guess, I
guess she’s kind of started to
explain that she watches the
tape, but I think she still
doesn’t know she was where she
is.
No, because Henry says like put
on a.
Jacket it’s really cold outside
or something like that.
That’s right.
So.
This is another like, big CGI
thing.
So the scenery and the wide
shots were shot in Blackstone
Bay, Alaska.
I’m just going to say one thing
about Alaska, I guess, before I
move on.
I was like, yeah, oh, Alaska’s
so much closer to Seattle than
Hawaii.
That’s because I always.
Thought like.
That’s.
Very far.
I wonder if.
It was Alaska in the original
script and then they just left
it a lot of sense I bet.
You’re right because think if
you were to go to Alaska from.
Seattle, Yeah.
Like it’s still.
It’s probably still long, but.
It would be like weeks on it
anyway, So I had that thought
and I was like, Oh, just knowing
that geography, like
geographically as a W coaster,
like, you know, anyway, so so
back to the scene.
So scenery and wide shots shot
in Blackstone be Alaska drew on
the boat looking out the window
was shot on a stage in Hawaii.
So just like completely indoors
and I love that we have footage
of this.
That’s.
On the DVD, it’s really neat to
see.
Oh, it’s so cool.
Yeah, it is.
To see like before they kind of
edit in the like window, it
pulls back and then they’re
outside.
The other boat scenes that she’s
in were done in Hawaii with
Alaskan background overlaid.
So like huge CGI.
Also, she says she was like
sweating in the parka in Hawaii
because she had to like pretend
it was cold and they had to like
CGI like breath, you know, like
it was cold outside.
I.
Also said something where they
said.
They had like.
Like buoys in the water and then
they use those to be for like
iceberg, right?
Right, it’s it’s, I would never
would have thought, though it’s
not something me neither about.
And it’s like done very well.
It’s done very well.
And also this scene is
incredibly heartfelt.
So she’s like, of course she
finds that.
But it’s like, anyway, it’s also
like you said, like scary cuz
she’s like, OK, she finds out
she’s married.
Then it’s revealed to her by
looking out the window that
she’s on a boat and then she
goes upstairs in the boat to the
deck and she has a daughter.
Oh my God.
Cuz I don’t think they she
learns that on the tape.
No.
You think they would have put
that on the?
Tape.
But then it wouldn’t be as
impactful because we get that
moment, right?
She hugs, I’m gonna cry.
Just she hugs the little girl
and she says, Oh my goodness,
good.
Morning.
Oh my.
Goodness.
Grandpa’s here.
Yeah, the way she says it is
very.
Like, it makes you, like, crack
immediately.
Yeah.
Drew gets choked up in the
commentary during the scene and
says it’s so meaningful that
Lucy and Henry are making it
work.
Like she’s just like, this is
like going so far to make it
work somehow.
It’s also wild that’s before
she.
Really had daughters in real
life so but it makes it extra
just gets me and I do love that
her dad is also there.
I think that was a great choice
because it’s like okay someone I
know is here and I’d like to
think that even if her memory is
never going to be fixed, like
something about re watching this
tape everyday like feels
familiar at least there’s like
the more she watches it the more
the less freaked out it is.
But I don’t know, maybe that’s
just me trying to make the
ending nice.
Scientifically it can’t be, but.
It’s like, OK, fine, OK, Dan.
Aykroyd, I am a doctor if you
didn’t.
Know the movie is.
Dedicated to it, to the.
Memory of Adam’s dad Stanley
Drew in like when they’re
talking about this in the
commentary, she says that old
Drew adage about Co workers
being her family and she says
like the familiar and the
familial, which I really like.
It’s really sweet.
And like, you know, she’s I
don’t know, they’re like she’s
like kind of branching off of
like how they are her family.
I don’t know.
It’s really sweet.
That’s so sweet.
Also, her dad died the year this
movie came out.
That’s kind of wild.
Yeah, I didn’t think about that.
And then I had to laugh because
I get to the end of the credits
and all of a sudden a cover of
Spandau Ballet’s True comes on
and we talked about this in
Charlie’s Angels that it’s it’s
in The Wedding Singer, ends The
Wedding Singer.
Again, the other song
connection, it’s in Charlie’s
Angels, supposedly, once again
proving we don’t know, Duplex.
Supposedly it’s in Duplex.
So I just was like, Oh my God,
what is with this song in Drew?
It just follows from everywhere
True Drew.
And this time it’s a.
Cover performed.
By Will I Am and Fergie.
So all the songs in the movie,
we’re going to talk about
soundtrack, but they’re all like
OK, let’s talk about the movie
coming out.
And.
The last 22 years, it’s legacy.
That has a lift on.
Sheesh.
OK, so.
The title was changed by the
studio to 50 First dates when
marketing found that the term
kisses was turning off guys.
Too cute, I guess.
Too cute.
So dumb.
So dumb.
Yeah, a little dumb.
It’s fine. 50 First dates is.
Still great.
But that’s just such a silly
Yeah, there is annoying reason.
Dates.
I don’t know, I’m so used to
something cute.
But yeah, about the kisses.
Tons of promotional like events
for this.
Of course, it’s a huge movie.
Drew is on like ton of magazines
made like TV appearances with
Adam and by herself, including
SNL, which yeah, she hosted on
Valentine’s Day.
I remember.
So it was like the day after the
movie came out.
That’s so cool.
And I feel like really?
Her star on the Walk of Fame was
also tied into publicity for
this movie.
Like, we have a feeling that
Sony slash Columbia purchased
the star for her, right?
The executive Amy Pascal is the
one who speaks at Drew’s
ceremony.
Like, it’s interesting when you
watch like, more current ones,
it’s always like, really good
friends or really close Co
stars.
And I’m like, we didn’t even
know who Amy was that day.
Like, who is this lady?
Yeah, right.
I just think that further like
drives home the fact that it was
very much like a promotional
emotional.
And it’s always interesting.
To me that Adam wasn’t there,
even though, like, they did more
stuff together later on in that
same day.
So his schedule was probably
packed, too.
Yeah.
That’s true.
We talked about the red carpet
premiere briefly on our previous
episode because we did this week
at Drew History and we were
there at the premiere in
Westwood on February 3rd at the
Mann Village Theatre.
It was a big star-studded event,
but I don’t really remember.
Oh really?
Do you remember?
Any like highlights?
Immediately.
I mean, it’s just really neat if
you.
Go to Getty Images and look it
up.
Like almost everybody from the
movie is there, and everybody
from the soundtrack, which I
think is like, kind of special
to me.
Like, I mean, there’s so many
people from the soundtrack who
were there.
And I do remember getting really
excited when Tony Kanal from
No Doubt was there.
I do remember that I have a
picture.
I probably have tons of pictures
that I take.
Yeah, they’re on our drive and
then.
Fab.
Fabrizio Moretti, Drew’s
boyfriend at the time, was also
there, but they didn’t, like,
walk the red carpet together.
So like he was there with Julian
Casablancas from The Stroke.
So that was like, fun.
But yeah, it’s really neat when
you go look at the pictures
because it’s like everybody from
the movie and it’s just super.
I have to go and look and
remind.
Myself so Drew later went on to
promote the movie at premieres
in both Berlin and Madrid.
Did they have any like New York?
I don’t think they did.
They just, it went straight to
Europe.
Interesting, kind of
interesting, Adam.
Wasn’t with her at those.
So again, like just booked and
busy, booked and busy.
They’re like, here go.
Go, go, go talk about the movie,
Joel.
Yeah.
Go represent, yeah.
So then the film actually was
released in theaters in the US,
as we said, on February 13th,
weekend.
And it was exactly 6 years after
the Wedding Singers 1998
release, which I just love.
And it’s also so crazy be like,
there was only six years in
between those.
That’s what I was just going to
say.
And how many years was it then
to blended 10, OK.
Right.
I mean, so we’re in 2014.
I yeah, think so.
And then now.
We’re at 12 years since.
Anything way overdue, but also
the time.
Between wedding singer and 50 First.
We will never not be surprised.
The how small the amount of time
is between like every year in
the 90s?
What is time?
What?
Is time.
I don’t understand time.
Andrew said at the time.
That she thought people were
going to enjoy the movie because
it is so romantic.
And I just thought this was so
cute.
This is what Elle magazine was
sort of saying about it.
She said she believes with all
her heart that the world would
be much improved if we strive to
be a bit less shaded and spent
more time sprinkling a little
fairy dust around.
That’s so trail so 50 First dates is
like her Pixie dust.
And she was also just so.
Happy to put a.
Gift out into the world of
joyfulness.
And yeah, I definitely felt that
way when we saw it.
We mentioned Saturday Night
Live.
Earlier was one of the things
that Drew did during the
promotion and Adam and his whole
gang came to Saturday Night Live
when Drew hosted during the
films opening weekend and in her
dressing room they announced how
the movie had like broken
records and was a huge hit and
the whole room was screaming and
dancing.
She says this whole she explains
this in Wildflower.
I mean, I feel like she was a
couple.
I don’t know if it’s the same
chapter where she talks about
like, box office, like stress.
Yeah.
I mean, it’s come up in like.
Articles that we’ve read a lot
too, how as a producer she has
to care about that, but normally
she would just like to make a
movie and like, it’s the
experience and she just wants to
move on.
But yeah, when you’re a
producer, you have a
responsibility to perform so.
Luckily, thankfully, you know,
for her production company and
all those money things, it
opened in the US at #1 in the
box office and stayed on the top
The movie grossed more than
$198,000,000 worldwide, which I
know is big.
Yeah, it was a success.
They definitely made back their
budget more than yes it.
There were mixed reviews by
critics, but audiences loved it.
It’s kind of I feel like every
Adam Sandler movie for the most
part is going to get that right.
Critics are just not into hand
except for like things.
He’s getting huge.
Accolades for now.
More serious generally, yeah,
but I pulled some.
Really nice notes about Drew’s
performance that I wanted to
share here.
So, The New York Times said, as
soon as Miss Barrymore shows up,
the forces of coarseness and
idiocy surrender.
Before her bright, soft smile
and sly good humor, Drew is
like.
The perfect balance.
That’s what makes this
palatable.
I think If it didn’t have
something like that, I would not
enjoy it.
And she makes Adam so lovable.
You know, Entertainment Weekly
said the movie, for all its
genial idiocy.
Wow, idiocy in two reviews, Oops
connects emotionally by tapping
into the frustration of Lucy’s
condition.
Barrymore has such a flaky,
bedazzled charm that you start
to get invested in seeing her
rescued.
Just nice.
And then people said Barrymore
hits emotional notes that are
pure, simple and unforced.
That sort of talent can almost
literally light up the screen.
Drew as a light.
Take a drink, someone.
Said she’s a light.
We mentioned the soundtrack, so
it was a pretty.
Successful soundtrack included a
lot of reggae influence covers
of 80s songs.
You’ve mentioned them throughout
a couple times, but it’s a great
soundtrack.
Like it is really fun.
It is, I know, and props to.
My man Tony Kanal of No Doubt,
he co-produced a lot of the
songs along with Nick Hexum of
songs in the movie too which I
love and we saw three 11
together.
Yeah, in Santa Barbara, that’s.
Right.
I just think it’s like a fun way
to like do a tribute to the
wedding singer where it’s like
island style, right?
It’s just fun.
It is really.
Fun.
And then I didn’t realize this
until just last night doing some
more.
Research The score was done by
Teddy Castellucci and he also
did the Wedding Singer score and
apparently he’s in Robbie Hart’s
band in that movie.
So I know, but I think.
That’s really neat.
And I, you know, I wish I.
Known that as I was watching the
movie, but like my memory of the
score, I’m like I can hear it I
think I can hear it the.
Movie was released on Home.
Video that was a thing at one
time guys, I guess it kind of
still is but not like it was
like dropping for streaming
yeah.
So the DVD was released on June
I know I was thinking the same
but I guess.
That’s how it was, yeah.
There were tons of special
features.
Which guys?
This was such an art.
Yeah.
Including a director and drew
commentary recorded a month
after the movie’s released.
We both had forgotten this
existed, so it was really fun to
like.
I was fully like.
Director and cast commentary.
Well, Drew didn’t do that.
Wait a second.
Yes she did Oh my God.
Also it says cast and it’s.
Just her.
Like, it’s kind of funny at the
very end of the commentary,
which I’ve we’ve been mentioning
it throughout, but Drew calls
her contribution to the
commentary hippie blabbering.
Vomit of the mouth, of course.
She does, of course.
She does.
I feel like you would also.
Say that about yourself on the.
Podcast, right?
Yeah.
I don’t know.
What hippie?
But like annoying slabbery.
Can’t.
Stop talking.
Disagree with Ann?
Leave a comment.
Don’t.
I’m not fishing, OK.
There’s also a 7 minute blooper
reel which is a joy to have that
many so fun.
Like it kept going.
I was like yes, same.
I can’t think of anything like.
That stands out, but it’s great,
the whole thing.
I mean, she does a cat hiss and
that too, right?
She sure does, she says.
What if I wake?
Up like this.
Because that’s how I wake up in
real life.
I’m obviously not good.
At a cat hiss.
Sorry, guys.
There we go.
That’s the only one, OK.
Blooper reel and making a
featurette that’s also, like,
fun in 20 minutes.
Yeah.
And it has, like, lots of great
footage.
You mentioned, I think earlier
this Ula’s movie roundup, that
was the special for Comedy
Central where Rob Schneider’s
literally just his character.
It’s really funny and they
filmed that.
In Honolulu in 2004 during the,
like, movie release promo time.
So it’s kind of neat.
Yeah.
I love that they included that.
Yeah.
It’s fun.
And a few.
Deleted scenes which we’ve
mentioned throughout like
stacked DVD we.
Talked about this in the
Charlie’s Angels episode.
DVDs used to be so awesome and
have so much content on them and
that’s just gone.
It’s I mean hooks.
I have like one more like
thought about.
That like, I realize now they
just expect that like all this
footage is just coming out like
on social media.
Yeah.
So like, why would you then want
it on a DVD but like, you’ll
never be able to get it again
later.
Yeah, it’s not the same and
like.
Commentaries are so awesome.
Like I think are the only other
ones Drew’s done.
Johnny Darko and riding cars
with boys.
I think so.
Like I remember being so bummed
that Whip it didn’t have the
director’s commentary.
And it’s like, already at that
time, I think the studios were
like, yeah, we’re not putting
money into that.
And like, what is it?
You’re just like playing a movie
and recording.
Them talking.
I know another kind of neat
thing about this being.
Released on video is that this
is one of six, the very first
six movies that were ever
released on Blu-ray.
They included this one, and it
was on June 20th, 2006.
Yeah.
So it’s like OG Blu-ray?
Do you have it on Blu-ray?
I don’t think I do.
I think I just.
Have the DVD, but I think it’s
all the same I think I like
remember looking at the time and
I probably didn’t even have a
Blu-ray player right and I think
it was all the same features so
it like yeah bothered.
I don’t know if I have.
I think I only.
Have Donnie Darko on Blu-ray.
I have Scream I.
Have many copies.
Of Scream.
That makes sense.
That’s probably one of the only
two just continuing on with the
success of the movie.
At the 2004 MTV Movie Awards,
Drew and Adam won Best on Screen
Team, and then later that year
at the Teen Choice Awards, they
won Choice Date Movie.
So you know, it was a huge
success.
People loved it.
Critics maybe thought it was
full of idiocy, but everyone
else liked yes.
In 2005, Drew and Nancy
participated in a question and
answers and screening of the
film at the Arclight in
Hollywood as part of a Masters
of Storytelling series.
And we were there, Yeah.
It’s so neat.
And thankfully, there’s some.
Footage that the like master
storytelling thing, like
released, right?
Or is it somebody that was
there?
I don’t know who put it up, but
it’s on.
YouTube, so we will link to it
and we get a really special
shout out at the very end of
that.
So guys, just watch that and
know that we are quote UN quote,
the coolest women in the world.
That was us also, I remembered.
Earlier today they gave us like
a little.
Commemorative glass, yeah, 50 First
dates on it.
That’s where we got those.
That’s funny.
I don’t think I realized it was
from that, although I.
Know exactly what glass you’re
talking about?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
It’s in my memorabilia
collection, of course in 20. 20
at the.
Very beginning.
I think it was like week 1 of
season 1 of The Drew Barrymore
Show.
Drew and Adam film this little
skit of 50 First dates like here’s
here’s what’s been going on in
Like it’s Lucy putting in the
tape and seeing all these 2020
things.
It’s very sweet.
I love that Adam did that with
her like for the show as she was
starting out.
Drew claims that the wig she
wears in this little skit is the
wig she wears in full throttle
in the hot dog on a stick scene
and that Mister Daniel just like
reworked it.
I I just don’t.
See.
It looks so different.
Like so different.
I mean, I guess I don’t know,
like wigs are just like hair.
So I guess they could have like
maybe completely brushed it out
and it was that long, but it
looks shorter and it looks like
it’s blonde in the little video
behind the scenes, Mr. Daniels,
like, starts talking about.
He’s like, oh, it’s a very short
wig originally.
And then Drew’s like, Oh yeah,
it’s from Charlie’s Angels, it’s
this one.
And I was like, what?
But hope?
I mean, would she have kept that
all those years?
I don’t.
Know I almost wanna see what
other wig from Charlie’s Angels
full throttle.
It could be if not like the only
time, but it could be anything
like that, OK.
Well, we just don’t know.
Well, I guess I’m looking right
now at the length of the bangs.
Yeah, maybe similar, I don’t
know.
It’s it’s full, it’s far
fetched.
If it is true, yeah.
If.
If so, props to.
Mr. Daniel, because he did a
really great job with that.
And then Robin Fredericks, who
did the makeup for 50 First Dates,
did her makeup for this little
scene, too.
I love that.
And the last thing is.
Part of its legacy up through
basically now.
In 2025, there was a musical
stage adaptation in the United
Kingdom, and Drew had sent in a
supportive video to the cast and
crew about it.
And I don’t remember it at all.
Oh, really?
No, I unfortunately, like, have
no memory of it.
And because it’s get full Lucy.
Yeah.
Yeah, that’s me.
But it’s very sweet.
She’s like, very.
Excited about it and she’s
talking about how like again, I
think she brings up like this is
about making love stay and like,
we should always have you to
strive for that.
Unfortunately, it’s been deleted
from her Instagram.
Don’t ask me why, but you can
still see a small snippet of it
on the show’s Instagram.
So I will link to that on the
episode page.
Cool.
And that’s it.
Oh my.
God, how do you say few in
Hawaiian?
Aloha, yeah.
Everything is Aloha, right?
Everything is Aloha.
Exactly.
What a fun.
Movie.
I had so much fun just digging
into it over the last two weeks
and just kind of reliving it.
It had been a while for me.
Yeah, since I’ve watched it.
Me too.
It still holds up for me.
I think after my initial
viewing, I might have ranked it
higher than The Wedding Singer,
but Wedding Singer still has my
heart as like their number one.
I still love that one a little
bit more.
But this was a great follow up.
And Drew was right.
Like, this is it.
This is the one.
She was totally right.
Yeah.
It’s really sweet.
I loved.
Having an excuse to rewatch it
as I do with all of these but
this one, it like it reminded me
how much like how much I love
it.
Like in the I think I said,
like, I don’t know if I would
like it if it was just Adam’s
team, Adam and Julia Roberts.
No, that wouldn’t have been it
for me, guys.
I mean.
Drew is there like a thing that
he did in Hawaii with?
Jennifer Aniston.
I’ve never seen it.
Probably not a thing.
It probably is a thing.
Yeah, just not, not the same.
Not the same.
We love Drew.
Drew like.
Makes it.
Yeah, Drew makes him, I mean.
Just look at those reviews, they
all kind of said the same thing.
Idiocy.
This is an.
Idiotic movie until the.
Beautiful Drew Barrymore brings
us into reality.
All the Adam Sandler fans who.
Like stayed with us since they
he was on our podcaster here and
we’re talking about how he’s
idiotic.
I’m just kidding.
No, when he’s with.
Drew He.
Is so sweet and beautiful and I
do really appreciate like how he
acts with her and you just.
I just always remember this clip
of her on the set of The Wedding
Singer and she says I would
really be in love with Adam
Sandler.
Yeah, it’s perfect.
I can.
You’re saying it exactly.
The way she.
Said it so I can hear it and
that’s how I do it.
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Hi ladies. I’m Adrienne, from Canada.
Recently I started following your Drewseum & podcast, I’m so enjoying them. 1995 was a huge Drew year for me, Boys On The Side & Mad Love are two of my favorite Drew films.
I just turned 53 this past week, I’m a Pisces,
(like Drew) and I had to reach out because I am so in love with Mad Love and would love to read the script (it’s been impossible to find). In recently years I have been collecting scripts to films I love that went through major changes during production (The Craft is a favourite). I saw Mad Love in the theatre twice, in May 1995, I still have my receipt somewhere.
I was only 23 in 1995, I’m 53 now, did I say that? Mad Love always left a strong impression on me. If possible, can we please make some arrangement for me to be able to get a copy of the script? I wouldn’t share it, it would be for my own longstanding Drew appreciation. I know the film went through changes and I always try finding info on yeh cuts. I have the Bluray from KinoLober(?) which I bought for the commentary. Interesting but the trailer and lobby cards online show more cut footage. Anyways, great job. ❤️