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Judd Nelson’s weight has fluctuated ever since he started eating, I mean since we got to know him in The Breakfast Club and now it looks like Suddenly Susan star has lost a few pounds. In fact he lost so much weight, it looks like he needs to buy a new wardrobe because that jacket is way too big on him.
Now that he has gotten to a comfortable weight that makes him look good from the neck down, I hope he shaves that fat beard so he looks good from the neck up!
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Rob Lowe attended the BAFTAs and he debuted his new much lighter hair color. Before you freak out like I did, he dyed his hair to play Drew Peterson for the Lifetime movie and should be going back to being a brunette when the telemovie is done. At least he better because the darker locks go better with his hypnotizing eyes.
BTW how awwwwdorable is Rob’s 15 year old son John Owen? A chip off the old block!
Can you imagine The Breakfast Club with John Cusack playing Judd Nelson’s role and his sister Joan playing Ally Sheedy’s? Well according to what Molly Ringwald told Entertainment Weekly that is what John Hughes wanted, but due to Universal wanting Sixteen Candles shot first they had a conflict and had to drop out of the film. I love the Cusacks, but I would’ve hated them in those roles. John isn’t as bad a$$ as Judd and Ally was perfect as the weirdo that I am not sure Joan would’ve brought to the role.
But it doesn’t stop there because that was not the only movie where the cast might’ve been different than what we saw in the movie. Flashdance was a big box office success and Paramount wanted Jennifer Beals to play Andie in Pretty in Pink, but John Hughes and director Howard Deutch fought to get her the role back. That isn’t the only role in that movie that was almost played by someone else. Michael J Fox was the original Duckie, but dropped out to replace Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future. Then they went with Robert Downey Jr, who the fake red head told EW, ”He was just so funny and charming and charismatic, and we had this sort of sexual charisma together.” And then she added that when they went geekier with Jon Cryer, there was no sexual interest there. Ouch. When it comes to Fox in the role, I think that would’ve been a mistake but Downey would’ve been perfect. No offense to Cryer, who was brilliant in the movie but RDJ would’ve been brilliant in the role.
And there is one more casting that would’ve changed Hughes movies forever and that would’ve been the role of hottie Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles. She said the role was between Michael Shoeffling and Viggo Mortensen and as we know in movie history who the role went for. She said he lost out on the role because he kissed her during the final audition and Shoeffling didn’t. Hughes was protective of his female star and went with the actor who kept his lips to himself. I am grateful for that kiss because sorry to say to Viggo all girls who see that movie want a man just like Shoeffling and I don’t he would’ve garnered the same response. Although she added that LOTR star, “‘He made me weak in the knees. Absolutely.” I am not saying he isn’t gorgeous makes us weak in our knees, but not in the same way Shoeffling did.
So now that you know who might’ve been in the coming of age movies, which actors do you think worked or would’ve worked better?
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Ally Sheedy came out for the opening night of Ghetto Klown and I think with that head ribbon the 48 year old actress looks just like she did at the end of The Breakfast Club. Remember in the movie when Claire gave her a makeover at the end of their day? Well doesn’t she look just like she did when Andrew finally noticed her in the 1985 movie? Can you believe she made that movie over 26 years ago because she hasn’t aged a day since then. She seriously looks as beautiful now as when she was the Outcast who became a beauty!
So Owen Wilson has a new movie Hall Pass coming out this Friday and he tries to explain to some young boys what that means. So the new dad references it to blueberry pie and that is all they can have for the rest of their lives. So the little tykes ask him, “Can I stick my finger in another pie?” and “Can I lick the bowl?” To which he tells them they aren’t any loop holes, and that they will be stuck eating the same pie forever unless that pie gives them a Hall Pass to down other pies. Do you think they understood what he was saying, watch the Funny or Die video all the way through for the best antidote I have ever seen for any of their videos. It seriously left me so speechless, I had to watch it again to believe that was really said!
