Are you sitting down? Can you believe it has been 25 years since we fell in love with Ever After? Well, it has been. And today, Drew Barrymore reunited with her stepsisters, Melanie Lynskey and Megan Dodds, from the Cinderella retelling on her talk show.
Along with reuniting, they shared behind-the-scenes secrets. For example, on day three of filming, Lynskey and Dodds went into the nearby cornfield and took topless photos of each other. That is the stuff taboo porn is all about!
But that is not all. Barrymore shared that she used her grandfather John Barrymore’s partying with Angelica Huston’s father, John Huston, to get the legendary actress to play her Evil Stepmother in the movie. Whatever worked because the casting was brilliant.
Not only was her casting perfect, as was Dougray Scott as Prince Henry. He almost didn’t get the part because he had a bad first audition, but Drew went to bat for him. And the rest is a fairy tale come true.
Back to the actresses. It truly is like they stepped into a time machine because they look exactly the same as they did a quarter of a century.
And now I am off to watch Ever After again for the umpteenth time. It is the perfect story of true love.
