John Cusack had some remarks about his character Lloyd Doppler in 1989 Say anything.
Cusack noted that he only agreed to star in Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut, on the condition that he was allowed to make some changes to the script.
He felt that most films about young people put “a 45-50-year-old professional writer in the mouths of all these people.”
“The character was more optimistic, but he didn’t have any dark sides to him,” John Cusack noted, adding that he created it so Lloyd was “choosing to be optimistic,” which made him “kind of heroic.”
He also noted his struggle to create the most memorable scene in a romantic comedy.
Cusack couldn’t get into the mind of his character Lloyd and understand why he had to carry a speaker box blaring Peter Gabriel’s voice. In your eyes Outside the window is Diane Court, played by Ione Skye.
“I didn’t know how to do it because I thought the character was, you know, sitting outside sobbing and kind of saying, ‘Please come back to me,'” Cusack explained during a screening of the film at New York City’s King’s Theater. the people.
He highlighted the reason, saying: “Men have pride, don’t they?”
Finally, “figure this part out.”
Speaking about his character in the film directed by Cameron Crowe, he continued: “He knew there was something fishy, maybe with the father, or that someone was in her head.”
“So I thought, ‘I don’t really know how to do this.’ And then finally at the end of the movie, I thought, ‘Oh, what if it’s really bad?’ And it’s more challenging.’ That’s what made it work.” 1408 The star explained.