15. The movie was a household affair for Marshall, together with his son Scott Marshall working as his second unit director, even taking pictures the movie’s opening scene of Roberts on horseback. He additionally performed the resort clerk who’s infatuated with Maggie. His daughter Kathy Marshall performed a bridesmaid, Cousin Cindy, and his spouse Barbara Sue Wells, who postponed her journey to Australia, additionally made it in.
“My spouse has one line within the costume store,” Marshall revealed in The Hollywood Interview. “She was in Fairly Girl and received minimize out, so I owed her!”
16. Marshall additionally makes a fast look, enjoying the primary baseman throughout the baseball scene.
17. The so-ugly-it’s-actually-cute “platypus” face that Maggie makes wasn’t within the authentic script, however Marshall determined so as to add it in when he noticed Roberts do the face for his visiting grandchildren.
18. It is laborious to think about something in Runaway Bride being all that controversial, however one scene was really minimize after some take a look at audiences had issues.
As a part of the top credit score sequence, a scene confirmed two girls jogging with a canine, and “a good-looking boy goes by, and the younger lady provides the canine to the grandmother, and she or he would not need it and dumps it within the rubbish,” Marshall revealed to EW.
The response, you possibly can think about, was combined. “Half the viewers, the One thing About Mary group, screamed laughing, and the opposite half was, ‘Why did you kill the canine?”‘ Marshall mentioned, including he shot 4 back-up scenes and finally used a type of.