Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.
He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then.
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.