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 gown store,” Marshall revealed in The Hollywood Interview. “She was in Fairly Lady and obtained minimize out, so I owed her!”
16. Marshall additionally makes a fast look, taking part in the primary baseman through the baseball scene.
17. The so-ugly-it’s-actually-cute “platypus” face that Maggie makes wasn’t within the unique 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 considerations.
As a part of the tip credit score sequence, a scene confirmed two ladies jogging with a canine, and “a good-looking boy goes by, and the younger lady offers the canine to the grandmother, and he or she does not need it and dumps it within the rubbish,” Marshall revealed to EW.
The response, you possibly can think about, was blended. “Half the viewers, the One thing About Mary group, screamed laughing, and the opposite half was, ‘Why did you kill the canine?”‘ Marshall stated, including he shot 4 back-up scenes and finally used a kind of.