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Garry Marshall has fun with the past
submitted by: Lisa D.
source: USA Today
Date: July 6, 2001
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
Leave it to director Garry Marshall to sneak in fun references to his past work in the upcoming comic fable The Princess Diaries, due Aug. 3. The teen fantasy, starring newcomer Anne Hathaway as a gawky high-schooler who learns she's heir to a throne, has echoes of Pretty Woman, Marshall's 1990 smash with Julia Roberts as a hooker Cinderella.
In Pretty Woman, Roberts sent a snail flying across a fancy restaurant. A kindly waiter played by Allan Kent assures her, "It happens all the time."
In The Princess Diaries, Hathaway clumsily breaks a wineglass and accidentally sets a guest's sleeve on fire. A butler, also played by Kent, comforts her by saying, "It happens all the time." Larry Miller, who assisted Roberts with her uptown makeover, also restyles Hathaway into a beauty.
But a moment that never made it into Pretty Woman did make the cut in Diaries, Marshall says. Hathaway's awkward reaction after gulping a large portion of palate-cleansing sorbet was inspired by a real-life Roberts faux pas.
During a dining scene with Richard Gere and Ralph Bellamy, "Julia ate the sorbet by mistake," Marshall recalls. "I said to her, 'Mr. Bellamy and Mr. Gere are acting. Stop making noises.' She said, 'It's cold!' I told her, 'Then don't take such a big bite.' She was only about 20 years old, and I don't think she even knew what sorbet was. It never made the film, but it's in the gag reel."
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