Drew Barrymore Hosted an 'Ever After' Reunion, Costumes and All
glamour.comEver After, Drew Barrymore invited her co-stars and Megan Dodds to reminisce about the shoot on her talk show…in costume, obviously.In the film, based on the story of Cinderella, played the kind and hard-working Danielle, while Lynskey and Dodds were her “evil stepsisters.” Really though, only Dodds's character Marguerite is evil, taking after their haughty mother Romilla (Anjelica Houston).
Jacqueline, played by Lynskey, is a homie stuck in a bad family.Megan Dodds and Melanie Lynskey, 1998.Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott, 1998.Dodds and Lynskey lived together while shooting the film in France, and recalled crashing their car and using broken French to ask for help.
Feeling groovy, they also took topless photos in a cornfield. “Lucy Liu also took nude photos of me on Charlie's Angels,” said Barrymore. “I guess it's just what us girls do.”The three women got a special surprise when Dougray Scott, who played Prince Henry, Zoom'd in from out of town.
Ever the royal, he dutifully wore a costume, too. Drew Barrymore revealed a little behind-the-scenes movie magic, admitting that as strong as a person she is “inside,” she couldn't carry Scott on her back for the pivotal scene in which Danielle—flipping the prince-rescues-princess convention on its head—rescues Henry.
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