Helen Hunt nearly quit ‘Twister’ shortly before filming — here’s why

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Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Wednesday ahead of the sequel’s release.“And so a week or two before, I remember sitting in Oklahoma with ice on my knee and calling my agent and going, ‘Am I going to be able to pull this off?’ ” Hunt recalled. “So, for me, it was just like ‘Run anyway’ because I had no other choice.”Ultimately, Hunt played the lead role in “Twister,” which became the second-highest grossing film of 1996.The movie follows a group of amateur storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe tornado outbreak in Oklahoma.Hunt — who starred alongside Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck and Philip Seymour Hoffman — said that “Twister” was “a very physical movie.”“Looking back, it’s all for the best that there wasn’t the technology to do it all on your laptop.

Instead, they just pummeled the s–t out of us, and it looks amazing,” the actress continued. “So much of acting now is you’re looking at a piece of tape, or you’re looking at a green screen, or you’re looking at dots on someone’s face, and someone has to tell you, ‘Well, what’s going to be here later is this thing’s going to come around the corner.’ ““A lot of what we reacted to was really happening.

And while it made it messier, it made it easier to act,” she added.Hunt will not appear in the stand-alone sequel “Twisters” starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones.Powell, 35, told Vogue in December that “Twisters” is “a completely original story.”“It’s definitely not a reboot,” he said. “We’re not trying to re-create the story from the first one.”In 2021, Hunt revealed that she pitched a sequel concept four years prior — but her idea was rejected.“I tried to get it made,” Hunt said on “Watch.