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