Rosie O’Donnell was so exhausting pressed to recollect her strains in “Sleepless in Seattle” {that a} crew member taped them to his leg for the actor to learn throughout filming.
O’Donnell revealed to Vulture that she was having issue with a protracted monologue within the 1993 romantic comedy — incomes the enmity of director Nora Ephron.
“I’m doing this complete factor, and she or he yells, ‘Minimize! It was ‘a tree,’ not ‘the tree,’” O’Donnell recalled Thursday.
Within the prolonged monologue, O’Donnell’s character, Becky, recollects getting right into a automobile accident together with her husband.
“It was the longest speech I had ever stated in a movie in my profession as much as that time,” O’Donnell stated. “She saved saying ‘minimize’ after I wouldn’t get it proper. One of many grips had taped the entire [monologue] on his leg, away from the place [Ephron] may see.”
Within the hit movie, O’Donnell’s character is a good friend of Annie, performed by Meg Ryan, who falls in love with Tom Hanks’ character Sam after he speaks about shedding his spouse on a radio present.
O’Donnell learn the script off the grip’s leg and eventually managed to get it proper for the exacting director, who died in 2012.
“Minimize!” stated Ephron. “That was good!”
