After 35 years, Steel Magnolias followers doubtless couldn’t think about anybody however Julia Roberts taking part in the tragic position of Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie.
Marking the thirty fifth anniversary of the southern comedy drama, Daryl Hannah revealed that director Herbert Ross initially needed her to play Shelby, and he or she needed to beg to audition for the a part of soft-spoken newcomer Annelle Dupuy-DeSoto.
“He was like, ‘No, completely not, I don’t see it.’ And I mentioned, ‘Please let me,’” recalled Hannah to People.
She in the end went to the audition, styling her hair just like the hairdresser character and carrying her personal glasses. “And he didn’t acknowledge me. I like that feeling the place you actually flip into anyone else,” mentioned Hannah.
Based mostly on the 1987 play by Robert Harling, Metal Magnolias follows a gaggle of ladies who bond via life and dying of their small Louisiana city. The character Shelby was primarily based on Robert’s sister Susan, who died in 1985 of issues from kind 1 diabetes.
Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Sally Discipline and Dylan McDermott in Metal Magnolias (1989). (TriStar/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Roberts’ efficiency earned the actress her first Oscar nomination and first Golden Globe for Greatest Supporting Actress — Movement Image.
Metal Magnolias was one or Roberts’ first movies. “However she was at all times a really assured woman,” mentioned Hannah. “She was very assured about herself. I bear in mind her asking [costar] Sam Shepard to put in writing her one thing, and I used to be like, ‘Whoa, that takes balls.’”
The movie additionally stars Sally Discipline, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Tom Skerritt and Dylan McDermott.
