She was by no means Josie Grossie! Drew Barrymore stole hearts from the second she hit the massive display screen in Never Been Kissed.
The actress performed Josie Geller within the 1999 romantic comedy. The aspiring author posed as a highschool scholar to review teen tradition, however issues acquired difficult when the never-been-kissed (therefore the title) twentysomething fell for her trainer Sam Coulson (Michael Vartan).
The movie had a star-studded forged that included David Arquette (Rob Geller), Molly Shannon (Anita), John C. Reilly (Augustus “Gus” Strauss), Leelee Sobieski (Aldys) and Garry Marshall (Rigfort). Jessica Alba, Octavia Spencer and James Franco additionally performed supporting roles earlier than hitting the massive time.
The stars reunited in September 2021 to revisit the film’s greatest moments. “There’s a story about the famous scene that very few people know about,” Vartan defined on The Drew Barrymore Show on the time. “I get up to the mound, we embrace and we start kissing, and you really kissed me. I mean, you really kissed me. I was not ready for it in the least and I am a man. I was a very young man back then, and I had feelings.”
The Alias alum added: “The feelings were — they just happened — and I very quickly realized I was in a very bad spot because I was wearing very loose, like, slacks, and I thought, ‘This is going to be a disaster when they cut, I must preemptively end this.’”
Barrymore confirmed that she put additional effort into the kiss. “You weren’t married at the time, so yeah, I went for it because you were single and I felt like I wasn’t going to offend anybody,” she famous.
While followers shipped Josie and Sam, Vartan identified a significant flaw of their romance. “I don’t know if someone who had a darker disposition at the time, maybe the creep factor would have intensified it a bit,” he advised Page Six in April 2019 about being forged within the function. “But if I’m a 30-year-old man and I think this girl is 17, it’s completely inappropriate.”
The actor tried to present his character the advantage of the doubt, although. “I don’t think he lusted for her,” he mentioned. “It certainly wasn’t a physical thing. I mean, obviously she’s beautiful, but I think … he just sort of fell for her as a human being. He’s just really taken by her spirit and her soul and, you know, maybe deep down inside he felt like there’s no way this girl is 17, but on the surface, a teacher hitting on a student of any gender, for that matter, who is underage is completely inappropriate.”
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