Princess buttercup robin wright11/14/2023 ![]() ![]() In December 2015, Cary Elwes also addressed this subject: “I consider Robin a very dear friend. I could have walked, but I would have had to have paid three times the amount I made on that show in the whole two years.” But no film gets shot in four weeks and I did three movies, so every extra week extended approximately a month or two onto my contract. She explained: “I had a clause in my two-year TV contract that let me out for four weeks once a year to do films. Years later, in 1992, Robin also talked about this. My agents and managers decided that I should agree to anything, to work Saturdays, to kiss their butts for the next nine months, whatever it took to get out and do the film.” “That wasn’t a fair trade,” Robin said, “but it was worth it. Robin wanted to leave the soap in July 1987, but then she was chained until June 1988. In exchange for allowing her time off to film the movie, they required her to extend her contract by almost a year. And the time of filming the movie, Robin Wright was playing Kelly Capwell, one of the heroines of soap opera ‘Santa Barbara’. In fact, ‘The Princess Bride’ required a 4 month shooting schedule on location throughout England and Ireland. In 1986, Robin Wright was also offered the leading role in ‘Dirty Dancing’ but she had to turn it down because the filming was at the same time that Rob Reiner’s movie. I had heard that Rob wanted someone who looked like Julie Christie in ‘Doctor Zhivago’. “I knew there were 500 other girls dying to play the part. She was the only one that I could find.”īut, before her audition in 1986, Robin Wright didn’t think she had a chance. She did a perfect British accent because her father is British, so that was in her ear. I needed to find a young girl that could do the British accent. ![]() I needed a young girl because I had already cast Cary who was 21 at the time. First of all, Buttercup is described as the most beautiful girl in all the land. We all had our image of what Buttercup should look like and Robin was perfect.”Īlmost 30 years later, in September 2015, Rob Reiner talked about Robin as Buttercup. Rob Reiner said that “the moment Robin walked into my office, I knew she was my Buttercup. Uma Thurman also auditioned for Buttercup, but the producers thought she was too exotic looking for the part. Courteney Cox and Meg Ryan were among them. In 1986, director Rob Reiner was looking for someone “beautiful, vulnerable, regal and young” to play Princess Buttercup in his long-planned movie version of ‘The Princess Bride’. And I didn’t want to go: “well, I did a semi porn before that”. But then I did ‘The Princess Bride’ and everyone thought it was my first thing. I thought ‘Hollywood Vice Squad’ was an escape from the soap (Santa Barbara) and so far for me to play a teenage hooker. In an interview from 1993 Robin talked about this: “I didn’t know anything about the business. Wright’s billing in ‘The Princess Bride’ is “Introducing Robin Wright”, the same that was used a year before in ‘Hollywood Vice Squad’. Some people think ‘The Princess Bride’ is the debut of Robin Wright in cinema, but that’s not true because, a year earlier, she made her first feature film called ‘Hollywood Vice Squad’where she had a supporting role as a runaway teenage girl, who gets caught in the world of pornography and prostitution. USA Release Date: 25 September 1987 (limited, 9 theaters)įilming Locations: United Kingdom and Ireland.įilming Dates: 18 August 1986 – December 1986 Writing Credits: William Goldman (screenplay & book)Ĭast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Fred Savage, Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, Carol Kane and Billy Crystal. Plot: Buttercup (Robin Wright) is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the odious Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), and Westley (Cary Elwes), her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts, attempts to save her. ![]()
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