Cusack attended Peter Gabriel's 2012 concert at the Hollywood Bowl commemorating the 25th anniversary of his landmark album "So," but as the first few measures of "In Your Eyes" started to play, Cusack entered the stage and simply handed a boombox to Gabriel, who ended up imitating the iconic image himself. Three years later, Cusack still wouldn't strike the Lloyd Dobler pose - even in the presence of the man who sang the song coming out of the boombox. I don't have to do anything with this, right?"Ĭusack seemed almost physically repulsed by the prop, which Horowitz called a "visceral reaction." Cusack's "2012" co-star, Amanda Peet, tried to break the tension by offering to imitate the Lloyd Dobler stance herself, though the interview had already "reached the completely surreal."
"No, no, no, no, no, no no," protested the suddenly very uncomfortable Cusack. In keeping with Crowe's direction to "be defiant," Cusack was a bit taken aback during a 2009 interview with MTV Movies when interviewer Josh Horowitz presented him with a cardboard cutout version of the boombox. Years later, Cusack still seems to be a little iffy on the scene and its formidable legacy. It was a different kind of feel than either one of us had originally planned." "So I finally did it, but I did it without a look of longing and adoration and love. "I wanted to just have the boombox be on top of the car and him sitting on the roof," added Cusack. "The last take - it was a place across the street from a 7-Eleven on Lankershim in the Valley - he held up the boombox, and on his face is the whole story of the character - the love of the girl, and, I think, John's feeling that it was a little too subservient but he was going to do it anyway." "My whole argument was, 'Be defiant with the holding of the boombox,'" said Crowe. He didn't love the scene, he didn't quite understand it yet - he certainly does now - and he wanted to be more laid-back."Ĭrowe found the right direction that made the scene work for his star - and put the now-classic look of silent dignity on Cusack's face. "John felt that Lloyd was kowtowing too much by holding up the boombox, and that it was too subservient a move.
2002 (back when the film was barely 13 years old). " was the last thing shot on the last day with the last moment of sunlight," recalled director Cameron Crowe in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in Feb.
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The default publicity still for "Say Anything." isn't one of noble, self-styled kickboxer Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) and good-girl valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye) entwined in a lovers' embrace but rather one of Lloyd all by himself, standing outside the home of his ladylove, proclaiming his devotion via a certain Peter Gabriel song ("In Your Eyes," but you knew that already) coming from the boombox he's holding high above his head.įor pretty much everyone, this is the defining moment of the film, a proud and unapologetic symbol of young love and old-school movie romance.Īnd John Cusack originally didn't want to do it. yet oddly enough, its most iconic image almost never happened. Over the past quarter-century, it's become one of the most cherished cinematic romances of all time. "Say Anything.," Cameron Crowe's pitch-perfect post-high school love story, was released in theaters 25 years ago today.
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