Alicia Silverstone actually needed The Crush.

After shifting to Hollywood in her early teenagers, the long run Clueless star was in a sample of almosts.

"At first, I used to be auditioning virtually day-after-day, however I wasn't getting something," Silverstone tells Leisure Weekly. "Then, abruptly, I began to get near every thing. They might say, 'It's between you and one different lady.' However that really was worse. I'd get so shut after which be dissatisfied, the place earlier than I didn't care."

And initially, that was her expertise with The Crush, writer-director Alan Shapiro's movie a few 28-year-old author who finds himself the item of a 14-year-old lady's harmful obsession.

"They’d me again many, many occasions, and it appeared like I used to be going to get the half — after which they provided it to another person. It felt actually dangerous. For some motive, I felt like I used to be imagined to play this psychotic character," she remembers with fun.

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However then, Silverstone says, the unique star dropped out, she bought the decision that the half was lastly hers.

"I simply keep in mind that, once I was little, telling those who I used to be 'going to kiss the boy from The Princess Bride, however he's lots older than me,'" Silverstone says of starring reverse Cary Elwes, who is sort of 14 years her senior. "We had this kiss within the movie and, as a result of I used to be younger, I assumed that that meant he was my boyfriend now. Probably not, however little bit. I went to his trailer and requested him if that was okay, and he was so sort."

"Lisa Marie [Kubikoff], his spouse, despatched me footage from again within the day the place we're laying collectively, and I'm taking a look at her whereas she's taking the image like, 'That is my man,'" Silverstone — who lately graced the duvet of EW's '90s Concern — continues. "However, actually, he was a very good huge brother to me and took care. He was so pretty. We had a really skilled relationship and he was very big-brother-like to me, and really candy and type. It was only a nice job. What an amazing half to play. It was so enjoyable."

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Silverstone shared the Elwes anecdote as half of a bigger cruise down Reminiscence Lane, wanting again at her iconic '90s roles, together with The Marvel Years, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Previous, and extra. You can too watch the video interview in full above.

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