You would possibly've heard that Matthew McConaughey almost performed Rob Lowe's character in Chris Farley's 1995 comedy traditional Tommy Boy, however do you know he auditioned for the half on a heap of mouse turds?

Director Peter Segal shared the crappy circumstances across the encounter whereas talking with Leisure Weekly in celebration of the movie's thirtieth anniversary and its upcoming launch on 4K (out March 25).

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"I do not forget that we had been capturing the scene by the lake, and I had been aware of Dazed and Confused, however I feel that was the one factor I had recognized of McConaughey on the time," he recalled.

"And we went into some— it was both the restroom or it was like a ship home, however it was on the sting of the lake, and it was simply stuffed with mouse s—," Segal added. "However that's the place he auditioned. After which, Rob's schedule modified, and we ended up going with Rob. However yeah, it was a weird place to do an audition, that's for positive."

After all, the half ended up going to the Brat Packer, who was the preliminary selection for the function however needed to briefly drop out attributable to scheduling conflicts that had been in the end resolved. Showing in his second Saturday Night Live-adjacent movie after Wayne's World, Lowe performed the villainous Paul Barrish, Tommy's older stepbrother, who plots to take over his father's firm with assist from his secret lover, partner-in-crime, and fake mom, Beverly (performed by Bo Derek).

Segal remembers his introduction to Derek was even stranger than to McConaughey, calling it "one of the vital awkward first conferences of an actress ever."

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"She needed to be thrown into costume to shoot the swimming pool scene, getting out of the swimming pool in a bikini," he says. "And so I used to be thrust in entrance of her by a producer, and he says, 'Approve the wardrobe, please.' And so she opened up her gown and flashed her bikini, and naturally, I stored my eyes wanting straight at her eyes. I mentioned, 'Good.' I can't search for and down. In order that was very bizarre."

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The director says he initially didn't assume he "had a shot in hell" in casting the previous mannequin, who earned a Razzie nomination for her efficiency. "I used to be such a giant Blake Edwards fan, and the film 10 put me by means of puberty," he says. "So once we had been serious about who may play Beverly, her title got here up, and we didn't assume we had a shot in hell. However by some means or different, it labored out."

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