On Tuesday night, ABC aired The Happy Days of Garry Marshall, a heartwarming tribute to the late filmmaker who helmed classics like Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries. Among those who turned up to swap stories about Marshall were Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, who took a detour to share delightful memories about working with each other.
Hathaway was particularly gleeful when remembering how the prim Oscar winner sometimes would swear up a storm on set. “My favorite memory of working with Julie Andrews, and I think the best memory, is whenever she would curse,” Hathaway said with a laugh, per Entertainment Tonight. “It was delightful! I would feel terrible, but I would kind of pray for her to flub lines.”
Andrews, meanwhile, doesn’t recall swearing at all. “It depends what cursing you mean,” she said. “When did I do that? I’m sorry, but I’m out to lunch about swearing, I guess.”
Andrews played Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries, the elegant monarch of the fictional country of Genovia. As she revealed during the Garry Marshall tribute, the fictional country’s devotion to pears was actually her idea, which Marshall decided to weave into the story line. “He was so sweetly curious,” she said, adding that Marshall gave her “the opportunity to make it a world that I felt good about. It was so sweet and lovely.”
Though she doesn’t remember swearing on the Princess Diaries set, Andrews has admitted in the past to cursing up a storm at work—but only when the occasion calls for it. In her 2019 memoir, Home Work, she recalled filming a dangerous flying sequence for Mary Poppins when she got dropped by one of the stage managers who was in charge of the wires that lifted her into the air.
“I have to admit, I let fly a stream of colorful expletives,” Andrews wrote. “Fortunately, I wasn’t harmed because the balanced counterweights did their job and broke my fall, but I landed hard and was quite shaken.”
Thankfully, Princess Diaries didn’t include the same kind of stunts. Hathaway did, however, reflect on the classic scene where she twirls and falls on the bleachers, an unplanned stumble that ended up staying in the film’s final cut. “[Marshall] was never afraid of the spontaneous moment,” Hathaway said. “If it was good, it was in the movie.”
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