Some great behind-the-scene anecdotes from 'Fried Green Tomatoes.'
For more than three decades, “Fried Green Tomatoes” has endured as one of the South’s favorite films thanks to the touching story, larger-than-life characters and authentic depiction of the region thanks to the beloved source material.
Avnet said the movie was completely inspired by Flagg’s book, and his first thought/image for the film when he was reading the book was imagining a “ghost train” speeding through the town of Whistle Stop. It became the central image of the movie for him, when Kathy Bates arrives in the town at the beginning, as she hears something nobody else hears.
Tandy had just finished chemotherapy before shooting the movie. Avnet said she had no hair and wore a wig. “She had an appreciation of life that was enormous. It comes out in her performance. It came out in being with her.” Avnet said Mary-Louise Parker insisted she was not athletic, but when it was time to shoot the baseball scene, she rose to the occasion. “You can’t train somebody to be as bad as Mary-Louise is,” he said, but Avnet praised actors like Parker for performing under pressure when the cameras started rolling.
One of the things that initially attracted Avnet to Flagg’s book was the way it depicted racial relationships, in terms that were not stereotypical. He said he spent a lot of time with author Alex Haley before his death , and said, “When he would describe the world to me, it was just different than the way we’d seen in the media. And I was very interested to try and portray it and to try and do justice to what Alex would tell me in the stories, images and feeling.
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