FILM 1546: GREEN CARD
TRIVIA: First American film for and
first film shot in the USA of French actor Gérard Depardieu.
Star Andie MacDowell was
totally surprised when Peter Weir
asked her to gain weight. She had always been asked to do the opposite.
The production of the picture was
shelved for a year due to the filming schedule of French star Gérard Depardieu who was
not available for around twelve months. In the meantime, director Peter Weir went and made Dead Poets Society (1989)
instead.
The movie is actually an Australian
film, co-financed with Australian money, but without any Australian cast, and
not filmed at all in Australia, but with only an Australian
writer-producer-director Peter Weir,
and with limited Australian crew, such as cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson, but with
the film's post-production though conducted in Australia.
According to Eleanor Quin at the
Turner Classic Movies website, "true facts from [Gerard] Depardieu's life
were . . . integrated into the script, including his fondness for prostitutes
and his multiple tattoos".
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