Trivia / Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

• As Himself: The Lady Chablis and Jerry Spence, the hairdresser, are played by themselves.
• Box Office Bomb: Budgeted at $30 million, the film only made $25.1 million, has a 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 57/100 on Metacritic. And all this despite the source novel being a best-seller and winning the Pulitzer.
• The Danza: John Cusack plays John Kelso.
• Fake American: Jude Law playing the southern boy Billy Hanlon.
• Harpo Does Something Funny: The Lady Chablis was allowed to ad-lib her lines.
• One-Take Wonder: Clint Eastwood actually called The Lady Chablis this onset.
• Real-Life Relative: Clint Eastwood's daughter Alison played Mandy Nicholls.
• What Could Have Been: Edward Norton was offered the role of John Kelso.

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