Trivia / The Opposite of Sex

• Actor-Inspired Element: Word of God says that Dedee was originally "more emotional, more fevered, more Gidget" but Christina Ricci felt she would be more thoughtful and do a lot of listening and watching.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Lisa Kudrow read the script and immediately wanted to be part of the film.
  "I loved the script, and I didn’t care how big or small the part was: I wanted to be part of it."
• Contractual Purity: One of many more adult roles that Christina Ricci took to break out of her image as a child star - following The Ice Storm and Buffalo '66.
• Dawson Casting: Just about. Dedee is sixteen, and Christina Ricci was eighteen.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Lucia warns Bill about Dedee and also compares Matt to Tom.
  • A scene between Dedee and Matt after Randy's death - where Matt hopelessly tries to give Randy CPR - and Dede claims it was a suicide.
  • An unhelpful receptionist holds the gang up at the hospital as Dedee goes into labor.
• Playing Against Type: Lisa Kudrow is frequently cast as fun, quirky and sometimes ditzy characters. Here she plays a neurotic, repressed spinster.
• Reality Subtext: Lisa Kudrow said she was attracted to playing Lucia because she found that she had been that uptight in her younger days.

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