History Trivia / TheWitchesOfEastwick

** Creator/DarylHannah turned down a role in the film for "ethical" reasons.
** Creator/KathleenTurner was considered for Jane. Creator/KimCattrall auditioned for the role.
** A life size animatronic puppet was made of Creator/VeronicaCartwright for the cherry pit vomiting scene. It was quite a technical achievement, with how it could realistically thrash around and spew large amounts of vomit at once. But most shots involving it had to be cut because test audiences found it too disgusting.

* NamesTheSame: Two characters are called [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer and Marge]]. Oh, and they're married.

** Cher had Alexandra's line "Big deal, it's not like it's gonna get us on Johnny Carlson" changed to David Letterman, because she disliked Johnny Carlson.

** A life size animatronic puppet was made of Veronica Cartwright for the cherry pit vomiting scene. It was quite a technical achievement, with how it could realistically thrash around and spew large amounts of vomit at once. But most shots involving it had to be cut because test audiences found it too disgusting.

* CreatorBacklash: George Miller took umbrage with his first exposure to Hollywood. He claims that his suggestions to downsize his personal needs, such as his own trailer, informed studio heads that he was a pushover and would kowtow to their more outlandish demands. The process therefor became much less enjoyable because it meant he had to "get mean" to get what he wanted.

** According to Creator/GeorgeMiller, producer Jon Peters suddenly decided he wanted aliens to appeared on the movie, even though it didn't make sense with the story. Miller thinks that Peters was influenced by the box office success of ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. He even showed up one day on set with a stunt man dressed as an alien and told Miller to put him on a scene, any scene. Miller and Creator/JackNicholson then left the set until Peters gave up on his fixation.

** Creator/AnjelicaHuston auditioned for Alex.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Is Daryl ''actually'' the Devil, or [[EpilepticTrees was he literally brought into existence]] (complete with his own delusions of being the Devil) by the Witches, drawing on their subconscious? It sure is interesting that he can waltz [[TemptingFate into a church]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice in the middle of a service]] without suffering any HolyBurnsEvil effects, suggesting that whatever the cosmology of the Eastwick universe might be, it's not quite the conventional angels-and-demons deal…
** Assuming he is ''a'' Devil, is he {{Satan}}, or is he being literal when he describes himself as a [[TheLegionsOfHell “''little'' devil”]]? If the latter, a whole new light may be shined on his tantrum about no one ever paying him any attention or respect.
** Is Daryl's monologue in the church about “God making mistakes” just so much angry, disjointed rambling? An attempt to corrupt, or at the very least offend, the Christians in attendance? Or [[SatanIsGood a genuine window]] into the way Dary/the Devil sees himself as the hero of his own story, a [[TheDevilIsALoser poor sod]] stuck in a CrapsackWorld run by [[OmniscientMoralityLicense a petty and fallible God]]?
** Similarly, how truthful is he when he claims he loves, or at least wants to learn to love, the Witches? What about when he throws a childlike tantrum about their not paying attention to him — is that just frustration that they're slowing down his EvilPlan, or is he genuinely a [[AttentionWhore pathological attention-seeker]] in constant need of validation? (Whether that latter interpretation would make him more or less unsympathetic is, of course, up to the viewer.)

** Creator/KathleenTurner was considered for Jane.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to Creator/GeorgeMiller, producer Jon Peters suddenly decided he wanted aliens to appeared on the movie, even though it didn't make sense with the story. Miller thinks that Peters was influenced by the box office success of ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. He even showed up one day on set with a stunt man dressed as an alien and told Miller to put him on a scene, any scene. Miller and Creator/JackNicholson then left the set until Peters gave up on his fixation.

* CreatorBacklash: George Miller too umbrage with his first exposure to Hollywood. He claims that his suggestions to downsize his personal needs, such as his own trailer, informed studio heads that he was a pushover and would kowtow to their more outlandish demands. The process therefor became much less enjoyable because it meant he had to "get mean" to get what he wanted.

** Creator/DarylHannah turned down a role in the film for "ethical" reasons.