Trivia / Blast from the Past

• The Cast Showoff: Adam's language skills give Brendan Fraser a chance to show off his fluent French.
• Creator Killer: Blast from the Past was one of two Brendan Fraser films in 1999 that derailed director Hugh Wilson's career for the next five years, with Dudley Do-Right being the other (Fraser himself was saved by The Mummy). It also led to writer Bill Kelly not writing again until Enchanted in 2007.
• Fake American: Brendan Fraser is of course Canadian.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Sissy Spacek likewise (outside of her most famous role as Carrie White) was heavily associated with gritty dramas. It's unusual to see her in a comedy playing a demure Shrinking Violet of a housewife.
  • Alicia Silverstone was often playing Rich Bitches at this point in her career, so playing a jaded Deadpan Snarker was a different turn.
• Star-Derailing Role: While better received than her previous two films, Batman & Robin and Excess Baggage, Alicia Silverstone would none-the-less, never have another leading role in a major motion picture after Blast from the Past underperformed commercially.
• Those Two Actors: Christopher Walken and Alicia Silverstone had previously starred in Excess Baggage and would later be in Gods Behaving Badly.
• Typecasting: Brendan Fraser had played a similar Fish out of Temporal Water in George of the Jungle. In both films, his love interest is a blonde.
• Underage Casting: Brendan Fraser was actually five years younger than Adam is said to be, although a bellhop does say he's Older Than They Look.

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