Hollywood history is filled with happy accidents. Directors leave projects and are replaced – for good, and for evil. Actors get replaced in major roles, sometimes even after they have filmed scenes (as when Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz on "Back to the Future"). But I don’t know if I have heard a story quite like this one, which explains how Clerks director Kevin Smith thought he was pitching a role to legendary "Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin… but was not.
Kevin Smith is making the rounds promoting his new coming-of-age comedy "The 4:30 Movie," a sweet movie Smith filmed in the New Jersey movie theater that he owns and operates. When he stopped by CinemaBlend’s official ReelBlend podcast, he started talking about the pivotal role that "Tusk" and "The Umbrella Academy" co-star Genesis Rodriguez plays in the new film. Only, even though Smith has a history with Rodriguez, she originally wasn’t supposed to be in this film.
Kevin Smith is making the rounds promoting his new coming-of-age comedy "The 4:30 Movie," a sweet movie Smith filmed in the New Jersey movie theater that he owns and operates. When he stopped by CinemaBlend’s official ReelBlend podcast, he started talking about the pivotal role that "Tusk" and "The Umbrella Academy" co-star Genesis Rodriguez plays in the new film. Only, even though Smith has a history with Rodriguez, she originally wasn’t supposed to be in this film.
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00:00Yeah, she and she fucking crushes. I love Genesis man. Like yeah, she was in Tusk with us and
00:06Absolutely brilliant. I you know, she was in Yogo's or so I owe her as well, but
00:12I've loved being able to work with her and and this happened like she came into this
00:20Like totally by accident
00:23She I was I was in in Atlantic Islands. We were about a
00:27A week and a half away from shooting the movie and
00:32I was hiking in them every morning and stuff and it's hot humidity of the summer
00:37So it was real hot and went up blazing. So I'm like sweating shit off and I get a message on my
00:43text on my phone
00:46From George RR Martin, I assume
00:49He's been here to the theater. He did a show here and stuff. So he said hey, how you doing?
00:55And I had just seen
00:57An article that he had went out and saw Barbie or something like that. And I said, I'm great man
01:03I saw Barbie too, and I loved it
01:04And then the person I assumed was George RR Martin wrote back like yeah, I get Barbie was good
01:11I'm gonna be in New Jersey this summer and I was like, oh great
01:15I said, why don't you come be in the 430 movie is a new movie?
01:20I'm making like it's at the theater. So come be in it and
01:24And
01:25Person wrote back. Do you know who this is?
01:29and I was like, of course and then I was like do I and I looked and in my phone George RR Martin is
01:37GRRM as he is in most places
01:40But Genesis like is listed. She listed herself as
01:45GR
01:47So whole time I thought I was talking to George RR Martin
01:51And I figure this out and I'm like, of course, I know this is you Jenny absolutely
01:57Yes, come be in the movie
01:59So I had no part for Genesis and you know
02:02She was just like it are there lines and is it what how many scenes and I was like, absolutely
02:06I was like, I'll send it to you
02:08So when I got off the text with her suddenly, I was like, oh shit. I got to create a scene for Genesis
02:15And a character never mind a fucking scene like how do I weave this person into the script when we're like a week and a half
02:22ready to
02:23We can have from going
02:25So suddenly I was like, oh she could be like Boba Fett to like manager Mike's Darth Vader
02:30she's just always in the background and shit and then I
02:33could give her like a big splashy analog scene to do and so
02:38Honestly, that's my favorite scene in the movie
02:41To death but that that scene
02:44My heart skips a beat it wouldn't have existed. Just like that
02:49The Ben Affleck scene and Jane Sala Bob wouldn't have existed were not for you and the interview you did with Ben Affleck years ago
02:56That scene wouldn't have existed if I didn't mistake
03:00Genesis Rodriguez for George RR Martin and it makes
03:04The movie like when if that imagine that movie without that fucking scene it would work
03:08But like that's that's everyone most people talk about like I'm saw a picture of a dude online
03:13Hadn't even seen the movie yet. Got the tattoo movies. Let make life make sense. I was like, bro
03:19I hope you like the fucking flick
03:21Down later on he wrote that he did so that line that scene wouldn't have existed but not for a fucking accident
03:29mistake
03:31Turned into a wonderful opportunity