Neatly, isn’t this the sweetest change.
Melanie Lynskey reconnected with her “Sweet Home Alabama” kids by the use of social media within the feedback division of a publish honoring the rom-com.
“@msmelanielynskey ❤️ proud to be one of your kiddos in this film. My first job!” former kid famous person Colin Ford wrote on Leisure Weekly’s web page.
The “Yellowjackets” actress answered: “I knoooow and you were so sweet and did such a good job! @kelseylowenthal too! 💖.”
Lynskey’s on-screen daughter, performed through Kelsey Lowenthal, upcoming joined in.
“Awww thank you!🥰,” she gushed. “Best memories of my life were during this set!”
She went directly to tone a sequel with “the kids all grown up,” during which Lynskey stated the theory could be “a dream.”
Lynskey played Lurlynn in the 2002 rom-com, which additionally starred Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Park, Fred Ward, Jean Impish and Ethan Embry.
In a single well-known scene, Witherspoon’s Melanie Smooter exclaimed “you have a baby, in a bar!” when she reunites with former highschool friend Lurlynn, however Lynskey clarified that Ford and Lowenthal weren’t the infant actors in that individual montage.
“Neither of them are the baby, they were both sweet and talented little kids who played my other kids, and they’ve grown into sweet and talented adults,” she defined to a fan this presen. “Adore them both.”
In 2021, the “Don’t Look Up” actress unfolded about her while at the prepared.
“I remember early on Reese telling me that my accent had better be good. She’s like, ‘I’m from the south.’ And not like in a nasty way. She just was like, ‘You know, you got to get it right because it’s very specific.’ And I was like, ‘I think I’ve gotten it right, but I really hope so,’” Lynskey recalled to Us Weekly on the while. “She really cared about things being authentic and she approved of my accent once I did it. She was like, ‘Good job.’”
“I love Reese. I’m so impressed by her as a human, being, the work that she does as an advocate for children, the person she is, the way she is uplifting other women and making women’s stories told, her production company [Hello Sunshine] is just incredible,” she persevered. “The books she’s optioning. I’m just like, I — already at that point in time, 20 years ago — I was like, ‘This is a woman to watch.’ She’s just such a strong person who has just always been so fully herself and she hasn’t had a misstep. Her career has just been going [up and up] for all these years. And who does that? It’s incredible.”
The solid would profit from their downtime pace operating in combination too.
“On the weekends we would all get together and have parties and cook together and hang out together. It was a really fun group. Everyone really liked each other,” she recalled. “We had some pretty crazy parties on that movie. A hotel room in Atlanta just playing games with each other. It was a very fun set.”
Years nearest, Lynskey would even repeat her bar scene from the movie next wrapping the Justin Lengthy-directed comedy, “Lady of the Manor.”
“I think I brought my daughter to a bar,” she stated of her daughter, whom she stocks with husband Jason Ritter. “We had this sort of crew party through filming, and it was at a bar. Yeah, she was there at the bar!”
