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- Katherine Schaffstall
- Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams / Dirk Diggler. Wahlberg stars in the film as teenage busboy Eddie, who adopts the persona of Dirk when he becomes a porn star sensation.
- Julianne Moore as Maggie / Amber Waves. Moore portrays Maggie, who is heavily involved in the production of Jack’s films and a porn actress under the stage name Amber Waves.
- Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner. Reynolds stars as Jack, a porn filmmaker who takes Eddie under his wing after meeting the busboy while he’s working at a nightclub.
- Don Cheadle as Buck Swope. Cheadle appears in the film as Buck Swope, a television store owner and porn star who is obsessed with cowboys and the Old West.
Amber Waves : [filming Dirk's first love scene] Let me just check on something. Amber Waves : This is a giant cock. Amber Waves : [screams] Oh, I don't want to do this any more. Honey, I can't. Let's just? Let's have fun now! Let's just go and go and go, because it's over. There's just too many things, too many things, too many things. Too many ...
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- Wahlberg Initially Didn’T Want to Be in The Movie, Because of Showgirls.
- Burt Reynolds Disliked Paul Thomas Anderson and The Movie.
- Reynolds and Anderson Nearly Came to Physical blows.
- Anderson Thinks A Good Porn Star Name Should Have Two “G”S and One “K” in it.
- The Studio Had A Problem with Multitasking Actors.
- There Are No Character Arcs.
- Ron Jeremy Consulted on The Movie.
- Alfred Molina Had Never Heard “Jessie’s Girl” Or “Sister Christian.”
- Anderson’s Dad—Plus Robert Downey Jr.’s Father—Influenced The Firecracker Scene.
- The Film’S Ending Is Based on Raging Bull.
At this stage in Mark Wahlberg’s career, he had a hit song under the name Marky Mark, had done The Basketball Diaries—which is how Anderson discovered him—and was basically an underwear model. In Grantland’s oral history, Wahlberg explained why he didn’t want to read the script. “Showgirlshad just come out. That movie was a disaster. And you know, ...
It’s no secret the pair didn’t get along on set. Reynolds, who played porn filmmaker Jack Horner, recently told GQ why their personalities clashed. “I think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done].” He also told The Guardian that he turned down acting in Anderson’...
Everybody on the set knew Reynolds had a temper, and everybody knew the director and Reynolds didn’t quite get along. But there was an incident when the two almost got into a physical fight. One day on set Reynolds felt Anderson was disrespecting him. The film’s first AD, John Wildermuth, tells this story: “Burt got so frustrated he pulled Paul out...
The director told NPRhe’s not sure how he came up with the name Dirk Diggler, but for some reason he wrote the name down on an index card when he was 17 years old. “I mean, I think a good porn name has to have two Gs in it. It just—it just looks good and it sounds good for a good porn name. And you know, a K is pretty important, too. So you know, I...
The original cut Anderson turned in to New Line Cinema would’ve been rated NC-17, so in order to get an R rating, he had to reedit some of the sex scenes. Their main issue? “They had a problem with humping and talking at the same time,” he told NPR. “And essentially it boiled to when they said ‘She's humping there and she’s talking. Can you pick on...
Instead of following the template of having the characters change and be different people at the end of the film, Anderson decided against it. “That doesn’t really happen here,” he told Indiewirein 1997. “Everybody is the same. Maybe if there’s a change, it’s like one degree. Normally you see a 90-degree change in a movie. To me, they’re all pretty...
According to Grantland’s oral history, Anderson spent a year hanging out with legendary porn star Ron Jeremy, who’s listed in the Guinness Book of World Recordsas starring in the most porn films—2000 of them. “Nobody knew who Paul was or anything and Ronnie just, on good faith, immersed him in our business,” recalled adult film actress Veronica Har...
The London-born actor played drug dealer Rahad Jackson (supposedly based on Eddie Nash) and during the firecracker scene he sings along to two 1980s classics—Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” and Night Ranger’s "Sister Christian." "When I said yes to the part, they sent me those two songs ... I knew neither of them because neither was released in ...
Anderson’s father, Ernie, created a character named Ghoulardi for a Cleveland TV show, on which he’d sometimes set off fireworks on-air. The firecracker scene was also inspired by Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 film, Putney Swope. “If you watch Putney Swope ... there’s a wonderful piece of background action where a character throws a firecracker off in a...
At the conclusion of the movie, Dirk Diggler recites his character’s dialogue while staring at himself in a mirror. He finishes with the quote, “I’m a star,” whereas in Raging Bull, Robert De Niro (as Jake LaMotta), quotes On the Waterfront and repeats, “I’m the boss.” “I was halfway through the scene when I realized I was writing something that re...
- Garin Pirnia
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American period drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s.
- $43.1 million
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- $15 million
- Michael Penn
Oct 10, 2022 · Julianne Moore and Mark Wahlberg in ‘Boogie Nights’ (Shutterstock) Like the real John Holmes, Dirk develops a dangerous cocaine habit, one that leaves him unable to perform. It results in a ...
Oct 11, 2022 · By Richard Fink. Published Oct 11, 2022. Boogie Nights was released 25 years ago in theaters, take a look back at its road to the big screen, its impact, and what makes it great. New Line Cinema ...
