1/10/2024 0 Comments While you were sleeping![]() THE FILM EARNED MORE THAN 10 TIMES ITS BUDGET BACK. Although she lost out on that particular award, she took the statue home in 2010 for her role in The Blind Side (she was nominated twice that year, earning a second nod for The Proposal). THE FILM EARNED BULLOCK HER FIRST GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION.īullock’s role in While You Were Sleeping earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Lots of other Chicago-based films have shot there, too, including Meet the Parents and The Lake House (the latter of which also starred Bullock). PETER’S APARTMENT IS LOCATED IN CHICAGO’S SWANKY LAKE POINT TOWER. In order to film the scene where Lucy jumps down on to the tracks to save Peter, they moved to the Sedgewick station for just one day, which conveniently enough includes one section of rail without any live currents, which was much safer for everyone involved! 12. The CTA shut down the Randolph and Wabash station four weekends in a row for filming. THE TRAIN SCENES ALONE TOOK FOUR WEEKEND SHOOTS. Although the CTA had never shut down one of their stations for a film project during the day, they made an exception for While You Were Sleeping. So much of While You Were Sleeping takes place at Lucy’s place of employment-a Chicago train station-that the film required not only the use of the station and its tracks, but use of them during daylight hours (as Lucy spies Peter when he’s on his way to work in the mornings). THE CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY GRANTED THE FILM SPECIAL ACCESS. The sexes were eventually reversed (and the inciting accident was obviously changed) when it was suggested to Sullivan and Lebow that a man following a woman seemed “too predatory.” 10. ![]() Before he can introduce himself, she is hit by a newspaper truck and ends up in a coma. Sullivan and Lebow’s original vision for the film involved a man-a New York City fish salesman, for some reason-who spots a lovely Scandinavian woman in the streets. THE FIRST VERSION OF THE FILM REVERSED THE ROLES. SULLIVAN AND FREDERIC LEBOW.Īlthough the film was a huge hit for the newbie screenwriters, neither of them has penned a produced screenplay since While You Were Sleeping hit theaters. THE FILM WAS THE DEBUT PROJECT OF SCREENWRITING TEAM DANIEL G. Unlike the hospital, every scene that takes place in the Callaghan family abode was lensed on location at a charming turn-of-the-century house in suburban La Grange, Illinois. The film’s hospital scenes were set at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (a real hospital in Chicago), but the necessary sets were rebuilt for ease of filming the movie shot almost three weeks of just hospital-set bits alone. ONLY A FEW OF THE HOSPITAL SCENES WERE FILMED AT AN ACTUAL HOSPITAL. One of those misses? A 6:30 screening of While You Were Sleeping ( in Folds’ created lore, the female half of the story sat just behind the male at the theater, neither one of them the wiser). The song chronicles a long string of missed connections between two unnamed people who are destined to be together. BEN FOLDS REFERENCES THE FILM IN HIS SONG “FROM ABOVE.” The scene was shot along the banks of the Chicago River, complete with hot dog vendor. It’s actually the scene that puts everything in motion: Lucy’s boss Jerry (Jason Bernard) asking her to work on Christmas Day. THE FIRST SCENE SHOT FOR THE FILM DIDN’T INVOLVE THE CALLAGHANS AT ALL. The kid who played the paperboy in the film wasn’t meant to biff his paper toss so spectacularly his fall was an accident and he actually broke his wrist while doing it. Part of Bullock’s appeal to the production team? A little film she had done earlier for Roger Birnbaum, a former Fox president who produced While You Were Sleeping, called Love Potion #9, which helped assure Birnbaum she was ready for the kind of larger part that the film required from her. ![]() SANDRA BULLOCK WAS THE FIRST CAST MEMBER TO JOIN. Fortunately for Bullock, she turned down the role. Roberts was already flying high from the major success of Pretty Woman five years earlier, so the actress seemed like a solid pick for another charming romantic comedy about two very different people brought together by unexpected circumstances. JULIA ROBERTS TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF LUCY MODERATZ. The sweet and satisfying Christmas-set romance turns 20 years old this week, and in celebration of that anniversary, here are some bits of trivia you won’t want to sleep on. After breaking out in 1994’s smash hit Speed, her next role-in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping-helped establish her as the kind of leading lady who didn’t need the distraction of big-time action to be compelling. She should have stayed in the booth! Back in 1995, Sandra Bullock’s career was just kicking into high gear.
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