Will Ferrell Recalls Filming ‘Bewitched’ and When He First Realized Nicole Kidman Was a Movie Star – Hollywood Reporter
Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter”What the f*** just happened,” Ferrell said after completing a scene with his co-star.
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Lexi Carson
Stephen Colbert recalls when he and Will Ferrell knew Nicole Kidman was a movie star.
Ferrell stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday to promote his latest film, You’re Cordially Invited. But while he was on, the two reminisced about their experience shooting their beloved movie, Bewitched, which was released 20 years ago. Colbert was a writer on the project and also played the character Stu Robison. Colbert explains how he and the other people on set watched a “meet-cute” moment between Ferrell’s character, Darrin, and Kidman’s Samantha, which was the first time their characters acted together.
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“When the scene’s over, do you remember what you came and said to us?” Colbert asked Ferrell, to which Ferrell replied: “No, I have no idea.”
“You came over to us because when the scene started and when Nora [Ephron] said, ‘Action,’ we saw why Nicole Kidman was a movie star because the moment she called ‘Action,’ she flipped some switch. She became the most alluring and beautiful woman. She’s a beautiful woman, but something preternatural happened.”
Ferrell agreed, and Colbert described his response: “We did the scene and all of us are in a fever of desire for the character that she’s playing and we can barely breathe. And none of us were saying to each other because that’s a weird feeling to have on a set. And you walked over and you went, ‘What the just fuck just happened out there?’ And we all went, ‘I don’t know.’”
“I couldn’t remember any of my lines. I couldn’t get out of her eyes. What the fuck just happened?,” Colbert recalls Ferrell saying to him.
Ferrell then joked: “It was like an alien being had come and told us ‘Everything’s going to be OK.’”
Despite their fond memories, Bewitched received poor reviews and currently has a 23 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
And Ferrell joked: “When people ask Nicole Kidman about the pantheon, the body of work, she always lists Bewitched as No. 1.”Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every daySign up for THR news straight to your inbox every daySubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSend us a tip using our anonymous form.
