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- John Cusack shared that working along with his sister Joan Cusack on the 1989 movie ‘Say Something’ was a “fairly simple gig”
- Whereas the actor performed the long-lasting protagonist Lloyd Dobler, Joan portrayed his on-screen older sister, Constance Dobler
- “She runs me over like a Mack Truck and so they say print it, after which it is everybody’s favourite factor within the film,” John quipped
John Cusack shared that working along with his sister Joan Cusack on 1989’s Say Something was an easy expertise.
Whereas reminiscing on the times of filming the romantic comedy alongside costar Ione Skye and director Cameron Crowe, the 59-year-old actor opened up about what it was like having his real-life older sister painting his character Lloyd Dobler’s older sister, Constance Dobler.
“It is simple to work along with your sister,” John mentioned throughout a Nov. 30 screening of the movie at New York Metropolis’s Kings Theatre. “What occurs is she’ll are available after which I am within the scene together with her. She runs me over like a Mack Truck and so they say print it, after which it is everybody’s favourite factor within the film.”
“It is a fairly simple gig,” he added. “I simply get flat like Wile E. Coyote and everybody thinks I am a genius.”
The 1408 star went on to clarify that a variety of their sibling dynamic had the possibility to shine by within the movie.
“Joanie was really extra optimistic than I used to be,” John recalled. “She would at all times inform me to get in an excellent temper, however I believe it was written that his sister went by a troublesome breakup and all that.”
Together with their joint look in Say Something, Molly Ringwald revealed throughout an April Breakfast Membership reunion at a C2E2 2025 panel in Chicago — alongside Anthony Michael Corridor, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson — that the well-known siblings have been really in rivalry to play Bender and Allison within the 1985 iconic teen movie.
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“From my understanding, John Cusack was gonna play Bender and Joan Cusack was going to play Allison,” the 16 Candles star, 57, mentioned of the roles that in the end went to Nelson and Sheedy.
Whereas the brother-sister duo didn’t find yourself becoming a member of the group of highschool misfits, each have since gone on to main film success.
John went on to star in Excessive Constancy, Identification and the Scorching Tub Time Machine franchise, whereas Joan earned two Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for Working Woman and In & Out along with starring in Addams Household Values, College of Rock and the TV sequence Shameless.
