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By David Hudson. MoMI presents a conversation with the director about his new memoir and a screening of A Room with a View. Did You See This? Linklater famously fought against marketing the movie with a yellow smiley face because the fad was too , and already fading by That gives a sense about how much the detail of time means to him. It was not an enjoyable experience. The fax lines were burning. He was a film student at the University of Texas in Austin and went out drinking with his girlfriend one night.

And Matthew goes, 'I'm gonna go down and talk to this guy. Then: Giovanni's twin sister Marissa Ribisi played the cute redhead that caught the attention of Matthew McConaughey's character in 'Dazed and Confused.

Now: Ribisi appeared in several films throughout the '90s, including the romantic comedy 'Some Girl' which she cowrote. In the same interview with Entertainment Weekly, Obst said she worried that McConaughey was too old to star opposite Hudson. At the time, Hudson was 23 and McConaughey was Jason O. Austin, Texas, U. Wiley Ramsey Wiggins November 6, is an American game designer and film actor. Though Beck has not issued any public statements on his split since calling it quits, he did describe the divorce as "heartbreaking" in a interview with The New Yorker.

According to the documents, the couple cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for going their separate ways. That's her in the blue and red striped tank top in the clip above; she walks by at the mark.

McConaughey's now-signature character was originally only supposed to have a few lines, but Wooderson got more screen time when one of the hired actors had some trouble fitting in with the rest of the cast. In a interview on WTF with Marc Maron , Linklater revealed that his dad and McConaughey's father played football together at the University of Houston, both competing at the defensive end position in the early s. McConaughey's dad, Jim, would go on to be drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 27th round of the NFL draft they were a bit longer back then , but never played in the league.

While many of the movie's cast members became recognizable Hollywood actors, Wiley Wiggins—who played Mitch Kramer—had a very quiet acting career after the film.

In fact, at least three of the characters' last names—Wooderson, Floyd, and Slater—were lifted directly from Linklater's own Huntsville High School, which became the basis of a defamation lawsuit for the real-life trio in According to the real Wooderson, Floyd, and Slater, the movie resulted in an onslaught of, well, mostly kids wanting to party with them all the time.

The case was eventually tossed.