20 Surprising Secrets About Runaway Bride Revealed
15. The film was a family affair for Marshall, with his son Scott Marshall working as his second unit director, even shooting the film’s opening scene of Roberts on horseback. He also played the hotel clerk who is infatuated with Maggie. His daughter Kathy Marshall played a bridesmaid, Cousin Cindy, and his wife Barbara Sue Wells, who postponed her trip to Australia, also made it in.
“My wife has one line in the dress shop,” Marshall revealed in The Hollywood Interview. “She was in Pretty Woman and got cut out, so I owed her!”
16. Marshall also makes a quick appearance, playing the first baseman during the baseball scene.
17. The so-ugly-it’s-actually-cute “platypus” face that Maggie makes wasn’t in the original script, but Marshall decided to add it in when he saw Roberts do the face for his visiting grandchildren.
18. It’s hard to imagine anything in Runaway Bride being all that controversial, but one scene was actually cut after some test audiences had concerns.
As part of the end credit sequence, a scene showed two women jogging with a dog, and “a handsome boy goes by, and the young girl gives the dog to the grandmother, and she doesn’t want it and dumps it in the garbage,” Marshall revealed to EW.
The reaction, you can imagine, was mixed. “Half the audience, the Something About Mary group, screamed laughing, and the other half was, ‘Why did you kill the dog?”‘ Marshall said, adding he shot four back-up scenes and ultimately used one of those.