4. What is Lucy’s first choice? Meg Ryan. “We pitched the film to Meg Ryan’s production company and were hoping that she would be interested in starring in it,” Lebow told Buzzfeed UK. “Her head of development said to us, ‘First of all, why do you want to do this movie when Meg is almost in a coma?’ And second of all, you guys are creepy! It’s kind of predatory that this guy is telling the family of a comatose woman that he’s engaged to her. Why not flip the story around and have the woman make up the story, so it’s no longer predatory and it’s funny.”
5. After Ryan died, Lebow revealed, “The person who was originally going to do this movie was Demi Moore.” “They couldn’t agree on a deal and it fell apart.” He also revealed that Julia Roberts had taken over the role, adding: “A lot of big actresses have taken over the role.”
6. Although “Speed” had just been released the previous year, “WYWS” was Sandra Bullock’s first romantic comedy and the film that secured her status as one of Hollywood’s top actresses.
According to LeBow, Bullock contacted the studio about appearing in the film after reading the script on the set of Speed, and LeBow claimed that “Sandra contacted the studio and told them this was exactly what she wanted to do, and that she could relate to a lot of things, especially loneliness and the importance of family.”
