4/1/2023 0 Comments Little fires everywhere castShe definitely used a hair dryer to make her eyeliner extra smudgy. Actually Kirsten Dunst circa any year seems like she could burn some ish down. If you needed to cast a deceptively cute teen who you could also envision burning her family home down, Kirsten Dunst circa 1997 was your girl. Could he have convincingly played a nice, hot jock that you’d definitely risk your friendship with his brother for? You better believe it. Heath Ledger as Tripp RichardsonĬould 1997 Heath Ledger convincingly speak with an American accent? Nope. There honestly isn’t any other actress from the late 90’s who I can imagine playing picture perfect, Yale bound, total disaster in secret, Lexie Richardson. ![]() No one wears those crunchy ramen noodle curls like our man, JT. I don’t know if the people who cast actor Gavin Lewis as Moody Richardson meant to cast Justin Timberlake’s doppelganger, but well done. Lexie Underwood played Pearl Warren perfectly, but do you know who would have graced our tiny TVs from the depths of giant wooden armoire? Brandy. Something tells me that 2020 is the year Hanes underwear gets its groove back. Joshua Jackson got all of our hearts racing in his tighty-whities in a way that only 1997 Greg Kinnear could have pulled off. Just like any rich white mom on the brink of the Clinton scandal. She would have played Elena Richardson as both perfectly put together and unhinged. Reese Witherspoon has the privileged, white savior, PTA mom schtick locked down tight these days but, back in 1997 Michelle Pfieffer would have been all anyone could talk about. I’d set up the double VCR to record that. Imagine her testifying in the courtroom at Bebe’s trial. You know who would have nailed that in 1997? Angela mother-effing Basset. In 2020, Kerry Washington plays single-mother/artist with a secret past, Mia Warren, like someone who would simultaneously terrify me and make me want to impress her. Who would have played these roles if it had actually been filmed back when AOL came on a CD-Rom? From the Alanis Morissette infused soundtrack, to tartan curtains and butterfly hair clips, Little Fires Everywhere is a time capsule of our youth.Īs perfectly cast as Little Fires Everywhere is – and it truly is, Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington are electric on screen together – as a person who was 13 in 1997, I had a thought. ![]() It’s also a giant dose of nostalgia for anyone who was a teenager in the late 1990s. Hulu’s television adaptation of Celeste Ng’s best selling book, Little Fires Everywhere, is a truly fantastic exposition of prejudice, wealth, privilege, and motherhood.
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