Dermot Mulroney.
John Lamparski/WireImageThe size is what matters Dermot Mulroney.
At least that’s his explanation for not getting a major acting job in the year after his starring role in the 1997 romantic comedy My best friend’s wedding.
The 60-year-old Mulroney also played the role of Michael O’Neal Julia Roberts“ Julianne Potter in the hit romantic comedy that grossed almost $300 million at the box office. In the film, Julianne tries to win over Michael, her best friend, after Michael gets engaged to Kimberly Wallace (Cameron Diaz).
However, on the official film poster, Roberts’ face takes up most of the space, while Mulroney is depicted as a small figure on a wedding cake.
“I sat there waiting for the gift of purchase that was supposed to come with being in a popular movie, and instead I didn’t work for probably a year,” Mulroney said The New York Times in a story published April 23. “I put it down to me being so small on the poster, the little guy on the cake. I thought, gosh, if you guys had made me a little taller, maybe I could have gotten a job.”
While Mulroney’s career slowed down immediately afterward My best friend’s wedding, he has done very well in recent years. His next film, Goodbye loverswas a box office flop, but Mulroney found his footing again in the 2002 comedy About Schmidtand then in 2003 when he played Gavin Mitchell Friends.
And it’s not like his appearance on the movie poster meant he would be forgotten in his role. Mulroney said it too Just that he is still approached daily by fans of the film who tell him that they saw it as a child with their grandmothers.
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Mulroney’s latest romantic comedy, Everyone but you, was another box office hit, grossing $219 million on a budget of $25 million. While working on the film, he was able to share his expertise in the genre with others Glen Powellnext to him the male lead Sydney Sweeney.
“I didn’t want him to do what I did, which was to downplay the importance of something that might feel a little easy or a little fluffy when you’re doing it,” he said. “’What these films mean to people,’ I said to Glen, ‘will last for decades.’ It will last until you’re gone, in a way that the other cool stuff he does does , maybe won’t do that. It has a different type of absorption.”
And in case you haven’t checked, Powell actually appears in normal size on the movie poster.