Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon are sharing extra about how their film Fever Pitch was initially supposed to finish.
In a preview clip for the Oct. 10 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress, 49, and The Tonight Show host, 50, reminisce in regards to the film's unique ending and their experiences filming in the course of the World Series.
In the rom-com, Fallon performs Ben Wrightman, a younger trainer obsessive about the Boston Red Sox, who falls in love with Lindsey Meeks, portrayed by Barrymore. The movie culminates with (spoiler alert!) the Red Sox making a historic comeback from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Yankees within the ALCS, adopted by a sweep of the Cardinals within the World Series.
However, within the unique ending, Barrymore reveals that the Red Sox have been purported to lose since they hadn’t gained in actual life in 86 years. The movie was initially meant to conclude with the celebrities' characters dressing as outdated folks sooner or later when the Sox lastly win.
“As we're filming, this is baseball history; as we're filming this film, they make it into the wild card, then they make it into the playoffs. It's the most magical year,” Fallon says of the sports activities magic unfolding alongside filming.
“And we happen to have cameras at every single one of these games,” Barrymore continues. “So we were flying down to the final game of the World Series, and Fox Sports said, ‘We'll let you use our cameras. You cannot bring movie cameras to the finale.’ By the way, my boyfriend at the time, Fabrizio Moretti, is watching the series finale of the Red Sox, and there we are on the field kissing.”
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Fallon provides that on the time, nobody knew they have been filming the film, and they'd requested Fox to not air any footage of them on the recreation collectively as a result of they deliberate to make use of it within the movie. “And they go, ‘Yeah, sure.’ ”
He goes on to clarify that the printed community in the end obtained nervous and minimize to him and Barrymore on the mound after successful the sport, the place their characters shared a kiss.
“I still have the sand from the mound,” Barrymore says.
Of his memento, Fallon says, “My baseball hat that I had made filthy because any real baseball fan has a dirty hat that they've had since high school. It's disgusting and has salt stains. That hat is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.”
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During their catch-up, the hosts additionally talked about Fallon's latest fiftieth birthday. Fallon shared how, as a substitute of getting an enormous get together, he simply needed to be together with his household. He described waking as much as a Pee-wee Herman breakfast his spouse Nancy Juvonen made him, which he hadn't had since he was 12 years outdated. It consisted of pancakes with fried eggs for eyeballs, together with a faux Mr. T cereal that does not exist anymore.
Then, Fallon recounted how how is household gave him a present, which he later realized had a particular nod to Fever Pitch.
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“When I grew up, my dad had a jukebox and he got it for free from the VFW because it was broken,” he recalled. “My dad fixed it. And so we had a jukebox in our house and then eventually it just broke again and then we just gave it away or threw it out or something.”
“Two years ago, my friend calls Nancy and goes, ‘If you want a good gift for Jimmy, I think I saw his dad's jukebox at an electronics store.’ And, and she's like, what? And so she buys the jukebox and makes it working again,” he added.
“My dad's handwriting is on all the 45s. Is that wild for real?” he continued. “And, and one of the, one of the songs on there is, ‘Oh Babe What Would You Say' by Hurricane Smith, what we used in the movie Fever Pitch. And it turned out to be my wife and I's, one of our wedding songs.”
Fallon's episode of The Drew Barrymore Show will air on Thursday, Oct. 10.
