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Real Person // Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock // Don't Ruin A Perfectly Good Brunch

Oct 18, 2006 10:47

Title: Don't Ruin A Perfectly Good Brunch
Fandom: Real Person
Characters: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
Prompt: #71; Resign.
Word Count: 911
Rating: PG
Summary: How fast can a cruise ship go, anyway?
Author's Notes: Yeah, I don't know them. This is just how I think it should be.

( I just love the way Keanu looks at me while he's kissing me. )

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danamulder October 19 2006, 09:10:13 UTC

OW! Ow ow ow ow ow ow!

This hurts, but in the you're-a-freaking-amazing-writer way.

*whimpers*

“Does Jan know you jumped ship?” Sandra pointed her fork at him. “Laugh at that pun and die.”

I giggled at that. Probably because I've used that last threat so many times.

I'm having trouble finding words, because I know they had plans to do Speed 2 together (and in a way I wish they had, because crap with Sandy and Keanu together would still be better than crap with Jason Patric, lol), and it must've been really hard for her to know she had to go through with it without him. After the build-up it would have to be.

The last part is really painful though, and even though this is fiction, I always get really uncomfortable for her when it's she that wants him and he's having none of it. Ack.

Wonderful work all the way around.

moore_oaks October 19 2006, 15:16:50 UTC

LOL YES! I sat there for a few minutes saying, "Laugh at that pun and die." and then cracking up. I could so see her doing that and him biting the inside of his cheek because it is SO not the time to be laughing.

That's why I wrote this story, because I knew that had to be an issue for them. If not for one of the reasons I wrote than simply because he left her hanging. I seriously applaud her for doing that movie knowing full well it was going to do worse than Speed because Keanu wasn't in it. I actually saw Speed 2 in the theaters (supported Keandra, even back then!) and I remember my family and I being like, "Who's this guy?"

Good! Making people uncomfortable means I'm portraying things right ... right? LOL

danamulder October 20 2006, 04:57:18 UTC

I have never seen more than a few scenes from Speed 2, and it'll probably stay that way. I've loved Sandy since I was 13, but I could not wrap my brain around Jack and Annie NOT being together. I think my parents saw it once, and Mom said it was pretty bad. So basically I skipped it to save my last film image of them laying in a crashed subway, making out. lol

I think maybe she's still a teensy bit bitter that he left her alone on that one, if the mentions of it in the TLH press mean anything. I think she's mostly over it, but I still think she wishes she hadn't had to do it, much less do it without him beside her.

Yes, making people uncomfortable means you're doing it right. Because life isn't all rainbows and puppies and happily ever afters. Unfortunately.

moore_oaks October 20 2006, 14:49:57 UTC

I wonder if she could have gotten out of it as well, or just decided to stay with it regardless. [ponders]

danamulder October 20 2006, 21:17:40 UTC

I think she would have gotten out of it, but her production deal for Hope Floats somehow depended on her doing that movie. So that's why she did it, and basically I think it was blackmail.

But she did it so she could get HF made, and I'm glad she did, because I like that movie. So I guess we all have to sacrifice something for the things we want sometimes. I don't think the studio got much out of it on the Speed side though.

moore_oaks October 21 2006, 00:47:42 UTC

What? Why would HF people care about Speed2? Details! How did you hear about this?

danamulder October 21 2006, 20:30:53 UTC

That's just it - I can't remember the details. lol

I just remember when Hope Floats came out she said that she was glad she had done Speed 2 if it allowed her to get that movie made.

Okay, I ran a search and there's a Rolling Stone article here that mentions it in the second paragraph. Apparently no one wanted to get behind HF, and she had a production deal with 20th Century Fox, and they said they would if she would do Speed 2. So I think her passion for HF more or less forced her into Speed 2. Otherwise, I honestly think she would have said thanks, but no thanks.

moore_oaks October 21 2006, 20:38:35 UTC

Ah ha! Thank you. It was a good read; nice to know that Sandra actually semi-regrets some of those not-so-great movies she was ine.

danamulder October 21 2006, 20:52:55 UTC

Oh, yeah. It's always been obvious she regrets Speed 2, especially. But I'm sure all actors have movies they wish they hadn't done or that they aren't proud of. I guess like anything else in life, sometimes you have to do something you don't want to do to get where you want to be. She's done more good movies than bad, really, so it's worked out, thank goodness.

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