

"We got along quite well in the small amount of time I did work on Casper," he explained.

But in a recent interview with E! News, Sawa credited Ricci with getting him cast as Scott. Said Sawa, "I was the only 15-year-old boy with the cast of the hottest young girls in town, so it was a lot of fun."Ĩ. "She got out front and the other girls weren't happy about it," Todd spilled. While Sawa politely said "no comment," Birch wasn't so tight-lipped, revealing his Casper co-star Ricci won the contest. "There was some kind of contest, I remember they said, 'Get with Devon.'" We were like,' What does 'get with' mean?!'" Todd recalled.ħ. But, like, didn't everyone have a thing for the Casper star in the '90s? Young stars Birch, Ricci, Moore, and Hoffman had a bet going about who would "get with" Sawa while filming, according to Todd. All four lead girls had a "wild crush" on Devon Sawa, Birch admitted. The twoincarnations of the quartet were never on set at the same time.Ħ. For the final week of filming in Savannah, the adult counterparts were brought in. King revealed that Demi Moore (who played Samantha and was a producer on the film), Rosie O'Donnell (Roberta), Melanie Griffith (Teeny) and Rita Wilson (Chrissy) watched footage of the girls' performances to inform their own takes on the characters.ģ. Samantha was based on her sister, Sandra, and King joked she herself was "everyone but Chrissy."Ģ. The four younger versions of the girls were cast first and began with Christina Ricci landing the part of Roberta. It really was a true-to-life thing for me." "And my parents were also getting divorced at that time.
NOW AND THEN MOVIE
Marlene King wrote the movie when she was 10 years old and said it was about her group of friends growing up. "This really was my childhood.I had some best friends, we did séances in the graveyard, we loved a good mystery," King said during a Q&A at a 20th anniversary screening of the movie in 2015.

NOW AND THEN DRIVER
Crushing anxiety is the driver of “Now and Then,” where the past catches up with the present and threatens everyone’s carefully constructed adult personas.Kimberly Wright/New Line/Kobal/Shutterstockġ. The secrets keep piling up, and the truth is so elusive, it can feel claustrophobic.
NOW AND THEN SERIES
The series can become too heavy in spots, and often that happens because the series casts the characters’ pasts in such a halcyon light. The best thing about this series is the performances by an impressive ensemble cast that includes Marina de Tavira ( “Roma”), José María Yazpik ( “Narcos Mexico”), Maribel Verdú, Manolo Cardona, Soledad Villamil, Jorge López, Alicia Jaziz, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Alicia Sanz, Jack Duarte and Miranda de la Serna. That’s when the detectives who investigated the original, unsolved homicide, played by Rosie Perez and Željko Ivanek, are called in for a new murder among the former classmates. It follows the friends from their wide-eyed youth to their guilt-ridden adulthood, when the group’s disparate members are reunited by an anonymous blackmailer who threatens to tell all if they don’t pay up. “Now and Then” moves between present day and the year 2000, when “the incident” that changed everyone’s trajectory occurred.
NOW AND THEN TV
We surveyed The Times TV team to come up with a list of the 75 best TV shows you can watch on Netflix. The bilingual thriller featuring Rosie Perez follows five former friends who are reunited by a blackmail. ODonnell, Thora Birch, Melanie Griffith, Gaby Hoffmann, Demi Moore, Ashleigh Aston Moore and Rita Wilson. Television The 75 best TV shows on Netflix right now, according to our experts The plot is similar too: Someone gets killed and all the central characters make astoundingly bad decisions. Is it worth it? Yes, if you liked Netflix‘s Mexican mystery thriller “Who Killed Sara?” Like that 2021 streaming series, “Now and Then” is a compelling soap mixed with well-crafted drama and an even better cast (more on that below).
NOW AND THEN FULL
Each hourlong installment requires a viewer’s full attention, no matter one’s native language, because there’s a lot of history and backstory to keep track of. The first three episodes, which premiere Friday, are twisty and captivating, but also brooding and dense. Set in Miami, this eight-episode bilingual thriller is one part murder mystery, one part melancholy drama about the perils of growing old, and growing apart, with regrets, secrets and a murder (or two) under your belt. And in Apple TV+’s Spanish- and English-language thriller, “Now and Then,” it does. Six promising college seniors celebrate their bright futures at a carefree beach party - ensuring something horrible will happen to them.
