Trivia / Cool as Ice

• Billing Displacement: In the end credits, Naomi Campbell is listed before Vanilla Ice.
• Box Office Bomb: Made $1.1 million at the box office. Budget: $6 million.
• Creator Backlash:
  • David Kellogg completely disowned the movie. He then went on to direct his only other film, Inspector Gadget (1999).
  • Ice made an appearance on How Did This Get Made? in 2012, and seemed amused by so many people even remembering his movie.
• Dawson Casting: Kathy and Nick are meant to be high schoolers, but actors Kristen Minter and John Newton are obviously in their late twenties.
• He Also Did: You wouldn't be blamed for believing the careers of everyone involved lacked anything notable after this movie.
  • Writer David Stenn subsequently worked on The L Word and Boardwalk Empire.
  • Producer Lionel Wigram later received producer credit on some actually successful movies.
  • As the main page mentions, the film's Director of Photography, Janusz Kamiński, went on to be Steven Spielberg's main Cinematographer for all his films since Schindler's List.
• Money, Dear Boy: Ice admits that he mainly took the role because he was offered over a million dollars to star in it.
• Star-Derailing Role:
  • Ice's first big attempt to promote himself in film ultimately ensured that he would be sticking with rap for the better part of his career, save for a notoriously So Bad, It's Good cameo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
  • It also badly hurt the hopes of newcomer Kristin Minter (up until then better known for playing Heather, one of Kevin's cousins in Home Alone) of breaking through as an A-list actress. Her most notable role ever since was a largely background role on ER.
• Wag the Director: It was Ice's star vehicle, so they let him do some of this from the script's inception. This lead to a few improvs he did getting kept in (according to Ice, the famous "drop that zero" line was his idea, as well as "lookie lookie lookie in Kat's black bookie"), but even more than that, Ice wanted lots of motorbikes.
• What Could Have Been: The role of Kathy was originally offered to Gwyneth Paltrow, whose father Bruce forbade her to accept it, because of the sexuality in the screenplay. Judging from how hard the film bombed and Paltrow's later success, she probably owes her father a huge favor.

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