Trivia / Transylvania 6-5000

• Harpo Does Something Funny: Much of the scene between John Byner and Carol Kane preparing the lunch was improvised. The script's only direction was "cut fruit and serve".
• Romance on the Set: Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis met on the set (the fateful moment came during an end-of-the-day viewing of some dailies at the hotel the cast and crew were staying at) and became a couple afterwards. When he was cast as the lead in The Fly (1986) and enlisted her to help him learn his lines, she realized she wanted to play his character's love interest — and while David Cronenberg had reservations about casting an actual couple, he was impressed enough by her first reading (as well as her height, which is comparable to the famously tall Goldblum's!) to go ahead with it. The film ended up providing both leads with Star Making Roles. From there, Goldblum and Davis did Earth Girls Are Easy together and were wed mid-shoot in 1987, before they divorced in 1990.
• What Could Have Been: Paul Reiser was considered for Jack Harrison.

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