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Everyone Says I Love You

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18 Interesting Facts About Everyone Says I Love You

Interesting Facts (14)

  1. #001

    Woody Allen had to ask Goldie Hawn to sing worse, because she sang too well to be believable as an ordinary person who was new to singing.

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  2. #002

    Woody Allen did not tell the cast that the film was a musical until they had signed their contracts. None of the actors in the film had any singing experience, and this was the only time any of them appeared in a musical.

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  3. #003

    The cast sang their own songs, with the exception of Drew Barrymore, who convinced Woody Allen that he sang too badly for the realistic singing voices he was after. He said he did not even sing in the shower.

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  4. #004

    Drew Barrymore had to wear a wig because her hair was purple.

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  5. #005

    When shooting the dance numbers, Woody Allen followed Fred Astaire's method of filming dance routines in one or a few continuous camera takes, showing the dancer or dancers from head to toe.

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  6. #006

    It was the first Woody Allen film shot outside New York since Love and Death (1975).

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  7. #007

    Tracey Ullman and Liv Tyler shot scenes for this film, but all of them were cut by director Woody Allen to shorten the total running time.

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  8. #008

    Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman would go on to work together again eight years later in Closer (2004).

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  9. #009

    Edward Norton and Tim Roth play romantic rivals in this film, and twelve years later they would play enemies in The Incredible Hulk (2008).

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  10. #010

    It was Paolo Seganti's first film.

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  11. #011

    Drew Barrymore and Lukas Haas had previously appeared together in the 1989 film See You in the Morning.

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  12. #012

    Natasha Lyonne and Gaby Hoffmann would later appear together in a 2025 episode of Poker Face (2023).

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  13. #013

    Everyone Says I Love You marked Christy Carlson Romano's debut.

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  14. #014

    Billy Crudup appears in the cast alongside Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman but shares no scenes with them. Years later he would act with Roberts in Eat Pray Love (2010) and with Portman in Jackie (2016).

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #015

    Kim Rossi Stuart's role in the film ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Characters & Cast (2)

  1. #016

    The narrator, D. J. (played by Natasha Lyonne), says her real name is Djuna, after the novelist Djuna Barnes, who wrote Nightwood. Barnes later appeared as a very minor character in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011).

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  2. #017

    This was the first of two films in which Natalie Portman (Laura Dandridge) starred in a title beginning with "I Love You"; the second was New York, I Love You (2008).

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Career & Awards (1)

  1. #018

    The film's cast includes four Oscar winners: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman; and three Oscar nominees: Edward Norton, Tim Roth and Alan Alda.

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