

Prior to "Empire Records," Renee Zellweger had only appeared in a few low-budget features like 1994's "Reality Bites" and "Love and a. RELATED: The 20 highest grossing films of the 2000s to stream She's been engaged to British sports and entertainment manager David Gardner since 2015. More recently, she starred opposite Brad Pitt in the 2019 space drama "Ad Astra" and on the FOX procedural "9-1-1: Lone Star." Liv was married to musician Royston Langdon, with whom she shares a son, from 2003 to 2008.
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Also in 2014, Liv expanded her resume to television with lead parts on the HBO drama series "The Leftovers," where she remained until 2017, the HBO miniseries "Gunpowder" in 2017 and Hulu's "Harlots" from 2018 to 2019. She then moved into indies with "Super" and "The Ledge" in 2011 and "Space Station 76" in 2014. Liv then starred in the 2004 comedy "Jersey Girl," the 2007 drama "Reign Over Me" and the 2008 horror flick "The Strangers." That same year, the actress starred in the Marvel superhero hit "The Incredible Hulk" as the superhero's love interest, Betty Ross. She followed it with a series of '90s hits like 1995's "Heavy," 1996's "Stealing Beauty" and "That Thing You Do!," 1997's "Inventing the Abbotts," 1998's "Armageddon" and 1999's "Cookie's Fortune." She kicked off the 2000s with a starring role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which went on to gross more than $2.9 billion at the box office and win 17 Academy Awards. The New York City native told Entertainment Weekly that filming "Empire Records" one of the best experiences of her life and that it jump-started her career. "The element that is a major character that looms over the film is the music, and the sound, and the energy that's provided and if they do a musical about it I'd love to watch it."Empire Records" served as a breakout project for Liv Tyler, who up to that point was best known for modeling, commercials and her appearance in the "Crazy" music video that her father, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, released with his band in 1993.

I think it would be a great musical," said Whitworth. The project was announced on, you guessed it, Rex Manning Day back in 2018. While it's clearly a product of the '90s, the appreciation for "Empire Records" now is so strong, there's even a Broadway musical in the works. "Being part of something like that has - I mean the filming was fantastic, but now you don't even get rehearsals, you wouldn't get three months to shoot that film, they wouldn't even make that film and it's like. Shenanigans, there was a lot of shenanigans." We all had our own homes and they would just walk down the beach to hang out with each other. "The cast was all primarily new, young and they housed us on the beach.

We had three weeks of rehearsal," he explained. We had three months to shoot that film that took place in one day. "They don't make movies like that anymore. According to Whitworth, that led to some "shenanigans" on set.
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The movie was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina and the mostly-young cast had plenty of time to get to know one another.

I didn't even know that it had a following until just before the 20th anniversary." "Being part of a time capsule is kinda wild," he explained, "I've come to really appreciate it, but it was bizarre to me. The actor, now 44, said the film is a "time capsule" on multiple levels, both in what it's about and the type of film it is. "But, as time has gone on, I really appreciate the people who appreciate it." "The excitement or the knowledge of the fact that there's something on the date, which the date being April 8th I think, the day Rex Manning is coming into the store to make his appearance, it was bizarre to me," said Whitworth. Rex Manning Day, of course, is the day the aging pop star of the same name - played by Maxwell Caulfield - visited the titular record store in the film. "Because people started asking to do interviews and stuff and then somebody explained to me what Rex Manning Day was." so, a little bit before the 20th anniversary," he told TooFab when asked when he started feeling the love. According to star Johnny Whitworth - who played AJ, he of the perfect hair and so-'90s cardigan - he didn't realize the following was there until about five years ago.
