Well, isn’t this the sweetest exchange.
Melanie Lynskey reconnected with her “Sweet Home Alabama” kids via social media in the comments section of a post honoring the rom-com.
“@msmelanielynskey ❤️ proud to be one of your kiddos in this film. My first job!” former child star Colin Ford wrote on Entertainment Weekly’s page.
The “Yellowjackets” actress replied: “I knoooow and you were so sweet and did such a good job! @kelseylowenthal too! 💖.”
Lynskey’s on-screen daughter, played by Kelsey Lowenthal, then joined in.
“Awww thank you!🥰,” she gushed. “Best memories of my life were during this set!”
She went on to pitch a sequel with “the kids all grown up,” in which Lynskey said the idea would be “a dream.”
Lynskey played Lurlynn in the 2002 rom-com, which also starred Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward, Jean Smart and Ethan Embry.
In one famous scene, Witherspoon’s Melanie Smooter exclaimed “you have a baby, in a bar!” when she reunites with former high school pal Lurlynn, but Lynskey clarified that Ford and Lowenthal weren’t the baby actors in that particular montage.
“Neither of them are the baby, they were both sweet and talented little kids who played my other kids, and they’ve grown into sweet and talented adults,” she explained to a fan this week. “Adore them both.”
In 2021, the “Don’t Look Up” actress opened up about her time on the set.
“I remember early on Reese telling me that my accent had better be good. She’s like, ‘I’m from the south.’ And not like in a nasty way. She just was like, ‘You know, you got to get it right because it’s very specific.’ And I was like, ‘I think I’ve gotten it right, but I really hope so,’” Lynskey recalled to Us Weekly at the time. “She really cared about things being authentic and she approved of my accent once I did it. She was like, ‘Good job.’”
“I love Reese. I’m so impressed by her as a human, being, the work that she does as an advocate for children, the person she is, the way she is uplifting other women and making women’s stories told, her production company [Hello Sunshine] is just incredible,” she continued. “The books she’s optioning. I’m just like, I — already at that point in time, 20 years ago — I was like, ‘This is a woman to watch.’ She’s just such a strong person who has just always been so fully herself and she hasn’t had a misstep. Her career has just been going [up and up] for all these years. And who does that? It’s incredible.”
The cast would take advantage of their downtime while working together too.
“On the weekends we would all get together and have parties and cook together and hang out together. It was a really fun group. Everyone really liked each other,” she recalled. “We had some pretty crazy parties on that movie. A hotel room in Atlanta just playing games with each other. It was a very fun set.”
Years later, Lynskey would even repeat her bar scene from the film after wrapping the Justin Long-directed comedy, “Lady of the Manor.”
“I think I brought my daughter to a bar,” she said of her daughter, whom she shares with husband Jason Ritter. “We had this sort of crew party through filming, and it was at a bar. Yeah, she was there at the bar!”
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