CLUELESS Director Amy Heckerling on how she cast Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd
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At a Harold Lloyd Masters Seminar talk at the AFI Conservatory, Director and AFI alum Amy Heckerling describes how she cast Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd in CLUELESS. Heckerling first saw Silverstone while watching an Aerosmith music videos on her treadmill. She considered Adam Horovitz for the role of Josh. Subscribe to this channel for more exclusive videos from the AFI Archive: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AFI Follow AFI: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFilmInstitute https://twitter.com/AmericanFilm https://instagram.com/americanfilminstitute http://americanfilminstitute.tumblr.com http://www.afi.com
Clueless
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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