9. BLUE VELVET WAS BEING SHOT SIMULTANEOUSLY
David Lynch was filming Blue Velvet (a De Laurentiis production). The cast of both movies started to hang out. “They were also shooting Blue Velvet at the same time, so that was all around us, too,” said Laura Harrington. “I remember having lunch with Laura Dern. Several times. And that was very fun, that whole crew of actors. But, of course, they were in such a different mood.”
“Because it was a small community, my night[s] were [spent] together with people like David Lynch, Isabella Rossellini, and others,” camera assistant Silvia Giulietti added. “For me, in that moment, it was normal. Later, when I grew up, I underst[ood] that it was a very magic moment.”
10. THE MOVIE WAS REFERENCED BY THE SIMPSONS.
In the tenth season of The Simpsons where Homer temporarily becomes a truck driver was titled “Maximum Homerdrive.” And that is where the name came from.
“I remember chitchatting with Yeardley Smith at some point toward the end of production,” grip Joe D’Alessandro remembered. “She was telling me about some little animated thing that she was going to be doing on this thing called The Tracey Ullman Show. It sounded odd but, you know, that turned out to be The Simpsons.”
