11 Pieces Of Useless Trivia About Jerry Maguire
Twenty years ago this week, a movie was released that perfectly balanced sports film with romantic drama.
The film's story is reportedly based on real-life agent Leigh Steinberg. Leigh makes a cameo in the film as Troy Aikman's agent, which he is IRL.
Cameron Crowe really did write out the entire 27-page mission statement.
Cuba Gooding Jr. first read for his part with Robin Williams. He thought that Robin was playing the lead but Robin was only subbing in as a favour.
The kid who plays Dorothy’s son Ray, Johnathon Lipnicki (who is now trained in MMA and a total babe btw), actually replaced another actor mid-shoot.
The first scene between Johnathon & Tom was completely adlibbed. The line 'the human head weighs eight pounds' also came from Johnathon's own mouth.
Tom forgot he had worked with Bonnie Hunt before (on Rain Man) and thought she was joking when she talked to him about it. Awks…
Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, John Travolta and Bruce Willis were all considered for the lead role.
Jamie Foxx was one of the fifty actors who auditioned for Cuba Gooding Jr.’s role.
The baseball field at the end of the film is the same field used in Hook (1991).
Cameron Crowe learned mid-shoot that Cuba Gooding Jr is too small for NFL wide receiver standards so he wrote a line into the script referencing this.
Renee didn’t get the line ‘You had me at hello’: ‘I thought it was a typo somehow.. I was [go]ing, Is that right?.. Is there a better way to say that?