I always wondering how they got Jack Jr to cry so hard during this scene. When Jackson comes home and sees the house is a mess and finds Jack crying. He then picks him up and walks around, the further away he gets from Shelby the harder the baby cries. I wonder if Julia Roberts spent a lot of time around the baby during non takes and the baby just got close to her, or was Jackson just pinching him or something? lol
shareI read somewhere that Julia Roberts is not in the 3rd of July birthday scene b/c the child would not stop crying, & they had to have his real mother hold him, which is why we don't see Shelby at all in that scene. I think the child may have just been scared during the filming. He was pretty young & had no idea what was going on. Kids that young aren't really "actors." He was probably just crying b/c he realized he was around strangers.
shareI always wondered why we never saw Shelbys face at the babys birthday party!!
shareI always wonder about that. I figure the actors just stand around until the kid starts crying. I was watching something, don't remember what, when the baby would cry when the mom held it and would stop when the dad held it. They passed the kid back and forth a couple of times with no edit, and every time, the baby would start crying appropriately. Pretty good acting for a 8 month old!
shareNot so much acting as a little bit of trickery.
On "The Nanny" they did the scenes where Chester would growl/bite at/bark at C.C. by having her squeeze/pinch him when she held him.
The scene you mentioned probably involved putting something of the baby's mothers on the woman and something offensive-smelling on the man.
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That's a good question. It could be as simple as jsut waiting until you know he's going to be cranky, like right after a nap or when he hasn't eaten in a while.
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They could have spanked him or given him a toy to play with and then taken it away before filming too. You can do a lot to get kids to cry on cue. Scare them, spank them, take away the toy, wait until they're cranky, have a stranger hold them. Lots of stuff that can be done to them to get them to show fear or in this case, crying, which won't hurt them.
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I always figured that they dressed the baby's real mother up in Julia Robert's wardrobe(as well as the short wig that Julia was wearing), made her lay unconscious, which may have caused him to go into legitimate hysteria. When Jackson runs to Shelby's aid, they show him holding her from a distance, as well as concealment of her face; that's always been my theory.
"Oh, but honey, you just fixed dinner 3 years ago!"
This scene has ALWAYS bothered me, even when I watched it in the theater, way back in 19-dickerydoo. There is something way too real about his reaction that strikes a nerve in me, and it would be a full twenty - TWENTY, people - years before I gave birth to my son. I think Herbert Ross was a genius/a**hole...saw a moment with the babe and started rolling film. Just my humble opinion
shareThe hysterical crying sounds are usually always dubbed in afterwards but as for the acting part the baby was most likely reaching for his mother who was hiding off screen. They have ways to get babies to look in certain directions, using loud noises and toys, etc.
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