John Cusack shares new detail about popular scene from Say Anything

Hollywood actor John Cusack has shared that he put in a lot of effort for his defiant gesture of love in lsquoSay Anythingrsquo It didnrsquot come as easily as it seemsMore than 35 years after Cusackrsquos Lloyd Dobler became a pop culture icon for holding up a boombox outside the window of Diane Court played by Ione Skye as Peter Gabrielrsquos ldquoIn Your Eyesrdquo blared from its speakers the 59yearold actor admitted that he initially ldquodidnrsquot know how to do itrdquo reports lsquoPeoplersquo magazineldquoI didnt know how to do it because I thought the character was you know hes sitting outside whining kind of saying lsquoPlease come back to mersquordquo Cusack explained during a November 30 screening of the film at New York Cityrsquos Kings Theatre ldquoGuys have pride rightrdquo Before long however the 1408 star ldquofigured that part outrdquoldquoHe knew something fishy was up maybe with the father or that somebody was in her headrdquo he continued of his character in the Cameron Crowedirected film ldquoSo I thought I dont really know how to do it And then finally at the end of the movie I thought lsquoOh what if hes really bad And hes more defiantrsquo And that was what made it workrdquoAs per lsquoPeoplersquo Cusack also revealed that he only agreed to play the iconic character if Crowe 68 agreed to let him make some changes to the script Because after reading it for the first time he noticed that a lot of movies would portray young people through the lens of a ldquo45 to 50yearold professional writer in the mouth of all these peoplerdquoAs for what he wanted to change about Lloydrsquos character Cusack said that ldquothe character was more optimistic but didnrsquot have any darker sides to itrdquo So he wanted to make it clear that Lloyd was ldquochoosing to be optimisticrdquo noting that it made him ldquosort of heroicrdquoldquoIts like a John Lennon and Paul McCartney song Paul McCartney writes lsquoYou gotta admit its getting better Its getting better all the timersquo And then John Lennon says lsquoIt cant get no worsersquo So that was the thing with that characterrdquo he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever