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From her iconic style in She’s All That to her big break in The Babysitters Club, Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie and the Pussycats and He’s All That) takes us behind the looks of her characters’ style.
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Oh dear, I remember we got the giggles this day
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People did not think it was funny, and I felt bad. Hi, I'm Rachel Leigh Cook, and we are going Behind the Looks with Who, What, Where
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Oh boy, we are beginning at the very beginning. Here it is, 1995 Columbia Pictures' The Babysitter's Club
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I played a character named Marianne Spear, which is, even if you only read the books, you definitely remember Marianne
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She is fiercely loyal, very studious, and these things are, well, especially the studious part where they made sure to convey in the wardrobe
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What I remember about this outfit is that kind of in the classic trope of sort of prep school clothing
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I remember I would roll the waistband a little bit too high to try to make it cuter and shorter
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And I remember the costume designer always going like, Rachel, come on, help me out. It's a kid's movie. Let's be cool
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I definitely thought I was way more of a Claudia. She had the cool clothes when the movie was over and we had the option to buy stuff
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I took home none of the Marianne outfits. Marianne, all heart, not a lot of fashion
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Oh, here we go. Guess this was my thing for a while. This movie is called Strike. I think it
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has a couple different titles internationally, but this was a great, great time filming this movie
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I play a character named Abigail Sawyer, and she is the goody-goody of the group, who is
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everyone's sort of shared nemesis in that photo. These outfits are so adorable. It was a period
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piece. I can't remember exactly what year it set in, but I remember it was so hot in Toronto where
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we shot this. And I want to say it was maybe even that day. We had a lot of people faint, just drop
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completely hit the deck because those uniforms are made of wool. So yeah, that happened
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here we go 1999 tastic she's all that my character's name is laney boggs probably most known for
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wearing the glasses until she doesn't i think the joke is now that if you were to remake it which
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obviously they did but this version if you were to do that that it would sort of go in reverse and
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that you would get glasses i don know this is why they shouldn ask me what can i tell you about the red dress I remember that it was custom made because they wanted it to be a very specific thing and we absolutely needed doubles
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Our costume designer, Denise Wingate, who, fun bit of trivia, also designed He's All That, which is perfect and wonderful that she was able to do that again for us
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She had it made, I remember it was made by a designer down on, I think, Beverly or Melrose
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We went to their storefront, and they sort of collaborated on it together
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And I remember that one of the red dresses was slightly smaller than the other
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And I came down the stairs in the smaller one, and I am not breathing, and you can kind of tell
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I don't know if you could call a single moment my favorite
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but one of the things that I'm grateful to the movie for is that I started working when I was really young
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As you know, a very direct visual reference to from that babysitter's club slide
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But I did not go to my own prom. And I was the age that I was playing in She's All That
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So I had this epic fake movie prom. And sure, no one was like anyone's actual date
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But I got to watch incredible dancing. I had, you know, hair makeup there the whole time
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Like I have a sort of placebo prom memory that I otherwise wouldn't have had
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And I think that that's, look, I understand the difference between making a movie in reality
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Okay. I'm not a loon, but that was really cool to me. Okay
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Here we go. 2001, Josie and the cats, where I was lucky enough to be able to play Josie McCoy
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Holy crap. How Lisa Evans was not, I don't know. I hope she won every award imaginable for her design on this movie
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she came to me with the sketches of the outfits for the film that look exactly like what she
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produced usually those seem like wishful thinking i loved her vision i love the fashion you could
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never wear it in real life but that's the point of being a rock star right so yeah lisa crushed it
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for us lisa had to have all of the pants custom made because they didn't make low rise enough
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pants for her vision. I mean, I think that the zippers were maybe two inches. I did keep some
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of the ears. I've got them somewhere. I think I got my photo doubles version of them because they
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say Josie double. I'm not even mine, but I definitely have some somewhere. People were so
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quick to call our movie hypocritical because it was covered in branding and it was like yeah that the point It self and you know what Never mind If you get it you get it If you don whatever watch it again
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When people show me photos of themselves and their friends dressed up as these characters
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for Halloween, it puts such a smile on my face. This is a lesser known movie called Texas Rangers
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It is from 2001. It is my second film with Usher, but hopefully not the last
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I play a character named Caroline Dukes. That is Ashton Kutcher. And it also features James Van Der Beek and Dylan McDermott
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That was pretty good. I gotta say. Impressed I remember that much
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This, we had beautiful weather. I remember we were in Calgary. And yeah, gosh, they did a great job
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They must have had a serious budget on that movie. I love that you've been in a movie with Usher a few times
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I love it too. I can't wait for our next collaboration. Not a lot of people walk up to me on the street and reference this movie
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Actually, that's never happened. This movie is called Blonde Ambition. It is from 2007
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I play an artsy type. I think this is me trying to channel my inner Claudia from Babysitter's Club
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with Jessica Simpson as the lead in this. I played her cousin
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What do I remember about it? I remember that Jessica was wonderful
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She is so warm and she's kind of shy and her family was there and she's just a really lovely
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human being. No idea what that movie's about. I don't know what these Yeti boots are about on
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what's clearly a beautiful day outside. That was ill-advised. That I would reconsider
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This is from Valentine in the Vineyard from the Vineyard series that was on the Hallmark Channel
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starring myself and Canada's own Brendan Penny. Penny, I love you. I miss you. I hope this is
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not the last work that we do together. We shot these movies in a region called the Okanagan
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in BC. And the Okanagan needs a new publicist because it is incredible. It is just as beautiful
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as Napa. There's so many amazing boutique wineries up there. Highly recommend a visit
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What can I tell you about this wedding day? Oh dear, I remember we got the giggles this day
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We did and it was very cold. People did not think it was funny and I felt bad
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It wasn't great. It doesn happen to me very often so I remember that No this would not be my preferred style of wedding dress but again it was freezing So all of a sudden this shrug kind of moment had to come together
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Very Mother of the Bride vibes. Not really feeling it. But again, very fun day
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Too fun, apparently. Here we go. Aw. Hi, Addison. You little sweetheart
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This is 2021. My first foray into the mom roles in earnest
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This is He's All That, remake of She's All That, where I play Anna Sawyer, mom of Padgett
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Sawyer, played by none other than the Internet's Addison Rae, who is such a lovely young human
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Nothing but respect for her kindness and professionalism. And directed by Mark Waters, who I was reunited with after working with him on a movie called
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House of Yes, which is where I first met Freddie Prinze Jr. Full circle moment
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There it goes. I hope this doesn't seem like a reflection of a massive ego or something
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But I remember going for my wardrobe fitting on this again with Denise Wingate
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And that kind of did my head in a little bit. But I went and they were already into production
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And I remember thinking, all these trucks are here because we made a movie that people liked 20 years ago
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More than 20 years ago. How crazy is that? I don't know
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It seemed like I choose to take it as a gigantic compliment
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That's what I'm going with. Ah, here we go. We are right up to date
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2023, A Tourist's Guide to Love. My character is Amanda Riley. And I straight up told our costume designer
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I do not want to hear it with your reality of what people would wear when traveling
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I was like, we are Carrie Bradshaw traveling over here. We are aspirational traveling
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And yeah, I think that the fashion of this movie is absolutely beautiful
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I'm incredibly happy with the way it came out. Val Halverson absolutely knocked this out of the park
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She also did my first Netflix movie, Love Guaranteed. And I will work with her every time she'll have me
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Oh my goodness. Thank you, Who, What, Where, for that trip down memory lane
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Please tell me your favorite looks below. and yeah I hope you will join us for a tourist guide to love only on Netflix
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