Two Girls and a Guy (1997) on Netflix
Carla and Lou wait outside a loft for their boyfriends and discover they are dating the same man, the actor Blake. They let themselves in and wait for him to return.
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Plot summary
Carla and Lou each stand outside the same loft, waiting for the man she has been dating. They start talking and learn that both of them have been seeing the actor Blake, who told each woman that she was his only girlfriend and kept the double life going for close to ten months. Furious, the two women break into his loft and wait for him to come home. When Blake walks in and finds them there, their questions and his explanations begin, and he keeps talking, offering reasons and denials, while each woman presses him on what he promised her alone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
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- Writer-director James Toback said he wrote the screenplay for Two Girls and a Guy in only four days and shot the entire film in eleven days.
- Robert Downey Jr. was reportedly drug-tested on the set of Two Girls and a Guy every day, and roles such as this helped him stay clean temporarily before his relapse in September 1997.
- James Toback wrote Two Girls and a Guy after seeing Robert Downey Jr. handcuffed on television following a 1996 drug arrest; it was Downey's first role after that arrest, along with The Gingerbread Man.
- Natasha Gregson Wagner persuaded James Toback to remove a scene he originally wanted, in which her character masturbates to Robert Downey Jr. and Heather Graham having sex, because she believed it was not realistic.
- In 2018, comedian Natasha Leggero alleged on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that James Toback sexually harassed her under the guise of potentially casting her for Two Girls and a Guy.
- To get an R rating rather than an NC-17, the sex scene between Robert Downey Jr. and Heather Graham was toned down and re-edited, and both cuts were later made available on home media.
- The bathroom scene in which Robert Downey Jr. is interrogated by the two female leads was improvised and co-written by the actors, and Toback's only directions for Downey Jr. were "delight me, amuse me, fascinate me, frighten me, horrify me, engage me."
- Robert Downey Jr. said the moment in the bathroom scene where he looks at himself in a mirror was shot at the end of the day with a magazine of film left over, a "dumb idea" he learned as much from as anything except Chaplin.
