We thought he might ask us to try a screening without the close-up. Peter Chernin, then the head at Fox, saw the film with an audience. “We gave it a try and the audience reaction was as good as we could have hoped. When it was brought on the set, the crew asked, ‘You’re not going to show it, are you?’ Farrelly recalled. The Farrellys could have left Ted’s predicament to the imagination, but to “amplify his embarrassment,” they inserted a close-up of the exposed “beans.” A 4-feet-by-2-feet mock-up was produced. Of course, I did it and I’m very glad I did, but my first impression was, ‘I can’t even let my parents see this,’ which they never did.” I had read the script and I thought, ‘I can’t possibly do this movie,’ but I went in to meet them and they were just wonderful. “They just wanted the shock value,” she said in a phone interview. Which, she states, is why the Farrellys offered her the role she didn’t even have to audition. Almost equally shocking was the appearance of “Night Court’s” Post as Mary’s mother, in a situation and using language way out of character for America’s Sweetheart. But no sooner does he pick her up at her house and he’s in her bathroom with his “franks and beans” caught in his zipper. None of Ted’s friends believe he is going to the prom with Mary (“What a fox”). Bobby Farrelly, Lin Shaye (who appeared as Magda, Mary’s ultra-tanned Florida friend and neighbor), Post and Thomas shared their memories of “Mary”-making and how they pulled off some of the film’s riskiest and most memorable moments.
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