He is under no illusion that this was, and will most probably remain, the highlight of his career and the film for which he is best known and he tells the story of the production process with enthusiasm and affection, for both his colleagues and for the film. The Princess Bride was Elwes’ biggest role to date at the time of filming and his portrayal of the male lead, Westley, made him a star.
Adapted from his own novel by legendary screenwriter William Goldman, who died just this week, The Princess Bride is a tongue-in-cheek swashbuckling romance with some of the most quotable lines in cinematic history. It found its audience thanks to home video and as director Rob Reiner’s star ascended, so too did the cult reputation of The Princess Bride. Released in 1987, The Princess Bride didn’t make too much of a cinematic splash thanks to a confused marketing campaign and the difficulty in placing the film in any one genre. If you’re a fan – like me – you will enjoy this trip behind the scenes of the making of The Princess Bride, but if you’re not, I don’t think there will be a lot to hold your attention. So, I went into As You Wish with high hopes and you know what? It’s fine. Obviously I should have taken his order and said ‘as you wish, Cary’ but the moment was gone and I spent the rest of the evening boring the delivery driver rigid with questions about what happened when the pizza was delivered. When he gave his name, I spluttered, ‘What? THE Cary Elwes?’ and he laughed and said ‘The very one’. You see, about 20 years or so ago, I made a pizza for Cary Elwes and I haven’t stopped talking about it since.īack in the ‘90s, when I lived in Dublin, I worked in the first Domino’s Pizza in Ireland and one evening Cary Elwes rang and asked for a 12” Vegetarian Pizza to be delivered to the Shelbourne Hotel.
Secondly, Cary Elwes is at the centre of my best celebrity story.
I am also one of those irritating people who recites the lines along with the actors, so it is safe to say I am a fan. I am prone to announcing that things are ‘inconceivable!’ and own a Dread Pirate Roberts t-shirt. I do not read a lot of celebrity memoir, but I wanted to read As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From The Making of The Princess Bride for several reasons.įirstly, I love the film and have recently rediscovered it through the eyes of my seven-year old twins, who also love it.
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