The actress compared their special bond to that of Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant during a speech at Rhode Island Comic Con on November 1.

Helene Hunt lets himself be carried away by the memories of Tornado.

The actress, 61, appeared at a special screening of the hit 1996 disaster film in Rhode Island Comic Strip Friday, November 1st. During a pre-selection question-and-answer session, the Crazy about you the star remembered her special on-screen chemistry with her partner Bill Paxtondied of complications surgery in 2017 at the age of 61.

“I think we had chemistry immediately,” she told the audience, likening their dynamic to that of stars. Catherine Hepburn And Cary Grant in the classic 1938 film Raising baby.

“There’s this old trope that’s true,” she continued: “Sometimes you have chemistry with someone and you like everything they say and you want to jump into their arms, and d “Other times it drives you crazy – and it’s a different kind of chemistry.”

“So I think we both realized that this is what was being asked of us,” she concluded.

Hunt continued by congratulating her Tornado his co-star Jami Gertz, who played Hunt’s romantic rival of sorts – for contributing to his chemistry with Paxton.

“She plays someone who is so boring,” Hunt said. “And she asks all the boring questions and doesn’t want to get her costume dirty. What she does makes me look cool, so, you know, I owe it – a lot of it – to her.”

Hunt also revealed that she and Gertz were responsible for ensuring that their dynamic was never “mean,” despite playing two women in love with the same man.

“There’s very little that I take credit for in this movie, because it’s so much bigger than me,” Hunt said. “But that I’ll take some credit for that, because there are some things in the storyline where I’m a little bit mean to her, she’s with me, and we looked at each other and we were like, “I don’t want to see it “. “

“It was both of us who said, ‘This is not how we make the public want to watch these two women,’” she remembers.

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Written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin and produced by a tornado aficionado Steven Spielberg, Tornado earned over $494 million at the worldwide box office. It also stars Gertz, Cary ElwesLois Smith, Alan Ruck and the delay Philippe Seymour Hoffman.

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Twistsa standalone sequel featuring Daisy Edgar Jones, Glen Powell, Kiernan Shipka, Anthony Ramos and more, premiered in theaters on July 19. During his development, Hunt had launched and intended to make a sequel to the original, by co-writing a screenplay with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.

“I tried to do it,” she said on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2021. But studios “wouldn’t do it,” she said, adding that “it would have been so cool.”

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On filming tornadoes back when computer-generated effects weren’t as advanced as they are today, Hunt saidWeekly Entertainment in July that theTornado The team “just hit us, and it looks amazing…A lot of acting now is you’re looking at a piece of tape or you’re looking at a green screen.” she and her colleagues were reacting, she added, to “actually happening.” And even though it made things more complicated, it made it easier to act.”

Rhode Island Comic Con takes place November 1-3 in Providence, Rhode Island.