The Two Leads of TWISTERS Originally Kissed in the Film Until Steven Spielberg Had It Cut
While the recently released film Twisters was a fun movie, it definitely was not as good as the original. The characters in the original movie were just a lot more interesting and well-rounded.
When I was walking out of the movie theater with my wife, one of the first things she mentioned was how the two lead characters Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Tyler Owens (Glen Powell) didn’t kiss. They set up a whole romance thing, but the two never locked lips.
Well, it turns out that the director of the film, Lee Isaac Chung, shot a scene of them kissing, but thanks to producer Steven Spielberg, it ended up on the cutting room floor.
During an interview with Collider Edgar-Jones explained why it was cut saying: "I think it's a Spielberg note, wasn't it? Do you know what it is? I think it stops the film feeling too cliched, actually.
“I think there's something really wonderful about it feeling like there's a continuation. This isn't the end of their story. They're united by their shared passion for something."
Powell added: "I also think that this movie is not about them finding love. It's returning Kate to the thing that she loves, which is storm chasing.
"So that's what you have at the end of the movie. They share this thing, and her passion is reinvigorated, and her sense of home is reinvigorated.
“I feel like a kiss would be sort of unrepresentative of the right goal at the end of the movie. And it is a good Spielberg note. It's why that kid is still in this game. It's amazing."
Yep, it’s notes like this that is why “that kid” Spielberg is still in the game of making movies. Powell makes little quirky comments like this all the time, and it amuses me.
In the movie, “a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi to test a groundbreaking new tracking system.”
It’s here that she crosses paths with Tyler Owens, “the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.”
The synopsis goes on to say: “As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.”
If you saw Twisters, let us know what you thought of it!