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Just One of the Guys is a 1985 American teen comedy film directed by Lisa Gottlieb and co-written by Dennis Feldman and Jeff Franklin. It is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night .
- Just One of The Guys Made A Big Impact on Many Gay and Transgender Women.
- Its Origins Are Shakespearean.
- “Guy” Terry Was Based on Ralph Macchio.
- The Movie Had A Direct Connection to The Karate Kid.
- Sherilynn Fenn Really Did Think Terry Was cute.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh Was Up For The Lead.
- Joyce Hyser Was A Video Vixen.
- Actor Paul Lieber Was Hyser's "Manly Man" Coach.
- Terry's Boyfriend Was Kelsey Grammer's Roommate.
- But She Hadn't Intended to Bare It all.
“I would say the most interesting and surprising thing I learned about Just One of the Guys is the huge influence it had on young gay and transgender women,” says Gottlieb. “I learned this when we did a live chat on Jezebel a few years ago. For hours, women posted their stories and I was genuinely moved.”
Just One of the Guys is loosely based on The Bard’s Twelfth Night, with Terry playing the role of Viola/Cesario.
“Dresses like Elvis Costello, looks like the Karate Kid... I'm gonna get him,” was the declaration made by Sherilyn Fenn, as high school vixen Sandy, when she caught a glimpse of Terry. Which was no coincidence. “We based Terry the guy on Ralph Macchio, a.k.a. The Karate Kid,” says Gottlieb. “We saw the physical resemblance and went with it. Rememb...
Terry’s resemblance to Ralph Macchio must have made playing the role of Greg, the school bully, much easier for William Zabka. He also played the leg-sweeping nemesis to Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid. In 2018, Macchio and Zabka reunited to reprise those roles for Cobra Kai, a Netflix spin-off of The Karate Kid.
“I thought Joyce made a really cute boy,” Fenn told The A.V. Club in 2014. “I did! I was like, ‘She’s actually cute!’ It was sweet. Instead of making Friday The 13th, Part VIIIor whatever, I was making the girl-meets-boy, girl-meets-girl-dressed-as-boy movie.”
Though she played a teenager in the film, “I think I was 26 when we made the movie and I had to screen test for it,” actress Joyce Hyser, who played Terry, recalled to the Kickin’ It Old School blog in 2010. “There were three women who tested and one of them was Jennifer Jason Leigh. Going into it I was a little nervous about Jennifer because she g...
A year prior to Just One of the Guys, Hyser starred in Dan Hartman’s video for “I Can Dream About You,” which was featured on the soundtrack for Streets of Fire. Ten years later, she was featured in ZZ Top’s video for “Pincushion.”
“In early rehearsals in L.A., the production hired a friend of mine named Paul Lieber,” says Gottlieb. “Paul is a gifted actor. He gives off an ultra-macho manly man air, even though he loves and respects women. He’s definitely not an a**hole but can play one on TV. Joyce Hyser and I hung out with him for a week or so to hone in on his behavior, hi...
Leigh McCloskey, who plays Terry’s boyfriend Kevin, was a classmate—and roommate—of Kelsey Grammer’s at Juilliard.
In order to prove to the guy she’s been pretending to be a guy around that she is in fact a girl (got that?), Hyser rips open her shirt toward the end of the movie. While it seems like the most logical way to get the point across, Hyser was not sold on doing a topless scene. (She even had a no nudity clause in her contract.) It was Gottlieb who fin...
Oct 6, 2015 · Of the actors who were cast for Just One of the Guys, only two were actually teens. While Billy Zabka was 19 and Billy Jayne (then Jacoby) was 16, Joyce Hyser and Clayton Rohner were 27 and...
Just One of the Guys (1985) is a romantic comedy that reimagines William Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Lisa Gottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion and famous for its Signature Scene.
Just One of the Guys: Directed by Lisa Gottlieb. With Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne, Toni Hudson. Terry feels discriminated against when the summer jobs at the Sun Tribune go to two guys.
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Just One of the Guys is a 1985 American teen comedy film directed by Lisa Gottlieb and co-written by Dennis Feldman and Jeff Franklin, although according to Gottlieb, she also co-wrote the screenplay together with her writing partner Mitch Giannunzio but then was supposedly denied writing credit...
Just One of the Guys is a 1985 American teen comedy film directed by Lisa Gottlieb, which was released by Columbia Pictures on April 26, 1985. When Terri Griffith (Joyce Hyser) loses her high school's writing competition, she is convinced that it's because she's a girl, so Terry decides to...
