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The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
- Jack Holden
- B. Mitchel Reed
- Lucy Doolittle
- Mary Grady
- Fred Gwynne
- Rex Blau
- Joel Wachs
- Jon Peters
- Gary Valentine
Sean Penn is one of a few A-list actors who make a lasting impression with an extended cameo appearance in Licorice Pizza. Penn plays Jack Holden, a movie star who does line readings with Alana in an audition, then takes her to Gary’s regular haunt, Tail o’ the Cock. As his name would suggest, Jack is a pretty overt homage to renowned movie star Wi...
Ray Chase appears in Licorice Pizzaas radio DJ B. Mitchel Reed. Reed enjoyed a prolific 25-year career as a DJ in both Los Angeles and New York. During this time, Reed worked for both Top 40 and album-focused rock radio stations. In Licorice Pizza, his cinematic counterpart is used to introduce some of the soundtrack’s grooviest needle-drops.
When Gary and Alana first become friends, she accompanies him to a stage appearance as a chaperone. The show is hosted by Lucy Doolittle, played by Christine Ebersole. Gary goes off-script during the show to make a crude joke just for Alana, for which Doolittle furiously berates him backstage. RELATED: Paul Thomas Anderson's 5 Most Lovable Characte...
Gary’s mom acts as his business partner in the waterbed and pinball machine industries, but he also has an official agent to represent him as an actor. The agent, Mary Grady, played by famed character actor Harriet Sansom Harris (recognizable from a handful of TV roles), is based on a real Hollywood child talent agent. Grady was the mother of actor...
Regular Anderson collaborator John C. Reilly makes a brief cameo appearance during the convention scene in Licorice Pizza. In the midst of a glorious long take following Gary to his waterbed-selling station, Reilly can be spotted dressed as Herman Munster. He’s actually playing Fred Gwynne, the actor who played Herman Munster, making a live appeara...
When Alana goes on a date with Jack Holden, it immediately becomes clear that he isn’t interested in her at all and just wants to regale her with his own long, rambling stories. He invites a director friend of his, Rex Blau (played brilliantly by Tom Waits), to join them at the table. As the scene progresses, Blau goads Holden into performing a mot...
When Alana becomes disillusioned with Gary’s immaturity, she volunteers to work on the political campaign of Joel Wachs, played by Uncut Gemsco-director Benny Safdie. Wachs was a real Los Angeles politician who served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1971 to 2002 (and served as its president from 1981 to 1983). RELATED: 5 Roles In Paul Thomas A...
Bradley Cooper gives a scene-stealing turn as film producer and former hairdresser Jon Peters in Licorice Pizza. He only appears in a couple of scenes when Gary and Alana take a van on its last legs to deliver a waterbed to Barbra Streisand’s boyfriend’s house. Cooper lets loose in all his scenes – whether he’s yelling at kids, trashing his own gar...
Gary Valentine, the teenage actor-turned-entrepreneur at the heart of Licorice Pizza, is a fictional character. But according to Variety, Anderson was heavily influenced by Gary Goetzman’s showbiz anecdotes while he was writing the character. Much like Valentine, Goetzman was a child actor who sold waterbeds on the side. He later became a prolific ...
Jul 12, 2024 · Jon produced Barbra Streisand's A Star is Born remake, an excellent Easter egg, considering Bradley Cooper remade A Star is Born in 2018. In Licorice Pizza, Jon Peters enters the plot when Gary and Alana deliver a waterbed to his home, an experience that the real-life Gary Goetzman had.
Jun 24, 2022 · Paul Thomas Anderson's 2021 film "Licorice Pizza" pays homage to 1970s Los Angeles with a cast of characters you may not know are based on real people.
Licorice Pizza is a 2021 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in their film debuts, alongside an ensemble supporting cast including Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and Benny Safdie. Set in 1973, the film follows the relationship between a teen actor ...
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Dec 1, 2021 · In ‘Licorice Pizza,’ Bradley Cooper plays the Hollywood producer as a repellent, manic chaos agent. The truth behind the portrayal is even more grotesque.
