Helen Hunt Recalls 'Immediately' Having Chemistry with Bill Paxton While Filming Twister

Helen Hunt is overwhelmed by memories of Twister.

The actress, 61, appeared at a special screening of the hit 1996 disaster film at Rhode Island Comic Con on Friday, November 1. In the questions and answers before the screening, crazy about you star recalled her special on-screen chemistry with co-star Bill Paxton, who died of complications from surgery in 2017 aged 61.

“I think we had chemistry right away,” she told the audience, comparing their dynamic to that of stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in the classic 1938 film. Raising a baby.

“There’s an old saying that’s true,” she continued, “Sometimes you have chemistry with someone and you love everything they say and want to jump into their arms, and other times they drive you crazy—and that’s a different kind of chemistry.”

“So I think we both understood that that was what was required of us in this,” she concluded.

Bill Paxton (left) and Helen Hunt in the 1996 film ‘Twister’.

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Hunt continued to praise her Twister actress Jami Gertz, who played Hunt’s romantic rival of sorts — for adding to her chemistry with Paxton.

“He plays someone who is so boring,” Hunt said. “And she asks all the boring questions and doesn’t want to get her suit dirty. It makes me look cool, so, you know, I owe that—a lot—to her.”

Hunt also revealed that she and Gertz are responsible for their dynamic never being “catty,” despite playing two women in love with the same man.

“There are very few things 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, because there were some things in the script where I’m a little snarky with her, she’s with me, we looked at each other and said, ‘I don’t want to see that.’ ”

“It was the two of us who said, ‘That’s not the way to make the audience want to watch these two women,'” she recalled.

Helen Hunt in the movie ‘Twister’ from 1996.

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Written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin and executive produced by tornado enthusiast Steven Spielberg, Twister grossed over $494 million at the worldwide box office. It also stars Gertz, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Twistersthe standalone sequel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Kiernan Shipka, Anthony Ramos and more, opens in theaters on July 19. During its development, Hunt pitched and intended to direct a sequel to the original, along with writing the screenplay with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casala.

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

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About shooting tornadoes in the days when computer-generated effects weren’t as advanced as they are now, Hunt said Entertainment Weekly in July that isTwister the team “just beat us, and it looks amazing. . . . So much of the acting now is that you’re looking at a piece of tape, or you’re looking at a green screen.” What she and her colleagues reacted to, she added, “was really happening. And while it made it messier, it made it easier to operate.”

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

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