Where rom-coms in general are concerned, the best friends are often the most interesting characters.
Greer was something of a go-to rom-com best friend in the 2000s – she also appeared as Casey in– and remembers her time playing them all fondly. “There’s so many fun things about being the supporting character and getting to have all the jokes and have all the funny costumes,” she tells me over Zoom from LA. “That’s my thing, I loved it.”
Indeed, though every player in a rom-com ensemble adds something, the best friend is critical. They provide comedy, of course – where, after all, wouldHow To Lose A Guy In 10 Days? – but as Greer explains, they’re also crucial cogs in a film’s plot, too. “There’s a lot of work that supporting characters do in any movie, but in rom-coms definitely,” she says. “You have to drop all of this exposition, which can be a challenge. You’re like, ‘Hello, audience! Over here! Pay attention to me because I’m going to tell you some shit, and if you don’t listen to me, you’ll be fucked for the next 80 minutes!’”, the best friend’s impact on the narrative goes even further.
Susan May Pratt, who played her, tells me that Mandella’s role in keeping Shakespeare alive in the movie was originally even bigger. “Mandella actually had a number of scenes that didn’t end up in the final cut,” she says. “Gil Junger [the film’s director] played Mandella’s English teacher, and she liked to show him up in class by correcting his knowledge of Shakespeare.” As Pratt puts it, friends like Mandella “provide colour, depth and fun in their own right”.
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