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UmbrellaFish wrote:Maybe they're afraid the public will get confused with two 101 Dalmatians on the shelf?

magicalwands wrote:Oh God I hope not! It makes me feel so much better Disney has barely any confidence in me that I can tell which movie is which from a cover on a shelf.

Luke wrote:Maybe now that Disney's confident that today's families are familiar with the animated film, they'll get around to re-releasing the live-action one in the Special Edition it would seem to deserve.

Mason_Ireton wrote:I agree this film could use a possible 2 disc special editon. I'd include a commentary, full length documentary, all the laserdisc's specials. Trailers too.

5. Close kept all her costumes from playing Cruella de Vil in “101” and “102 Dalmatians.”

Davidson tells Close that one of his favorite performances of hers growing up was in the 1996 live-action “101 Dalmatians” and its 2000 sequel “102 Dalmatians,” where she played the puppy-hating villain Cruella De Vil.

“There’s just so many questions,” Davidson says. “Cruella is amazing.”

“I asked to get some of the original dialogue from the animated feature because she said, ‘Chloroform them! Drown them!'” Close says. “It’s really horrible stuff. I realized the meaner she was, the better she was. I loved that character

Close reveals that she kept all her costumes, although Disney tried to renege on a deal they’d made with her. “I got in my contract that I got to keep all my costumes that I wore in the movie,” Close says. “Then when they found out how expensive they were, they were unhappy that it was in my contract. They wanted to make another copy, another set, for me. I said no.”

Emma Stone may be taking on the role of Cruella de Vil in Disney’s “Cruella,” but that doesn’t mean Glenn Close is done playing the Disney villain. “I have a great story to make another Cruella with my Cruella,” Close tells me. She’s tightlipped about details but teases, “Cruella comes to New York and disappears down the sewers.”

Cruella de Vil
Costume Designer: Anthony Powell

He and Ann are the people that I’ve worked with the most in my career and Anthony had such an
amazing twinkle in his eye and he would challenge me with costumes.

Those Cruella costumes were not always easy to move in but you have to because the heels were high and the furs were very heavy. You couldn’t have them wear you, you had to wear them. I was really happy and I think it was important that I’d had a career on stage and knew how to move around and in various costumes.

But it was fun to maneuver those furs. My entrance in “101 Dalmatians” when I come out of the car, those heels were made out of nails. When we finally got to shooting me going down what is the runway my feet were on fire. I finally got these boots with very high soles that I could wear when my feet weren’t on camera. Every time I see that I remember how sore my feet were.

I had a very tight corset measured every morning – 21 inches. The costumes had to fit like a glove. I had a corset, and that was very important to have that fabulous shape.

I had just finished the original run of “Sunset Boulevard” and I had worn fake nails glued on my hands for over a year and a half and my nails were really thin. Anthony said, ‘We’ll just put them outside the gloves,’ and that’s the reason why Cruella has nails outside the gloves because my fingernails were very fragile.