Robin Wright Explains Why a ‘Princess Bride’ Sequel ‘Will Never Happen’
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- Robin Wright acknowledges that fans have a deep love for the 1987 classic The Princess Bride – but they shouldn’t expect a follow-up
- Speaking to AARP’s Movies for Grownups, the actress said the cast was asked about a potential sequel “sometime after we hit the 30-year mark”
- But Wright jokes that many of the cast members would “be in a wheelchair” by the time a sequel got made
While Robin Wright knows that fans love The Princess Bride, she warns they shouldn’t expect there to be a sequel to the 1987 classic.
Speaking to AARP’s Movies for Grownups, the 59-year-old actress said, “Sometime after we hit the 30-year mark, the cast did a Zoom call, and a couple of actors were like, ‘We’ve been asked if we’ll do a sequel,’ and I was like, ‘Well, a lot of us are going to be in a wheelchair.’ So no, no, that will never happen.”
The film followed a farmboy-turned-pirate who, in a quest to be reunited with his true love (a princess played by Wright), encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies. For Wright, The Princess Bride marked her breakout film role after she’d starred as Kelly Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Wright detailed how much fun the cast had on the set of the film.
“We laughed so hard making that movie, we’d have to cut camera and start over again because it was such a giggle-fest,” she said. “Normally, you go to a set, you act, you wrap, and you go back to your hotel room alone. But we took over the hotel, and Cary [Elwes] and I and Rob Reiner and Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest would all have a potluck dinner in the big kitchen. It was going home with people you had fun with to play music, eat good food and commune.”
Even all these years later, the film still resonates, she told AARP, when asked about the lines most often quoted back to her.
“I get ‘run, Forrest, run’ from Forrest Gump. Little girls who love The Princess Bride say to me, ‘Hello. As you wish!’ It’s so sweet. Both films are so timeless,” she shared.
In 2020, some cast members of The Princess Bride (including Wright and Elwes) reunited to do a virtual reading of the script as part of a Democratic fundraiser.
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