Mary Stuart Masterson Spills Secrets from the Set of Fried Green Tomatoes Thirty Years Later

Just as we have begun to emerge from our pandemic shelter in place quarters, we have been rewarded by TCM and Fathom Events with the return of Fried Green Tomatoes to cinemas for a very limited time this month.

We had the ability to go shower and start over and get dressed again but I wanna say we only did it once with multiple cameras because it was just too fun.

The pheromone attracted the bees to her, and she became, as she described, “I was effectively a giant bee magnet.” It was a relatively closed set that day, just Masterson, the director, the director of photography, a driver, and “the bee guy.” Oh, and a lot of bees, of course.

We did what’s called a series where you don’t cut, you just keep rolling and you set back to 1 and you do it .

“I walked away really slowly and the bees weren’t going anywhere and he kept putting more and more smoke and was like ‘ok walk a little faster, okay RUN!’ And then I jumped into a car, took my shirt off that had the queen bee pheromone on it.

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