And they looked at each other and said, ‘Oh, my goodness, she wants to do the film.’ So I didn’t know that they wanted me. I told them I would be happy to read for them, or whatever it took, I’d read the whole script for them–I didn’t have a problem auditioning–and hopefully I’d hear from them. “We sat down and I was telling them all the reasons I was perfect for the character, and what I thought I could bring to her. “That was unbeknownst to me, because when it was sent to me, I loved the script so much that I was really worried–I was, like, okay, how am I going to get this–I really, really want this movie, how am I going to get it?” She went on to meet with McKay and his associates to persuade them she was the person for the part. “I know that John thought of me very early on,” MacDowell said during a recent interview in Dallas. Their intervention has serious consequences for the couple.
But in adapting the play McKay placed the central relationship within a larger nexus involving the teacher’s two closest friends, women who have serious qualms about the propriety of the affair. The kernel of the piece, derived from the stage version, is a romance between a forty-something American headmistress at a posh English private school and her twenty-something ex-student, the organist at a local funeral parlor. Andie MacDowell is an established star and Kenny Doughty a newcomer to the screen, but both were attracted to “Crush,” the script that John McKay fashioned from one of his plays as a basis for his feature directorial debut.
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