Avnet said a nearby river where they rehearsed scenes was full of water moccasins.“Although typical to her nature and to many actors, she insisted on having a dialogue coach to ruin it. Born in South Carolina, actress Mary-Louise Parker “had a beautiful Southern accent from the first time she came in,” Avnet said.“She had an appreciation of life that was enormous. Avnet said she had no hair and wore a wig. Tandy had just finished chemotherapy before shooting the movie.It took four or five hours just a shoot a few seconds of hat close-ups. Avnet said the that that flies off of Ruth’s head was “one pain in the butt.” He said if you ever try to do what they made that hat do, “good luck.” They tied a fishing line to it, but he wanted it to roll on its brim, which was a very difficult effect to create.To create a connection between young, middle and older Idgie, Avnet had Atchison and Tandy wear contact lenses so their blue eyes would be brown.“She was a trouper,” Avnet said about the young actress. Now married to her high school sweetheart, Bradley Hendrix, and living in Homewood, with their teenage son, Noah, “the light of our lives,” Nancy Hendrix (originally from Montgomery) works as the director of development at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Young Idgie was played by Alabama native Nancy Atchison, who appears during he first 17 minutes of the movie.
One thing that appealed to Kathy Bates about making the movie was a chance to work with Jessica Tandy, but Avnet said the “Misery” actress also had a “great burning desire” to destroy a Volkswagen because her boyfriend/future husband had one.He said it reminded him of scouting locations early in his career when he would pass through “ghost towns” without stopping to wonder or learn what had been there before. It became the central image of the movie for him, when Kathy Bates arrives in the town at the beginning, as she hears something nobody else hears. Avnet said the movie was completely inspired by Flagg’s book, and his first thought/image for the film when he was reading the book was imagining a “ghost train” speeding through the town of Whistle Stop.While Fannie Flagg based the Whistle Stop restaurant on the real-life Irondale Café in Irondale, Ala., they filmed much of the movie including the café scenes in the small Georgia town of Juliette.
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