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Secrets About She's All That Revealed

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Why it matters

and Rachael Leigh Cook starred in 1999's She's All That, but Josh Hartnett and Jordana Brewster were considered.

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  • IllustrationHere are 20 behind the scenes facts you might not know about She's All That...1.
  • But, according to Jack Lechner, who served as Miramax's head of development in the late '90s, neither writer is wrong.
  • (Hey, it was the '90s!) "That's why we went back and shot more Usher stuff [of him] saying 'Remember what I taught you in dance class' or whatever," he said.

"In some ways, we were [going] back to what were like the John Hughes movies I grew up on," producer Richard N. Gladstein told E! News in 2019. "They were all people that could be leading people, but who weren't necessarily before...and the group of them together made for a sort of shining ensemble."

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Here are 20 behind the scenes facts you might not know about She's All That...

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Published: Jan 29, 2026

Read time: 8 min

Category: Entertainment