Just wish to keep on loving you! Drive Me Crazy’s Nicole Maris and Chase Hammond would still be together today — in keeping with Melissa Joan Hart.
“It’d be a bummer in the event that they weren’t [in combination]. I simply assume almost certainly married, however having the same struggles as every different married couple,” the actress, 43, exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Keep it in combination, as a result of they had been each very fiery personalities. So I feel like they'd have a large number of clashes, and whatnot. But I feel that [they've] two children and a wood fence.”
And, yes, they'd even have a treehouse!
Hart performed in style highschool scholar Nicole in the 1999 romantic comedy alongside Adrian Grenier’s outcast Chase. The former perfect friends level a fake courting to make their respective exes jealous, however their plan ultimately backfires after they fall for each and every different. Chase — a self-described walking punchline after his makeover — solidifies their relationship when he presentations up at the high school centennial dance. Hart, for her section, still has the necklace that she wore in the scene.
“I didn’t audition. It used to be truly constructed for me. I did display screen assessments with him, and Elijah Wood,” Hart explains to Us, noting that Wood, 39, first of all auditioned for the position of Chase. “And Adrian was once just this kind of actors that makes you, when I was operating with him I simply knew he was going to make me higher, as a result of what a powerhouse he is.”
“[Adrian] was once amazing to work with. Just bouncing off of him and dealing on scenes ceaselessly was actually a laugh in truth,” she adds. “One of the first instances I ever really used an appearing coach, she came to the set and would work with both of us and on days off. We would simply figure out the chemistry of those scenes. The tone and the feeling simply had such fun, truly, more or less creating the characters in combination. The chemistry was once an important part though and he was simply so fun to paintings with. We got along really well. And I feel that that presentations within the chemistry of the film.”
The pair didn’t just have chemistry with each and every other, then again. Off-screen, Hart and Grenier began dating their onscreen love interests “midway through” filming.
“I believe he ended up relationship Ali Larter [Dulce], and I dated the boy I used to be chasing within the movie, [Gabriel Carpenter, who performed Brad]. The lovely one. There had been like 4 different couples. And then there have been like four other couples that got here out of that film,” she reveals. “There was always a lot of hormones. Numerous hormones, a lot of not in point of fact gossip, however like hormones and figuring out together and hanging out in combination. But we were in Utah, so it’s a horny dry state, so there wasn’t numerous partying. And we had been working exhausting anyways so it was once principally simply putting out and stuff.”
Drive Me Crazy also starred Mark Webber (Dave), Susan May Pratt (Alicia) and Kris Park (Ray). “I had such a laugh on the set of Drive Me Crazy. We filmed for months and months in Utah, and I was doing my TV show in L.A. at the similar time. I never actually labored with a forged that was once all my similar age, and that was in point of fact fun to be with a bunch of teenagers. More like twentysomethings enjoying teenagers,” Hart provides to Us. “We had a blast doing that scene on the floaties that we did, in the river. It’s one of the vital first ones we filmed and that used to be actually fun.”
Hart was touring a lot whilst filming on the time. “I used to be running in reality arduous, because I didn’t sleep from Saturday until Monday night time. We would shoot nights on Saturday after which Sunday. And I’d have to go immediately back on Monday morning to start out on Sabrina [the Teenage Witch],” she notes. “I’d cross directly from the airport to the set, after which that evening I’d have to head file my animated series. But I used to be at an age that it was once possible.”
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The Clarissa, Explains It All alum also stored busy after the movie wrapped. She and Grenier, 43, whom she remains in touch with, starred in Britney Spears’ song video for her song “(You Drive Me) Crazy,” which was once the inspiration behind the movie’s name. She reunited with Spears “briefly behind the scenes” at the singer’s Las Vegas show in 2015, however the two “haven’t in point of fact reconnected” since.
As for the remainder of the solid? “I haven’t run into in point of fact any of them,” she says. “I believe like Adrian and I keep in touch, however no, we haven’t all in point of fact connected in years. And that means such a lot of folks in such a lot of instructions.”
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