Falk, 60, appeared on the Nov. 4 episode of The Patrick LabyorSheaux with Patrick Labyorteaux<\/a>, who also starred in the 1989 movie. Falk appeared in Heathers as Heather McNamara, while Labyorteaux played bully (and rapist) Ram Sweeney. Winona Ryder<\/a> played Veronica, with Shannen Doherty<\/a> as Heather Duke and the late Kim Walker as Heather Chandler. Christian Slater played the murderous J.D. and Lance Fenton played Ram\u2019s accomplice Kurt.<\/p>\n During the podcast, Falk shared that she never did any screen tests or chemistry reads for her role, which she was put in at the last minute. Labyorteaux, 60, asked how her relationship was with the other cast members and also explained his own relationship with them.<\/p>\n New World Pictures<\/p>\n Lisanne Falk in ‘Heathers’<\/p>\n \u201cShannen Doherty was a pistol,\u201d he said. \u201cAlways has been.\u201d Doherty, who died in 2024 at the age of 53<\/a>, worked on Little House on the Prairie<\/a>, as did Labyorteaux, but at different times.<\/p>\n \u201cMy experience with Shannen is that she’s like a firebrand and you can get along with her or you cannot get along with her, but she’s very opinionated and very outspoken and can be really fun or really terrible depending on your experience with her,\u201d he said. \u201cI had a great time with her.\u201d<\/p>\n He also praised Ryder, 54, for being a \u201csweetheart\u201d and said that after the movie, when they ran into events, she would always come over and say hello.<\/p>\n Falk said her experiences with her castmats was \u201cnot dissimilar\u201d from Labyorteaux\u2019s. Ryder and Doherty still had to attend school, while she was older. \u201cI remember the first day we had to get all the scenes and then they had to keep going off and I had to do my close-ups with basically the script supervisor,\u201d she said. \u201c. . . That was another learning experience of how to act when the person that was supposed to be there isn’t there.\u201d<\/p>\n She called Walker, who died in 2001 at age 32, a \u201cmore serious\u201d person than she was. \u201cKim was definitely see she intimidated the heck out of me,\u201d she said, which was \u201cperfect\u201d for their on-screen dynamic.<\/p>\n New World Pictures\/Getty<\/p>\n The cast of ‘Heathers.’ From left: Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Winona Ryder.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then Shannen, she just came in there and she was always saying stuff and she basically kind of rubbed all of us the wrong way initially,\u201d Falk said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was very well known that she really wanted the part of Veronica and she vocalized and made a lot of noise about that,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo we just all kind of tolerated her.\u201d<\/p>\n Falk said she became \u201creally, really good friends\u201d with Ryder. Falk lived near set, so even on days when she wasn\u2019t needed, she would often hang out on set with Ryder and see what the film crew was doing. \u201cThat was really my film school because I learned like what everybody on every job did,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She and Ryder became so close, in act, that after filming, she accompanied Ryder to Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s winery when the latter actress was doing screen tests for 1992\u2019s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Coppola even had Falk audition, and she described him as \u201cvery cool,\u201d even though she was \u201cdevastated\u201d that she wasn\u2019t cast.<\/p>\n Falk also told Labyorteaux that Heathers was her favorite project. \u201cI peaked at 23,\u201d she joked. \u201cHeathers is my favorite role. My relationship with Winona that came from that and just meeting everybody and the whole experience and just the movie and the role and how it all turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2014, Doherty spoke to Entertainment Weekly<\/a> for this oral history of the film. She said she didn\u2019t remember wanting to play Veronica and that she \u201cloved\u201d her role as Heather Duke.<\/p>\n \u201cI loved the fact that she started out weak in the group,\u201d she said. \u201cBullimic and the dog that you kick. And then she became \u2014 their term \u2014 a \u2018megabitch.\u2019 I loved that.\u201d<\/p>\n Heathers became a cult classic and has also been adapted into a stage musical, which is playing now off-Broadway<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8866e25c1447cbbe98de4b9f64dfe759.jpeg\"\/)
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