Robin Wright explains why there won't be a sequel to 'The Princess Bride'
Robin Wright has some disappointing news for fans of "The Princess Bride."
The "House of Cards" alum not only confirmed there's no sequel to the 1987 romantic comedy in the works but explained why she doesn't believe it would be feasible anymore.
"No, that will never happen," Wright told AARP in an interview published Sept. 18. "Sometime after we hit the 30-year mark, the cast did a Zoom call, and a couple of actors were like, 'We’ve been asked if we’ll do a sequel,' and I was like, 'Well, a lot of us are going to be in a wheelchair.'"
However, the Emmy-nominated actor said the cult classic will always hold a special place in her heart as she reminisced on her experience with the cast including Cary Elwes, Rob Reiner, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest.
"We laughed so hard making that movie, we’d have to cut camera and start over again because it was such a giggle-fest. Normally, you go to a set, you act, you wrap, and you go back to your hotel room alone. But we took over the hotel, and Cary and I and Rob Reiner and Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest would all have a potluck dinner in the big kitchen. It was going home with people you had fun with to play music, eat good food and commune," she said.
Wright starred in the fairy tale adventure as a young woman named Buttercup opposite Elwes, who played love interest and farmhand Westley. The movie was an adapation of WiIliam Goldman's 1973 fantasy novel of the same name.
In 2020, Wright reunited with Elwes, Reiner, Guest, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn and Billy Crystal for a Wisconsin Democrats fundraiser where the cast read "The Princess Bride" script.
Reiner, who directed the original movie, read as the grandfather reading a story to his sick grandson.
Nearly four decades later, Wright said young girls who love the fantasy film still come up to her citing the classic line "Hello. As you wish!”
She added that she also has fans of 1994's "Forrest Gump" who approach her and say "run, Forrest, run."