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- All About You was filmed
in 28 days on location throughout Los Angeles, San Francisco
and Napa Valley, California. Since the movie is a romantic comedy,
producer Michael Swanson and writer-director
Christine Swanson, a married team, decided
to begin principal photography on February 14th, Valentine’s
Day.
- Actress-director-producer-choreographer Debbie
Allen was impressed with the Swansons’ previous
film work and signed on to join the All About You cast before
even reading the screenplay. Debbie has been a great supporter
and mentor.
- Rickey Minor produced each
original song performed in All About You. Rickey was Whitney
Houston’s musical director for 18 years and has
worked with everyone from Luther Vandross,
Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder
to Yolanda Adams, Sting and
Patti LaBelle.
- The Swansons discovered that Christine was
pregnant with their first child one day before the start of
principal photography. They decided not to mention this new
development until after filming was complete. Christine
directed the entire movie while pregnant.
- Actress-singer-songwriter, Renée
Elise Goldsberry, who plays the lead character Nicole,
wrote the film’s title song, “All About You,”
the film’s final song, “Surprise,” as well
as “Simple” and the emotionally riveting song, “Soon.”
Renée has starred on Broadway as Nala in the Tony Award-winning
musical, The Lion King, and currently stars
on ABC's "One Life to Live" as Evangeline Williamson.
- The following recording artists expressed
their desire to secure the role of Brian: Brian McKnight,
Lenny Kravitz, Eric Benét,
Tony Rich, Kevon Edmonds and
Ginuwine and four of the six members of Take
6. Terron Brooks won the role after a very lengthy
casting process.
- That is the actual singing voice of Terron
Brooks, who plays Brian, over each of his character’s
songs (Terron also sang his own songs when he portrayed Eddie
Kendricks in The Temptations movie). Terron
was packed and ready to star in the Broadway musical Jesus
Christ Superstar but passed on Broadway when he was
offered the role of Brian. Terron won the role of Simba in the
Tony Award-winning production of The Lion King
on Broadway immediately after All About You
wrapped production.
- The roles of Toomie and Tim were each re-cast
one day before they were scheduled to be filmed. Lou
Myers (Toomie) and Rockmond Dunbar
(Tim) stepped up to the challenge of filling these roles at
the last minute with ease and excellence. Rockmond is now one
of the stars of Showtime’s hit drama series, Soul
Food.
- Jazz great Gerald Albright
plays the saxophone solo in the beautiful instrumental version
of the title song, “All About You” (over that very
important scene).
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