If William H. Macy complains about the cold while filming the 1998 Gary Ross film Pleasantville in Malibu, no one in the Northeast or Midwest will sympathize.

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Hear him out. He was filming the classic scene where George Parker gets home one night confused to find his wife gone and no food waiting.

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In January, Malibu hosted two nights of shooting. Macy told us in a 2018 Role Recall interview about filming the fantasy comedy, "It was cold."

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I imagine there were three gigantic construction cranes holding plumbing the size of this room and pumping thousands of gallons of water.

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They created a street, so I could walk almost a block. I left the house and my underwear was soaked in two seconds the rain was that hard.

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I frozen to death, and we did give after take after take, and I screamed my voice away, ‘Where’s his dinner?!’ It turned into [King] Lear at the time. I’m on my knees wailing.

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Macy (who played their new all-American dad) was surprised at the premiere of the film, which starred Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon as siblings sucked into a 1950s black-and-white sitcom.

Gary backed me. He pulls on my coat and says, ‘Oh, I had to trim up that scene.’ I watched the film. As I leave the house, I ask, ‘Where’s my dinner?’ Cut! The end.

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