Apt Pupil
(1998)
John's Thoughts
I wrote dialog and read the off-screen teacher's voice in the opening of Apt Pupil and it almost got put into the film, until at the last moment, we had Chris McQuarrie read it instead. So I lost that cameo. I also played a music teacher in the film conducting the high school band in the graduation sequence. But I cut myself out because the scene was superfluous. I made it into the blooper reel! I looked good in that suit too. One other Ottman cameo did make it in the film, however. The doctor running down the hall and attending to Ian McKellen is my mother. She weaseled her way onto the set by becoming medical consultant for the film. She then drove Bryan so crazy about the "doctor" in the film not being realistic, Bryan said the magic words: "Why don't you just do it?" So Mary Ottman, the medical consultant in the film is also the doctor; this helped helped bring the number of times "Ottman" appears in the film to an obnoxious six :) As is traditional in our films, Bryan's parents are also in the film. His father and step-mom are the hospital administrators, and the secretary who tells Todd to go see Mr. French is his mother, who was upgraded to scripted lines this time around: In Suspects, she played a nurse at the nurse's station who simply looks up when she is asked for a fax machine.
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