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The Roommate (2011)

Director: Christian E. Christiansen

Plot Summary[]

When college freshman Sara (Minka Kelly) arrives on campus for the first time, she befriends her roommate, Rebecca (Leighton Meester), unaware that the girl is becoming dangerously obsessed with

Trivia[]

  • Leighton Meester was originally cast as Sara but then opted to take the role of Rebecca instead.
  • Minka Kelly was 30 while playing an 18-year-old in this movie.
  • According to Aly Michalka, the shower scene took 13 hours to film. Additionally Michalka was not naked in the shower scene, she wore a bikini.
  • Nina Dobrev and Kat Graham also appear in CW Teen Supernatural Horror Drama The Vampire Diaries together.
  • Cam Gigandet himself played a role similar to that of Rebecca, as a psychopath obsessed with a woman in the 2011 film Trespass, which was also released the same year as this film.
  • Both Billy Zane and Frances Fisher previously worked together in the 1997 film Titanic.
  • Nathan Parsons who played the role of the coffee shop cashier also starred in The Originals, a spinoff to The Vampire Diaries which both Nina Dobrev and Kat Graham were also the main cast members.
  • The original script had Rebecca (Leighton Meester) have a fight with Irene (Danneel Ackles) in the nightclub bathroom before killing her with Sara (Minka Kelly) discovering her dead body during the final confrontation at Irene's apartment. This was rewritten to have Rebecca seduce Irene and kiss her before kidnapping her.
  • Both Cam Gigandet and Aly Michalka previously worked together in the 2010 teen comedy film Easy A.