Devon Sawa said that Macaulay Culkin was the first choice to play the disturbed young fan in the music video for Eminem's hit 'Stan'
first, I believe,” he said. “I think that they wanted him, and he wasn't available, or didn't want to do it or whatever."The video sees Sawa play the titular character, a disturbed young Eminem fan who writes the rapper increasingly angry letters as he seeks to form a friendship with the musician. Sawa lip-syncs many of Eminem’s lyrics in character as Stan — and he didn’t know that reciting the song’s words would be part of the job.
English singer Dido plays Stan’s pregnant girlfriend in the video — a fitting piece of casting, as “Stan” prominently samples her song 1998 “Thank You.” The video depicts a distressing turn of events for the couple: Stan locks his girlfriend in the trunk of his car and drives it off a bridge as he records one final message for Eminem.
Since the release of the song, “stan” has worked its way into common parlance, referring to intense fandom, particularly directed toward musicians. The word'Awww Baby!' Ashanti and Nelly are pregnant and engagedToni Braxton was told to hide her lupus diagnosis: 'People get scared around sick celebrities'Will Smith rocks 'Men in Black' theme song during surprise Coachella appearance with J BalvinKesha updates 'TiK ToK' lyrics to 'F--- P.
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