The 1982 world of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” came to life Thursday night in a fundraising table read that included Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel, John Legend, Ray Liotta, Julia Roberts, Shia Labeouf, Morgan Freeman and Henry Golding.The hour-long streaming event took place on the Facebook page for Penn’s nonprofit Core (Community Organized Relief Effort) and LiveXLive as well as criminal justice reform group Reform Alliance.
Dane Cook hosted and Freeman narrated the unrehearsed read, which came off with no noticeable fumbles in a dozen key scenes from the coming-of-age dramedy.Much of the attention paid to the starry event — originally scheduled for a month ago but delayed by “technical difficulties” — focused on Pitt and Aniston performing together, 15 years after their divorce.
Pitt voiced Brad Hamilton, played by Judge Reinhold in the film, and Aniston played Phoebe Cates’ Linda Barrett character.
The duo re-enacted the movie’s deeply embarrassing swimsuit sequence.
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