Helen Hunt, the Academy Award-winning actor who gives life to tornado chaser Jo Harding in Twister, says that her original character was slightly different from what we saw in the final cut. Along with Jami Gertz, her co-star in the movie who plays Bill Paxtons love interest, and of course, her rival in terms of fighting over Bill Harding, Hunt decided some changes had to be made to their characters because they didnt want the audience to think they were banal and catty.

In the original film, Bill Harding arrives in Oklahoma to serve Jo some divorce papers. His new girlfriend, Melissa, comes along, and shes clearly not used to a country lifestyle. Jo is hesitant to accept the papers because she still has feelings for him, but its not her attitude that convinces Bill to go back to his old gig as a tornado chaser. Its an epidemic of...