Cameron Crowe dropped a major bombshell about the most iconic scene in “Say Anything.”

The director of the 1989 teen rom-com revealed that John Cusack did not want to film the sequence where Lloyd (Cusack) plays “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel from a boom box outside Diane’s (Ione Skye) window to win her back.

“He felt like it was a subservient act: Why does Lloyd have to be a wuss like that?” Crowe, 68, told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday. 6

“We struggled with how to get that scene,” Crowe added.

The filmmaker explained that cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs “knew that we’d been battling” with the scene, so they tricked Cusack, 59, into thinking he shot an alternative sequence. 6

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“We had actually shot the scene where Cusack had the boom box on the

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