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At the time of shooting, Jack Nicholson had only appeared in two film roles, and had only worked with Roger Corman once, as the lead in The Cry Baby Killer.

According to Nicholson, " I went in to the shoot knowing I had to be very quirky because Roger originally hadn't wanted me.

In other words, I couldn't play it straight.

So I just did a lot of weird shit that I thought would make it funny.

" According to Dick Miller, all of the dialogue between his character and Mel Welles was ad-libbed.

During a scene in which writer Charles B. Griffith played a robber, Griffith remembers that " When and I forgot my lines, I improvised a little, but then I was the writer.

I was allowed to.

" However, Welles states that " Absolutely none of it was ad-libbed [...] every word in Little Shop was written by Chuck Griffith, and I did ninety-eight pages of dialogue in two days.