In the scene, a then mostly unknown Cusack tilts under an open file cabinet like she’s playing limbo, leaps over a visiting toddler in an open doorway, and collides with a water fountain before finally getting the time-sensitive footage to the control room. For her part, Cusack loves the scene: in a 2000 interview with NPR, she called the movie “[one of] my favorite things I’ve ever done” and confessed that when she wrapped the scene, the crew gave her “one of those horseshoe wreaths like horses get at the end of a race.”

Cusack says she filmed the scene in fits and starts throughout production. “They shot it in lots of different pieces, and so it was like sort of a running — not a running gag, but a running theme that we were shooting all through the film,” she explained on Fresh Air. “There was maybe seven or eight pieces of it that we did at different times.” The actress also said she used a combination of knee pads, newspapers, and a silicon floor spray to make the file cabinet slide work.