Having an opportunity to work with these guys was a real dream come true. Mark Wahlberg: I’ve been dying to do a comedy, and these guys took me to dinner and bought a bunch of nice wine and said, “Do you want to do a movie?” I said, “Are you kidding me?” If you do the wrong kind of comedy you never get a chance to do it again if you come from my background. If he was up for it we thought it’d be a fun kind of thing to do. Will Ferrell: We just were big fans of Mark’s, and just thought that no one’s really used him in a comedy this way. There have been a lot of buddy cop comedies over the years. The Other Guys comes out August 6 this year, just in time for you to be totally sick of actual action movies and ready for a summer movie that is actually intentionally making you laugh. here) Included in the interview are three brand-new images from the film that you'll only find at the sites that visited the set- and given how small that 30 Rock office was, there weren't that many of us. Below is the interview with Ferrell and Wahlberg, and we'll be running all the rest of the interviews throughout the day.
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Way to put us in our place.ĭuring breaks between scenes we got a chance to talk with all the principal actors as well as McKay and screenwriter Chris Henchy. While we journalists moaned about being stuck inside on a Saturday afternoon, this kid and his family were thrilled to be in the very room. During on break Ferrell came over to chat with the entire family, take countless photos and sign T-shirts, and chatted amiably with them about their experience in New York. You can call this overkill, but I swear this is true- we were joined as visitors on the set by a family from Kentucky who were there because the youngest son was a Make-a-Wish kid, and apparently had the dream of visiting a Hollywood set. As an unabashed fan of everything they've done together so far, I was really encouraged to see this kind of collaboration happening between them on The Other Guys as well. I couldn't think of a better way to describe the working relationship between an actor and a director doing their fourth movie together the two clearly get one another in a way that makes any great collaboration possible, and though Ferrell is the star, he also recognizes to help McKay turn the movie into what he wants to make it. At one point we could hear McKay telling Ferrell he was "like the coach's son," basically telling him he was in charge among the fellow actors. Though we couldn't see McKay from the monitors we were watching, it was fascinating to watch the way Ferrell works with him from on camera.