'Wild West Show': Vaughn, Favreau, Billingsley and Ahmed Stay Bonded from Startup to Stardom
By Scott Huver, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Vince Vaughn: I was not a good student. I had learning disabilities. I was bright, but I learned in different ways, and some things came easier. I wasn’t a great athlete, but acting was always something that I really loved, but it took a lot of hard work. In fact, because I did have some learning disabilities, it seemed like a lot of things were hard work. So the one thing I really responded to in Ahmed was here’s this guy who’s Egyptian and wants to be an actor. There’re no parts for him, but it’s just his tenaciousness that I really responded to. I knew what it felt like to feel like boy, there’s not an easy way in, but you really want to try to work at something.
Billingsley: We’ve really formed a friendship, and that was what was first and foremost. And I was trying to transition at that point in my career and producing it into stuff, and we just really became great friends and then had an opportunity to work again later.