'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
Vaughn: With Peter: a lot of child stars, when they get to a certain age, it’s very difficult because no one wants to see you anymore because you’re so recognizable for what you did younger. And you don’t have a normal kind of maturation process where you have normal social playground stuff. Everyone kind treats you really well and then all of a sudden people don’t want to be around you. And Peter’s work ethic to become a producer and get involved behind the camera was like nothing I ever saw. I’d say, ‘Let’s go to the race track,’ or ‘Let’s go do something.’ And he’d say, ‘I have to work from 10:00 to 6:00.’ I’d say, ‘Peter, you got nothing to work on.’ He’d say, ‘Well, I’m writing a screenplay. I’m going to try to put something together,’ for years with no results. And so for me, I found it easy to root for,
Jon Favreau: With Vince, there were a lot of hard luck stories with him--like the Buffalo Bills. He’d get there. He’d get to the Super Bowl. And it’s tough when you’re a good-looking guy. And he wasn’t really playing off his comedy. He was never sent out on that kind of role. I’d be sent out on all the funny stuff. He’d be sent out on all the good-looking parts, and then you can’t be the lead, because the lead’s going to be a star. So you’re going to be the unlikable competitor to the lead, like he was in Rudy. And then that’s the part that’s not that important usually, and he got trimmed down. It certainly didn’t showcase his skills, but he was always very, very funny behind the scenes.