'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 Favreau, what we accomplished with Swingers try to provide opportunities if someone was kind of trying hard and working in that way. There’s something about that that’s motivating and inspiring to me.
Favreau: Off of the dailies of Swingers Vince got a holding deal with the television network, the Warner Brothers network--The Frog, remember? And he had some sort of holding money, and it was like we hit the Lotto. It was like when Joe Pesci gets made in Goodfellas. We were all celebrating, and he was taking us all out to dinner because he had whatever it was, $50,000 or a $100,000. It was more than we’ve ever seen. So we were all really enjoying life, and then Swingers hadn’t even come out yet. Then he did a pilot and then all of a sudden [Steven] Spielberg offered him Jurassic Park 2, and that’s when he almost couldn’t do it because of his holding deal. And I think Spielberg got on the phone. He did that, and then so there was a big, big thing with him at that point. Then there was sort of a lull. He was doing a lot of roles that he was getting a lot of recognition for critically, but nothing really popped until he started doing the comedies again.