'Wild West Show': Vaughn, Favreau, Billingsley and Ahmed Stay Bonded from Startup to Stardom
By Scott Huver, Hollywood.com Staff
|
Friday, February 15, 2008
Favreau: I think when you share a common experience, whether it’s a good or bad one like we both did with the experience of Swingers and our lives changing at the same time, there’s not a lot of people who could relate to that. And you share that, and you sort of mature at the same rate. We’re very different people, but we share a very similar perspective on life and certainly on comedy and on movies…I know that when Vince comes into the editing room, what he likes I’m going to like. And he helps keep me true to what I do, and I like to do the same with him as I collaborate with him on projects. So I think we help steer each other a little bit and help sort of recalibrate the other person as you sort of get lost in going out to that big world with a lot of different voices.
Vaughn: I don’t have a lot of friends in Hollywood necessarily. But Jon’s a guy who I met, and we both kind of shared ideas and really like to collaborate, so I think we share tastes and the stuff that we like to do. And he’s a great guy; Jon’s a great father, and he’s funny. And he’s a guy I’ll go to with whatever I’m doing, and I’ll ask advice and say, ‘What do you think?’ And I do the same for him, so I think it’s grounded in a place that we both started with each other, and also I feel like he elevates me as well.
Ahmed: There’s that support, coming down to the comedy clubs and stuff, watching me night after night [laughs] trying to work out a joke or whatever and a year later, turn a corner and find a new angle or a good story. And just having him there in the trenches with me was always really a great feeling to have a friend like that come down and support you. So we always just had a sort of mutual respect and support for each other.