'Step Brothers': Q&A with Adam McKay, Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, June 23, 2008
HW: Richard, has he ever given you a line and afterward you couldn’t believe those words came out of your mouth?
RJ: I actually said a line and I begged him not to use it…After I said it I was like, ‘did I say that?’ I said, ‘Oh Adam you can’t use that.’ He said, ‘Oh I think it might work.’
MS: When this movie comes out it’s going to be totally new to me because it’s literally like childbirth. Everyday I go home and have no memory.
HW: How would you define this movie tonally?
AM: Obviously seeing what Judd [Apatow] was doing [because] he has a lot of freedom when he stays real. ‘Let’s try to do one being a little more real and look at all you get out of it without going so absurd. You can hook people in these ways.’ Within two weeks we blew that rule. They have a fight where they punch 12-year-olds in the face, dogs attacking people. I was like I’m not going to have dogs in this movie. I always have wild dogs and they’re tons of dogs all over the set. MS: They knocked me down.
RJ: One of the dogs bit me in the ass…I turned to Adam and said, ‘did you get that on film?’ He said, ‘yeah we got it.’ Today I said, this is the scene after…maybe I should be limping when I come in.’ He said, ‘I don’t think we’re going to be using it.’ I got a tetanus shot.
Photo: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly (Sony)