‘I Love You Man’: Secrets from the Set
By Carita Rizzo, Special to Hollywood.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
It becomes clear, not just from watching the action but from Rudd’s on-screen dad, JK Simmons, saying so, that they go through a lot of film on this set as the cast improvises its way to the funniest line delivery. Simmons recalls the highlight of the shoot, “[The best part was] sitting around two different dinner tables for a total of, like, four days just blowing take after take because we were all just cracking each other up to much.” But John Hamburg (Along Came Polly) seems to be having a blast, as are his actors. Says Jones, “This is like my dream come true. John is so good at establishing characters and the dynamics of relationships that it makes it easy to go into what we need to go into, and hopefully add something funny.” “We will do these little extended bits and runs that no one will ever enjoy except us,” says Rudd about him and new man pal Segel. “But that’s outside of the movie.” He’s probably right because by the looks of it, we’ll enjoy it all.