Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Adam McKay Go Nuts for 'Step Brothers'
By Scott Huver, Special to Hollywood.com
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Moving Out
HW: When is the right time for someone to leave home?
Reilly: I was officially allowed to leave when I was 18. But had a job when I was 12. I did. I had a part time job when I was 12 – illegally. I was a dishwasher at this restaurant and they would wait for me to finish, an Eastern European restaurant on the south side of Chicago, and they'd wait for me to get there so the entire day's dishes. I'd get there after school and the whole kitchen would be full of dishes. I was like their little slave.
Ferrell: When did I leave? In terms of leaving I left home for college, and then I immediately moved back home, and lived at home for three years, so I guess that part is taken from my life. I think kids should move out of the house when they feel ready. For some, that's a 5-year-old child – they're ready. For others it's a 52-year-old man.
Reilly: I have a 6-year-old who's got a part time job.
Ferrell: And I have a Korean half-son who's 68-years-old. It's tough to budge him, to wake him up.
Reilly: And you don't speak Korean.
Ferrell: I don't speak Korean. He also suffers from sleep apnea, so it’s very hard to wake him up.
McKay: We have a dead uncle who still lives with us. He never moved out. He's stopped being a burden but he still lives with us, though. Parks himself in front of the TV.
Ferrell: We had so much fun working on Talladega Nights, the three of us, and we really kind of made a pact, a blood pact, to work on something else together, and I think it was John who was really the catalyst, who said "Let's really make a concerted effort.” You work on films with people, you have fun experiences, and then you say let's do it again and it slips through your fingers, so we really made a point to sit down and meet. I think we had a couple of dinners where threw out a bunch of different ideas and had some really good ones. And it was Adam who called both of us the next day, and said “I just thought of this other thing: What if you guys are two 40-year-old guys who live with your single parent? They meet each other, get married and you're forced to be stepbrothers.” We both were like “That's the idea.”
McKay: Then we looked into it and found there's a real dynamic going on, that it's like the increase of adult children living at home has gone up drastically in the last 10 years. Oh my God, this is actually real. I think that it's since 1995 it has gone up 70 percent, adults living at home. So that made it a little bit more legitimate.