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
Suiting up
HW: This movie features the finest collection of random logo t-shirts ever assembled on screen.
McKay: I have to give it up to our costume designer Susan Matheson. She went above and beyond. She just looked like everywhere and came with hundreds of tee shirts and it became like this whittling down process, which almost got absurd. I would get called into her office every two days to take the number from 80 to 60 and then Will would go in and take the number from 60 to 50 and then John would look at his. I think more time spent was spent on the tee shirts than the actual production of the movie.
Reilly: You want to do retro-seeming t-shirts, like these are the t-shirts they've been wearing since that time. But the fashion now is to have old-looking t-shirts and we didn't want it to look hipster-ish. She ended up custom-making a lot of stuff. So those pajama bottoms for Will were made out of Star Wars sheets.
McKay: John wanted to be in his underwear at one point and there was a big debate. The tighty-whitey joke has been played out, its been done too many times, so Susan went and found the colored tighties which we decided had not been done, so you could get away with that.
Ferrell: Pablo Cruise has seen one of the t-shirts in a trailer and wants to play at the premiere, which I know the studio is excited about, as kids love Pablo Cruise.
McKay: It's an event. They're concerned about too many helicopters over the premiere party.