Ridin’ High on the ‘Pineapple Express’
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Danny McBride
Character: Red
Occupation: Pot Dealer
Hollywood.com: Did you read the script thinking you were going to be the dead head?
Danny McBride: When they gave it to me I was like, 'I die 30 pages in? You motherfuckers.'
HW: You’ve got a great fight scene with Dale and Saul, in an even greater outfit.
DM: Yes. One of the first things when David [Gordon Green] asked if I wanted to do this movie he said, 'The first thing is that you're going to shave your armpits.' I was like, 'Why, David?' He said, 'Well, that's what you're going to need to figure out.' The fight scene was actually a lot of fun. We spent like a week doing that… It was pretty hardcore. We would just beat each other all day long. Break fingers, yeah, It was fun.
HW: You sustained a pretty hard bong hit to the head - literally. How did you handle that?
DM: That was great. Franco is a dedicated actor and he obviously didn't pull anything. It was a breakaway glass bong, but it was actually filled with water and so it had a little weight to it…I got a little concussed.
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