'Step Brothers': Q&A with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, June 23, 2008
If you think getting a straight answer out of a politician is hard, try getting one out of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Coming straight out of a scene of their new movie Step Brothers the two stars had a hard time keeping the improv out of the conversation, but they tried really hard.
Hollywood.com: You two worked together on Talladega Nights, did that lead to a shorthand on set this time?
John C. Reilly: Yeah, well that’s where we developed the hand signals.
Will Ferrell: It is like a 300 page, Morse code like booklet that we pass out to the crew, to visitors, you guys will get it later on your departure.
JCR: The movie is virtually indecipherable if you don’t have this book too so, the studio coughed up the cost to provide one to every audience member.
WF: We are going to hand them out at the theater as well to decipher the film, but we think it will be a cool novelty item 20 years from now.
HW: How did the writing work?
WF: Actually, I shouldn’t even say this – we farmed it out to China. There are a group of writers who work, they are called the Omega group and they are pretty close to our voice, there were some cultural things that were slightly different.
JCR: All the script notes came from India. And they would just talk to the writers in China.
WF: It was a very belabored process, but we didn’t have to do any of it, which was great.
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