'The Love Guru': Q&A with Justin Timberlake
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, June 20, 2008
It’s hard to top an Emmy-winning song like SNL’s “D**k in a Box,” but Justin Timberlake is up for the challenge. “It’s always been a dream of mine,” jokes the actor of amassing a resume of penile humor. “I’m happy that I was able to meet the mark.”
Of course, Timberlake is referring to his latest role as Jacques ‘Le Coq’ Grande--the well-endowed, Celine Dion-loving goalie of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the new comedy, The Love Guru. Hollywood.com caught up with the multi-talented Timberlake to find out more.
HW: How did you find out you had the role?
JT: [Mike Myers] called up and said "I’ve got this character and I could cast two or three other people in it, but they won’t do it the way you’ll do it, and I think you are awesome." I said “Alright.” I thought it was one of my friends, so I thought “Alright, stop.” And he was like “No, its Mike!” and he sent me the script. I read the script and I called him back. We talked about how the character would look, I threw some ideas at him, and he threw some ideas at me, and it just really became a collaborative process.
HW: How did you prepare for this outrageous character?
JT: The only real preparation that I did was on the accent. I worked on getting that down proper and showing up to set. I just stretched it as far as I could to make it funny…I had to actually learn the words to the Celine Dion song, but forgive me, I didn’t know all of them.