Bill Lawrence Told Us The Funny Stories Behind How Florida’s ‘Bananas’ Filming Requirements And Wildlife Impacted How They Made Bad Monkey

Interview with Bill Lawrence

Transcript

00:00What was one of the weirder requests or questions you had to ask when it came to pulling off these like big action packed moments in this show?

00:08All right. On this particular show, it's going to sound very specific.

00:13And so you'll have to reach. But so it's interesting for Carl.

00:17He's an icon in Florida. OK, the huge American bestselling novelist.

00:22But he was also a reporter for the Miami Herald. He's an environmental crusader.

00:25And he's just a huge figure there. And he wouldn't really let us do it unless we shot in Florida for Florida.

00:31The hardest thing is the stuff, all the transitions in the show and the animals and the nature.

00:35That's not fake. They were just roaming around set, disrupting production.

00:39And so the hardest thing about doing all this stuff is Carl's environmentalist and everything in the keys is set up to still protect nature.

00:47And so it's like, hey, we want to blow up a house.

00:49And they're like, well, we'll let you do it in this 60 minutes that the turtle eggs, you know, have not been preserved yet.

00:58And that the key deer that really would wander around on set aren't there.

01:03Like even in the show, there's a thing if you watch it that there's streetlights are red.

01:07That's real. It's real because it's during the hatching season.

01:10And if the streetlights are white, the turtles think it's the moon and they walk in towards the roads and get smushed on the roads.

01:16So we literally would go, hey, we want to do a big action scene.

01:19And they would go, you have you can only do it between like six and six twenty on Thursday.

01:24It was bananas. And these animals were everywhere.

01:27I can't tell you. There's one scene is Easter egg.

01:28I haven't told anybody, I don't think.

01:30But Alex Moffitt from SNL was acting in one scene.

01:34And, you know, we wanted to because Carl support all these animals.

01:36And one of the key deer, which are tiny little deer that can drink saltwater and are everywhere there.

01:42They look like dogs just roamed out and started eating the brush next to him.

01:46And he goes, get out of here. I'm talking.

01:48And the thing looked at him and just walked away.

01:49And when people watch that in the show, they're like, oh, how did you get that deer to do that?

01:53I'm like, we didn't. It just it was they're just everywhere.

01:56So anyways, it was really challenging because of how beautiful it is.