00:00It's also the 25th anniversary of Wet Out American Summer here at Sundance.
00:03We were chatting in a panel yesterday about that, about how we sort of have
00:09grown a certain confidence in how to do these things because we had this group
00:14that we met in college and then we support each other and kind of like say
00:22yes to people's comedic instincts and trust and all that and so it we have
00:27learned to create that kind of environment and want to always try to be
00:31among friends who get it and want to be there and are excited about it.
00:38Is it true that the working title of this film was quote I'll take the ham?
00:42Yes and I think it still should be. I've been fighting that battle.
00:45Yeah, what? So?
00:46I think the title currently is Fishin.
00:48Whoa, Jesus.
00:50Wow.
00:51Wow.
00:52That was what it was called when I when I got the script that's what it was.
00:54So that's what you said, you said yes to a movie thinking you were saying yes to I'll take the ham.
00:58You're talking about it being called Gail Daughtry and the Shawshank Redemption.
01:02But we figured that was used already so we'll just.
01:06But if you ever incident just the celebrity sex pass?
01:08Yeah, we've considered a lot of things.
01:10We in fact.
01:11Considered a lot of things.
01:12Yesterday at our sales meeting we actually scrolled through our brainstorm document which has about 400 names.
01:20Oh, any other that come to the top of your mind?
01:25Two and eight or two.
01:27Okay.
01:28What else?
01:29Three.
01:30I do like I'll take the ham.
01:32How did you know when you were writing this you wrote in the Johns as plain versions of themselves?
01:40Or was it like TK celebrity that will say yes to your version of John in mind?
01:45Like because we've known John and we we thought that the ham that is ham ham ham not slattery not slattery.
01:52We had slattery in mind.
01:54We had slattery in mind as well.
01:55I feel like I still don't know them, but but we always, you know, we've been friends with John for quite some time.
02:01And so we thought it would be a nice, you know, and just the fact that that John and the two Johns are connected in our minds because of Mad Men and they also happen to be both incredibly funny, amazing actors that we also both have worked.
02:16We've worked with both of them in the past and our friends with them.
02:19So it was a perfect storm.
02:21And I believe I also read I think it was ham to slattery a text or call being like they're trying to get you for the movie.
02:30Yeah, was it that you weren't answering their email?
02:33No, I was in Budapest and it was two in the one in the morning or whatever, and I was jet lagged in a wake and ham said David Wayne's trying to get ahold of you.
02:42He wants is a script or a part or something.
02:44I said tell him to send it and he did and I sat up and read it and then I think I called you right away.
02:49It was like yeah, yeah, and then I'm like right then and I was so funny and I feel like you read it.
02:55That's that could have been the jet lag. It could have been the time lapse.
02:59He was definitely had a scroll not a full read. I read the whole.
03:03No, I was a full read or was it more that your assistant gave you the book?
03:07I mean, only my part, but not here. Yeah, he didn't control me to just my part.
03:11Yeah, how many lines do I have bullshit bullshit with the new the folks who are new to the to the Wayne
03:19Marino universe? Do you have a do you guys have a Wayne re not what or do you just go
03:25by Wayne Marino? Our production entity is called a hot dog. So that's is that true?
03:31I never know. Okay, we go by you vote someone else to tell me when they're doing a bit and
03:35when it's no, it'll be nothing company is you see the credits of the movie or wanderlust
03:39it'll say in association with a hot dog. Okay, the folks that are new to the hot dog.
03:46What what do you what can you say about what it was like to work on this production? What what stood
03:52out to you about making one of their movies? I am so inspired and touched by their relationship
04:02and the community that they've built and sustained and like watered and and you know,
04:08it's flourished a million times over. But the fact that they just keep coming together to create stuff
04:13including their band, you know, they performed last night till one in the morning. I think that to me
04:18that's one of the most impressive. Zoe, I'm so sorry. I have to interrupt and correct you. It was half past one.
04:24Yeah, sorry. Okay, half past one. Actually, I heard it was 1 15. Guys, maybe we can meet somewhere in
04:30between and then just move on because I'm starting to get a little bit tweet. Yeah, anyways, uh, I'm sorry
04:36about what just happened by the way. I really misspoke. Um, that's one knock down on the good enough
04:43job for the ring toss guys. Maybe it's time for you to sit back and listen. I know you're a work in progress
04:49than I think. All right. Well, I just, um, I, I think that they're amusing and I am very impressed
04:55that, um, by what they do and how long they've been doing it together. That's very sweet. That's very
05:00kind. Thank you for saying that. I agree with Zoe. I had the same feeling. The atmosphere on fat was
05:07very inspiring. It was, I felt that they were, all of us, we were playing like kids, like it, it should be.
05:19We were like playing with each other. And, uh, there was this lightness. There was never ever tension.
05:26And this is a big thing because sometimes it's very hard not to have tension if there are not so many
05:35weeks or time to, to shoot or, or we have to do so many funny things. And, uh, the atmosphere was really,
05:44really inspired. I felt happy every single day. And, uh, we also, we got along so well.
05:53It was playful. It was really playful. It was inspiring.
05:56Oh, to that point, David, we were having lunch one point. I think the, how many, 15 day shoot or
06:03something like, uh, 21, 21. I mean, a very short shoot. It's a miracle. It's a miracle.
06:08Bill sat down next to me and said, I've never shot anything this, or this is the slowest I've
06:12shot something in a while. And I was like, how do you shoot anything faster than this?
06:17But to Sabrina's point, you never felt, there was a whole sequence. Ken and I were doing a
06:23scene and I kept slapping in the face. And, and it's not, I don't think it's in the movie,
06:28but, and it probably was never going to be in the movie, but no one ever told me, by the way,
06:32stop slapping him in the face because it's, I think I do. We're not going to, right away.
06:37There were bits that we were doing and doing and doing, and there was never a like, okay,
06:41guys, come on. We got to get, we got to get this. You never felt like, despite the shortness of the,
06:46of the whole, you know, shoot, there was never a feeling of like, you know, we, we got to stop
06:52screwing around. We got to get this. And it, that to me was like, you know, just the fun of it.
06:57Yeah. We had six months to shoot this movie.
07:00Yeah. It, it was incredible. Real.
07:03We were talking a little bit yesterday because it's also the 25th anniversary of
07:06Wet Out American Summer here at Sundance. We were chatting in a panel yesterday about that,
07:12about how we've sort of have grown a certain confidence in how to do these things because
07:18we had this group that we met in college and then we support each other and, uh, kind of like say yes to
07:28people's comedic instincts and trust and all that. And so it, we have learned to create that kind of
07:34environment and want to always try to be among friends who get it and want to be there and are
07:39excited about it. What's the, what's the thing that's most quoted back to you guys from any of
07:45your movies? Like if someone comes up to you and is like, I love what happened or anything, do you get?
07:48There's a lot of stuff from Wet Hat. You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore.
07:53Yeah. It's one of them. I get, he's doing it. He's actually doing it,
07:57which is Joe Latruglio watching me, uh, save a bunch of kids in a, in a raft that's about to go over a,
08:03uh, a cliff, uh, you know, a waterfall, but it's just Joe going, he's doing it. He's actually doing
08:10it. Cause they didn't have the budget to actually shoot the other side.
08:13I know you're like, go ahead, make my day. No, that's, uh, that's not your move.
08:18Oh, right, right, right.
08:19Does anybody know anyone who has used, who has used or had the chance to use a hall pass?
08:31Usually I just cheat. Yeah. I like to cheat. Just skip the hall pass. Yeah. My one quote.
08:40You got it. Don't do anything else. Yeah. The rest of the day. That's the hot mess.
08:45Okay. I don't have sex with non-celebrities, so it's hard for me. Right. Oh, I know. I'm a very,
08:53very faithful person. I'm devoted. That's the point of the hall pass. And then you're still
08:58under the category of faithful. Yeah. But that, that system doesn't really work.
09:05As we find out from the movie, that system doesn't work. Um, does anyone, obviously like a big thing
09:13people will want to talk about with this movie is like, you don't get good comedies anymore and
09:17whatever. Does anyone have a really awesome memory recently or just their favorite of like watching
09:23a comedy in a theater? Like what, what's everyone's most recent? I went to see Naked Gun, the new Naked
09:31Gun. And I was in Vancouver and the theater was packed and it was, I laughed so hard. I cried and
09:37it was so fun. And everybody was just, yeah, it was like, it was just, it was awesome. It felt very
09:43nostalgic, which is sad that that was the feeling I felt, but yeah. I don't know how recent it was.
09:49It's a couple of years old, but, um, to me, triangle of sadness, when everybody starts getting sick,
09:54is one of the funniest speeds in any movie and how long it went. I was laughing out loud. I don't know
10:00if I was supposed to, but it was fantastic. He was sliding around. That's a laugh. That's played for
10:12laughs. Oh yeah, for sure. Until the, you know, take a turn. Dark comedy. Yeah. Ben, let us say
10:19some stuff. Yeah. Ben, what's, what, what comedy have you seen, Ben? No, don't throw it to me. Come on.
10:24Uh, all right. Sound like, what comedy have you seen, Miles? Uh, hmm. Um, you know what? I'm loved,
10:34I'm still here. Um, but that, that wasn't famous. This conversation is the problem. We need more
10:41comedies with a capital C in our theaters. I had the same experiences as Zoe seeing a naked gun. I was
10:48like, ah, great. A big, funny comedy that is trying first and foremost, and basically only to be funny.
10:54Yeah. And I'm busy that like, you just, I kept feeling when I was watching the movie
10:58that there were things that seemed probably complicated and annoying to shoot and took a
11:01long time for like one little gag that was totally irrelevant to the, it's the kind of thing on set
11:06that someone would, the producer would come and be like, we have to cut that. We don't have time.
11:09We don't have the money, whatever. And it was filled with that. And I was just like, oh, this is so
11:14fucking fun and you don't get these movies anymore. And I just was, I was like, this is awesome.
11:19I know. Yeah. Yeah. And also I think that the comedy in a movie theater,
11:23it's a complete different experience. And the ritual is really important. And the fact that you
11:29listen to everybody's else laughter, it creates such a sense of warmth and of belonging like music
11:38does, for example, that same kind of feeling of belonging and sharing things. It's infectious.
11:45Yeah, exactly. Also it, it, I saw John Wilson's movie, The History of Concrete last night,
11:52it had a sponsored screening for JP Morgan. So it was a lot of bankers and bit, and you were like,
11:57watching these people walking, going, I wonder what this is going to be like.
12:01Five minutes later, everybody is howling at some really sort of bawdy kind of gross jokes. I mean,
12:07it immediately like everybody dropped whatever they came in with and, and, and we're all laughing at
12:15the same moment. And you couldn't have had a more different sort of disparate group of people. And
12:21you know, you, you, that that's what you're, you want, you mean you, you know, the, the, the,
12:25just to be together in that, in, in that room in the dark, all laughing at the same moment is
12:31incredible. Yes. Does anyone here have a really good or fun job or career that they almost did
12:38instead of this? What, what, do you know something I don't know? What are you pointing at me for?
12:48I mean, I suppose you guys could be at, you could, your band. How's good could it have been? I mean,
12:52if it, how, well, for those of us old enough to have been doing this for so long, bro, how good could
12:57you have gotten it something else? No. Well, not, you were good at it, but like just a good answer
13:02for it. You could have been really bad at it. I was a limo driver and I got lost all the time.
13:10They didn't have cell phones and I was just driving people around. I ran out of gas once
13:15with people in the back of the car. That's not a great limo driver. Yeah. But it's a good story.
13:21I got fired. No, but what happened at that moment, that night, where were those people going?
13:26I can't keep you. You don't know how to get anywhere. And I was like, you're a nice kid,
13:30but you're an idiot. Come on. I always thought I was going to be a writer, director, actor,
13:36and then I ended up becoming a writer, director, actor, producer, so.
13:41So you never know where you're. You never know where life's going to change. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy.
13:45Fair. Producer.
