Dane Cook, Kate Hudson and Jason Biggs on "My Best Friend"s Girl"
Three actors who know their way around romantic comedies - Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, and the American Pie guy Jason Biggs - team up for My Best Friend's Girl, a romcom directed by Howard Deutch, the man behind Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful and The Whole 10 Yards. My Best Friend's Girl features Hudson as Alexis, the girl of Dustin's (Biggs) dreams. But when Alexis decides things are moving too fast, Dustin's forced to ask his best friend Tank (Cook), a guy who knows how to handle ladies on the rebound, to take Alexis on the worst date of her life so that she'll see how good she had it with him.
But, of course, things don't work out how Dustin planned...
The cast joined director Deutch and writer Jordan Cahan for a press conference in LA to talk about the comedy movie. And just a brief disclaimer... My Best Friend's Girl is an R-rated comedy and the press conference is also a little on the R-rated side.
My Best Friend's Girl Press Conference
Dane, I love how Tank is trying to use is power for good and not evil. Do you think you will see copycat Tankers after this movie comes out?
Dane Cook: "I’m actually teaching a class at The Learning Annex of how to be like Tank Turner. I think it's great that you can play a character that has a bit of silliness and tone and uses his dirty deeds for good at the end. The fact that he gets to use his dastardly deeds for good was a lot of fun to play that."
Have you ever had any dates from hell and did you ever go to prom?
Kate Hudson: "Yes! I went to lots of proms. No, I didn't. I have had a couple pretty bad dates. One date I just left before we got any food or ordered food because the guy was so deeply boring.
I just thought I'd just save all of us from this and leave."
Jason Biggs: "I want to meet that guy. Don't you? Poor guy."
Kate Hudson: "I think he was in banking. I'm not kidding. It was years ago. And then prom, I went to prom. When I was in high school, we'd all go together so nobody really had real dates, so a bunch of us would go in a group and that was fun. I liked our prom big time. A big orgy. Oh yeah."
Dane Cook: "I just stayed home and masturbated."
You guys filmed in Boston. Can you tell us how that was and Kate, you went the Patriot games?
Kate Hudson: "You mean the Patriots and the Red Sox. Loved it."
Dane Cook: "Yeah. I mean it's my home town. I grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts and started my comedy career in Boston. So in between scenes it was like, 'Cut,' then there were teachers and people waiting to say hello and catch up. It was really important to come home to Boston and share something I love to do with a great community of people."
Kate Hudson: "I fell in love with it. I actually got to spend most of my year there because I did another film in Boston. Got to know the Kraft family through Dane and they were such wonderful people. They brought me and invited me to some Patriots games. I was really fun to be [on the] East Coast at that time, because it was late summer into fall. It was really, really nice. Great food - good yummy pizzeria routine."
Did you know each other before or did you just meet for the first time?
Dane Cook: "In the past life. I was a pharaoh and she was one of my servants, or the other way around. It's a blurry image."
Were you able to improvise, especially being a stand-up comedian?
Dane Cook: "I am around funny people all my whole life. This is one of the funniest people that I’ve met. Kate is…to say she has the funny bone, she has the Terminator exoskeleton version of that. She’s so good. …Tremendously gifted comedic person and going toe-to-toe and being able to play what's on the page, which was so solid, but when we had time to go off the chain a little bit, we were just able to lob it up for one another and knock them out of the park."
What was your first meeting like?
Dane Cook: "It was at your house." [pointing to Kate]
Kate Hudson: "It was great. It was easy."
Howard Deutch: "It was at Kate's house and there were a lot of people there. It was kind of hectic and there wasn't help there so Kate was busy making a cake - baking a cake while auditioning, reading with other actors…"
Kate Hudson: [Laughing] "I did. I baked a blueberry turnover cake. It's really good. It’s a great recipe."
Dane Cook: "You know when you meet somebody and you’re already almost trying to create scenes together? Remember we talked about the scene in the strip club and you’re drunk and I’m trying to act all inappropriate? Almost immediately we're talking about ideas and playing it in a way. I knew we had an affinity for each other right away. I'm very fond of this lady. She's such a darling."
Jason, did you actually shave your eyebrows? How did that whole scene happen?
Jason Biggs: "The scene happened in the warped mind of the gentleman down here." [pointing to writer Jordan Cahan]
Jordan Cahan: "I'm sorry."
Jason Biggs: "I was down to do it for a long time. I'll do anything for a laugh and…"
Kate Hudson: "It was…Wasn’t it a matter of..."
Jason Biggs: "This is my question part of it. [Laughing] So, anyways, we were talking about my eyebrows. So, I was down to do. Then a few weeks leading up to it I did a little research online and there are blogs dedicated to people who accidentally or intentionally shaved an eyebrow or some other part of their body and there were horror stories. It didn't grow back at all. It grew back somewhere else. It grew back all screwed up. It was all f--ked up so I said, 'Hell no!' So Howie and the other creative minds along with some great makeup artists took care of the prosthetics."
Kate Hudson: "I think my favorite was when you come to the door and the eyebrow is dripping down."
Jason Biggs: "A la Marx Brothers."
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