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Was Chris’ character’s name always McLovin?

Seth Rogen: “Yeah, it was always McLovin - for no real reason.”

Where’d the name come from?

Seth Rogen: “That’s one of the things that actually remains from the original script.”

Jonah Hill: “It was a funny name you guys thought of?”

Seth Rogen: “We just thought it was the dumbest f**kin’ thing a guy could put on his fake i.d. We just felt like just the word McLovin was pretty stupid.

We always thought that was like way too broad, actually. Me and Evan [Goldberg] had a lot of talks about it. We really thought people would just say, ‘That’s bulls**t.’”

Jonah Hill: “What’s crazy I notice in the screenings is like at the end, when like they’re like, ‘What’s your real name?’ He’s like, ‘Fogell,’ and then Bill [Hader’s] like, ‘F**k that, we’re calling you McLovin,’ the crowd goes like crazy! They freak out, like ‘McLovin!’ And then after the screenings they see Chris and they’re like, ‘McLovin!’ There’s so much joy. They love McLovin.”

Seth Rogen: “I literally, I would have never thought that would be the thing people really retain.”

Jonah Hill: “If you see the trailer, they have like a compilation of people saying McLovin.”

Seth Rogen: “I would have never thought it.”

So if in 10 years people are still coming up to you and doing the McLovin thing are you going to be cool with that?

Christopher Mintz-Plasse: “I hope so. I mean I don’t know what’s it’s going to be like in 10 years, but I mean like I think I’ll always take it as a compliment.

That means they liked the movie and they liked the character.”

Seth Rogen: “You’re a timeless character.”

I really felt like this was this generation’s twisted take on a John Hughes type of teen comedy. Is that a bad take to have on it?

Seth Rogen: “No, we really had no reference point when we were writing it. When we started we were 13, we had not seen any movies that were not involved in robots.”

Jonah Hill: You didn’t plan on it being a hybrid of Dazed and Confused?”

Seth Rogen: “Really, honestly we had not seen Dazed and Confused. I don’t think I had seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High at that point.”

Jonah Hill: “I thought it was funny that you guys had never seen The Last Detail because to me it always seemed like it was such a comparison.”

Seth Rogen: “I remember when we watched it for the first time, we were like, ‘Yeah, it’s definitely kind of what we’re going for.’”

Jonah Hill: “But without seeing it.”

Seth Rogen: “We just wanted to make it real to us and funny, obviously. We never were taken out by two stupid cops. We had some crazy adventure but we just wanted to make it something that we would watch and think like, ‘Yeah, that’s kind of like what our high school experience was like.’ That was really it.”

But the cop thing was so random. How did you come up with it?

Seth Rogen: “When we wrote the movie, now when we write we outline thoroughly, really think everything through. We did not do that at all when we wrote this movie. Literally, we just wrote it. We didn’t know what was going to happen when we were writing it, so we thought of this idea that the liquor store gets robbed and the cops have to show up and that you guys think he’s caught. And then from there we just literally didn’t know what to do. We were like, ‘What happens now with this Fogell character? We were like, ‘What if these cops take him out?’ It was not well thought out. It’s like that because we did not know what we were doing.”

But that’s not your system from now on.

Seth Rogen: “No, I don’t know if it’s good or not, but we really plan things out now. It makes it easier to write. I don’t know if it makes the product any better, but I feel a lot more comfortable knowing what’s going to happen!”

Okay, and the idea that men like to draw penises…

Seth Rogen: “That came from nowhere. I don’t know what it is. I wrote that.”

Jonah Hill: “You know what’s the funniest thing is that people say to me, even like my dad said that to me after he saw it? ‘Why are you always drawing dicks?’”

Seth Rogen: “I draw them sometimes.”

Jonah Hill: “But it’s different, when you draw something. Guys draw dicks so much.”

Seth Rogen: “David Krumholz has the funniest story ever. It’s a trick his grandma used to play. She’d go to someone and she’d be like, ‘I’m gonna draw your picture.’”

Jonah Hill: “And she’s an old lady.”

Seth Rogen: “She’d say, ‘Sit still,’ and she’d take like a half an hour. ‘Don’t move.’ Every time you’d move, ‘Don’t move.’ And then she’d turn it around, it’s a picture of a dick.”

Michael Cera: “It’s the funniest thing ever!”

Seth Rogen: “That’s the funniest thing I ever heard. But I think it was more than anything just a tool to show a bunch of drawings of dicks on the screen.”

Jonah Hill: “Evan’s brother David drew them and they were hilarious. I think as much credit goes to him for how he executed. It’s so funny that he’s a lawyer.”

Seth Rogen: “I remember we gave him a list of every type of dick you could imagine.”

Jonah Hill: “I remember sending my ideas.”

Seth Rogen: “There are literally ten times more than there are in the movie. There are over a thousand. They’re releasing a book of them, I think. There’s literally like over a thousand.”

Is it true director Greg Mottola just let the camera run?

Jonah Hill: “We shot high def which was the greatest thing ever. I literally thought it was the greatest thing. You could just shoot all day. It was so awesome. Like any idea, anything you wanted to try, it wasn’t a waste of money or like time to shoot it. Even if it was crazy like so much stuff in the movie… And I think Greg took a lot of stuff that were like in-between takes and stuff or like reactions or things of us hanging out because they could just keep shooting what they could use in the movie. The tapes last for almost an hour.”

Continued on Page 3:On Greg Mottola and The Green Hornet