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If anything he’ll look even more Zeus-like with white hair and a beard. Yeah, he’s going to age great. Son of a bitch. But yeah, we knew each other. I did a little cameo on Neighbors, because Seth is producing a movie that I wrote. And then they did a promo on Workaholics that was sort of a cross-promotion for their movie. We became buddies and then when this role came around, I really wanted to do the job to work with him, and I think Zac was in my corner for it, which always helps. And he’s just like that too: I thought I cornered the market on cleverness and comedy, even if I didn’t have the movie-star good looks. But it turns out I’m a dummy compared to this guy. He’s a genius. I’m so glad he made the turn into comedy, because he’s exactly what comedy needed. He’s filling a role that hasn’t been filled for such a long time and he’s so natural at doing it. He plays the perfect kind of straight man, but he can also get really goofy. He’s really good in the moment, and he can commit super hard to a character in a scene. He’s a legit actor. The rest of us are playing pretend, and he takes it seriously and he’s better at it.
There’s no delicate way to ask this question: was part of your desire to do the role based at all on the fact that it shot in Hawaii? Oh yeah, 100%. It would have been a hard pass on the movie if it had shot in Northern Ireland in the rain. Everybody was super jealous of me. It was the best thing just to say. “Yeah, I’m going to Hawaii all summer to shoot this movie.” If 10-year-old Adam could have heard me say that as an adult, he’d have freaked out. What was great about it was that I think it would have been harder to shoot a movie like this is if it hadn’t been so fun at the same time. And if we were shooting something dramatic and real, and there were kids off-camera doing cannonballs into the pool, and people running past in bikinis sipping pineapple cocktails, it would have been a lot harder to do. It was just so much fun to shoot, and Hawaii really gave it a laid-back, relaxed feel on set. It was a big Fox movie, and there was a lot of money at play, and a few big stunts and pyrotechnics, but it still really felt like we had all the time in the world and we were on Island Time, as they say.
Does being on location help when you’re doing a film that’s so much about the relationships between these characters? I totally think it does. I only come from the world of truly knowing your co-stars. My show, Workaholics… we were best friends for seven years before we got our show. Maybe it’s just testament to what a shitty actor I am that I really need to know these people. Like, I can’t make pretend. It’ll fall apart if I get a big movie someday with Sean Penn and I’m going, “Sean, we’ve gotta hang out for a few weeks before we start shooting. Let’s go to Cabo, me and you.” But especially for this movie, being away in Hawaii – and we went a few weeks early for rehearsals and script work with the writers and with Jake – we really got to know each other, and that’s when I think Zac and I really bonded. You don’t have anyone else to hang out with. It’s not like Zac and I have a ton of friends in Hawaii. I already knew Anna really well from doing all the Pitch Perfect movies, so it was fun having her there. And it was nice truly getting to know Aubrey, who I only knew a little bit.
Anna seems to be playing a character that is so far from her true personality. And isn’t she great at it? I think she’s going to be the Meryl Streep of our generation. She’s the actress who you’ll look back at her career and realize she can do anything. She truly can do it all, and it’s pretty incredible. It really is a four-hander, this movie, which is really nice. We lucked out on having two of the funniest young actresses you can get in a movie. On top of them being great in the movie, they’re also really fun people to hang out with. If you’re going to be stuck in Hawaii for two and a half months, you want to be there with Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick.
Catch Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates in Cinemas from August 10th.
Catch Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates in Cinemas from August 10th.
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