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Panel wrap: ‘MacGruber’
Kilmer actually fired off the first question, asking someone in the audience if he liked the movie and what parts he liked. Forte humored the audience with a story about a “courtesy pillow” that was used, much to his dismay, during intimate scenes with Wiig. He joked that he didn’t want the pillow between them, but that Wiig had insisted. The adorable and quite blonde Wiig, did not do too much talking, but had a great line when she discussed the sweat of sex scenes as “body drool.”
Taccone, who said the film, which was produced in short time and on a budget of only $10 million said that he got inspiration for the film from the 80s vibe of the “Lethal Weapons” movies and “Die Hard.” All of the interiors were smoky, he said, while all these exteriors were soaking wet. He also discussed the nascent stages of what became Loney Island and confessed that in their early days in Hollywood, he, Schaffer and partner Andy Samberg lived off of the food he stole from the set of “Spin City,” on which he worked as a writers’ assistant.
Kilmer did digress from the jokes a bit with a nice nod to the creative process behind the movie and “SNL,” which he described as inspired and painstaking work, although he did joke that he thought “the entire script is kind of designed to ruin (his) career.”
Although he did not say too much at the panel, and I continue to wonder if that is actually Ryan Phillippe’s real voice, Taccone said that the Ken-doll-handsome actor was one of the keys to the film because his straight character is “us watching the movie.” Taccone also gave great credit to Kilmer’s perspicacity regarding comedy.
Phillippe dodged a question from the audience about his involvement in a Captain America movie, but he did coyly say that he was “into it” and we’d just have to see what happens.
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