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 Danny McBride
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime It seems that with every Judd Apatow-produced film released in the last few years, a new star is born in the world of comedy. There’s Steve Carell with The 40 Year-Old Virgin, there’s Seth Rogen with Knocked Up, and Jonah Hill with Superbad. But now with the new comedy Pineapple Express, prepare for a new comedic face to be potentially added to the list, Danny McBride. He has become a rising talent in the world of comedy in recent years with supporting roles in films like The Heartbreak Kid and Drillbit Taylor and a starring role in the unusual indie comedy The Foot Fist Way, which he also co-wrote. Now, McBride hopes to be a major player in the success of Pineapple Express, in which he plays pot dealer Red. The 31 year-old actor first discussed with us how he first encountered Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow. “I met them on Knocked Up and two of my buddies from Foot Fist gave them a role in Superbad, so I came out to see how they were doing,” Danny recalls, “I just stood in the background and greeted a guy as he brought beer in (Laughing). That was it.” The director of Pineapple Express is David Gordon Green. Mostly known for directing independent dramas like All The Real Girls and Undertow, Gordon Green is a new face to the Hollywood scene, but an old one to Danny. “You know, actually, I went to film school with David my freshman year of college, so I had been friends with him for a while and written a bunch of stuff together,” McBride says, “Actually, when I met Judd and Seth and saw how they worked, it’s really similar to how David works with his dramatic stuff, where he just makes sure that the actor has the character down and then from there, the script’s just kind of thrown out and you just improv and kind of riff on the scene.” “It was kind of cool to see that those guys were doing that with comedy and that David was doing that with drama,” he continues, “David is just a funny guy naturally and kind of an odd bird, so I knew they’d kind of dig him. So I think that once they met him, they knew he’d be the right guy to direct Pineapple.” McBride has come up a very familiar road like many actors struggling to get their foot in the door. And like many of their stories, his road to success has been no less incredible. “It’s definitely been surreal,” he says, “It’s been cool. Right now, I’ve been kind of working with people that I really enjoy, so that’s been kind of flipping out, working with people that you always admired and respected, so that’s been crazy. But yeah, definitely, my life has been changed over the course of the last year. When we made The Foot Fist Way, we made it for $70,000. We were all living in Los Angeles, just ... |
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