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 “Then it came out on screen, like a lot of the execution came out kind of serious, it was more the whole story that was so silly,” he adds, “But for when Jesus and Gloria sing goodbye after having coffee in Mexico at a café, I was very moved, I was like in tears.” We asked Wain to discuss his relationship to his co-writer Ken Marino, who was his former co-star on The State and have regularly co-written together. “We were roommates in college. It was fun,” he replies. David also says he not only met Marino, but many of the people he would regularly work with in The State and beyond, including this film. “Our group The State was done all through college,” he notes, “We did shows and we made short films and we were touring and we were basically doing our sketch comedy group and we did on MTV. We did that in college more than anything else.” “We graduated in 1991,” Wain adds, “We’re all in The Ten, we’re not all as a group together as a ten much anymore, but we all still work together. Every one of us was in the Reno 911 movie. We’re all in The Ten and we all do different projects together in different configurations.” We asked Wain if he intentionally had anybody in mind from the show to play any of the particular characters in the film. “The only person we wrote with anybody in mind is Kerri Kenney-Silver, the wife in the Arnold Schwarzenegger piece,” David says, “We heard her voice and wrote it specifically for her, everybody else we just wrote it and we thought about casting afterwards.” We also asked Wain took the opportunity to ask if there were any special extras on this DVD edition of the film. “There was like, in the Arnold one, there was a much longer piece that works really well, but in the context of the movie, it just, it slowed everything down,” he replies, “But we stripped away layers of jokes from that piece and cut it down, peripheral characters.” “Our goal was to try to make it a 90 minute movie,” David adds, “We have probably say another hour of material that would be pretty funny or at least another half-hour movie of material that we think is pretty funny, but sitting there for two hours, you get fatigue.” Finally we asked is what it is about The State that has made him continue to be so tight-knit with his cast mates during his long career. “I would rather work with those guys in The State, more than I would work with anybody else, because they are the best,” David insists, “They really are great performers and I really do feel that way. They are the funniest writers and performers that I know, so why would you go outside that if you don’t have ... |
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