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 John C. Reilly
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Only handful of comic actors can successfully make the transition from comedy to drama. Even less can successfully transist the other way around from drama to comedy, but John C. Reilly has proven to be one of the few to pull it off. He started out with notable roles in films like Boogie Nights , The Hours, Gangs Of New York, and Chicago, the last one garnering him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. However, Reilly soon proved himself adept at comedy, appearing in films like Talladega Nights and Walk Hard. Now he equally shares the silver screen with another comedic giant Will Ferrell in his latest comedy Step Brothers. It tells the story of Brennan and Dale, two ne’er do well adults who are forced to live together after their parents marry. We asked John whether he felt the film’s story rings true of his own real-life experiences with siblings. “Well, I have a bunch of brothers and Will has a brother,” Reilly says, “I guess we sort of remembered what it was like and be under the same roof together and all the crazy things that happened and kind of expanded those stories and made them more ridiculous and it became the movie.” We asked the now 43 year-old actor to share with us some of his own experiences with sibling dysfunction. “My sisters would fight a lot,” John recalls, “I’d walk into the room and they would fight and after they left, there was an outline of one of their bodies in the drywall. It was not funny at the time.” His character Dale is a 40 year-old man who has never worked a day in his life. We asked John how long it took for him to finally leave the nest. “I was 18. I couldn’t wait,” Reilly replies, “There were so many brothers and sisters, it was like living in an army barracks with kids, so I couldn’t wait to have some space that was truly my own.” Reilly also notes that Step Brothers satirizes a lot of how children are leaving the nest later and later in life as adults. “It’s a real thing, too,” he notes, “Actually, people say it’s happening more and more.” On the surface, the idea of two grown men bickering and behaving in a fairly infantile manner towards one another may seem like more than the average viewer can swallow. However, John claims the whole experience works in this film due to the sweetness at the core of the characters and the genuine sincerity they bring to them. “They mean well, so you can get away with a lot if you mean well, when you think about it,” Reilly explains, “You know, what’s funny about the innocence of the characters. I don’t know, I assume Will had some of these concerns, but as we went along, as we were making the movie, I was starting to worry. I was like, are we going to come off as these spoiled jerks because we’re awfully ... |
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