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“We have some ‘car fu” moves. We have a lot of ‘car fu’ moves in this movie.”

We asked John whether he had any difficulties in working with an incredibly powerful supporting cast, which includes Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, and Christina Ricci.

“Oh, hell, no,” he replies, “We had such a good time. We all hadn’t seen each other for a while when we got here and we were all in Susan’s room, like we were all in her trailer during the shooting of the film. She and Kick Gurry, who plays Sparky, really kept his ground. He knew what was going on everywhere, where we were going to jump. He was like Radar in M.A.S.H. So he really kept the spirits high a lot of times. He was good at keeping everybody grounded.’

“When Susan did her ‘Dance of 1000 Veils”, it was groov-a-rooney,” John continues, We all went to Susan’s trailer and hung out and she was I don’t want to say ‘earth mother’, but I will. Rain is going to be huge. Benno [Fürmann] John was also quick to point out his own unique take of the story’s highly unusual family dynamic.

““Sonny found Sparky on the street and Pops took him in and made a lawyer out of him and now he’s constantly leery of to the feeling,” he claims, “Seriously, though there would be no family and no racing team without Mom Racer. Because Pops has probably gone broke a few times by following his passion, but she lets him get away with murder.”

However, the oddest part of the family experience on set for Goodman was working with the real life chimpanzee that would play the unusual family pet Chim-Chim.

“There are days where he starts going (makes monkey grunts), so don’t look at him or make eye contact,” he recalls, “And everybody probably went and Christina Ricci just happened to be there.”

“He started rocking and we just started laughing our asses off, because he’s flailing around and he’s getting a little too Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man,” John continues, “I was crying, I was laughing so hard, and poor Christina was sitting there, trying not to make any sudden moves. She was like (in faint voice), ‘Please…help…me!’”

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