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 The trio play the socially awkward teenagers so well, it's hard not to question whether or not they were just playing themselves. " I remember being not quite as socially inept," Cera says, "but I never felt like the most popular person in school. I don't even know what popular means, but I know I wasn't it." "I had some kind of nerdy confidence to me when I was in high school, kind of like the character," Mintz-Plasse says. Cera immediately concurs: "he's the most confident person I've ever met." Hill also agrees and looks at Mintz-Plasse: "Well [when] you came in and auditioned, you said you were nervous, but you were literally like 'Hey guys, what's up, let's do this.' And I was like, 'Cool.'" With Hill, being significantly older, it was a little harder to get back into the high school groove. "I had a lot of conversations with Greg [Mottola, the director] and Judd about not being who I am now, to not have any traces of myself now," he says. "So I moved back in with my parents. I stayed in the same bedroom where I lived in high school, which was torturous, as you can imagine. I would go through my old yearbooks and look through my stuff and try and get back to a place where [I was]—and it did, I started feeling the same lack of privacy." The film chronicles the boys' one night quest for the two things most important to all male teenagers: alchohol and girls. Mintz-Plasse, perhaps because high school was almost yesterday for him, is reluctant to say how much he actually drank in high school -- "I dabbled a little," he teases -- but Hill is happy to explain his experiences. "When I was like 16 or 17, we would spend the whole week discussing how we were going to obtain alcohol," he says. "I grew up in Los Angeles, and there's this place called the San Fernando Valley, where Chris grew up, and way deep in there you can find a liquor store who will sell alcohol to a one-year old. We would just drive far out and look for the seediest-looking liquor store. I looked like I was 14 when I was 16, and I would obviously not be 21, and they would sell me alcohol." He pauses, reminiscing. "Thanks, guys. Thanks for the memories." Like on Knocked Up, there was a lot of ad-libbing and improvising during the shoot. Hill helpfully explains the process: "Everyone, Greg included, just thinks that you shoot the script a couple times and you get it to where you can use that. Then after that we have a bunch of takes—the big thing ... |
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