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 Will Ferrell
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Only select few performers can not only truly dominate the world of comedy film, but do more than just make people laugh. Currently, in this pantheon, the top comic actors include Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn, and Jack Black. But no comic actor currently has made the kind of impact Will Ferrell has. Like many rising comics, he made his impact on NBC’s Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2002. Ever since, Ferrell has starred in a string of hit comedies from A Night At The Roxbury to Old School to Elf to Anchorman to Talladega Nights to Blades Of Glory. Unlike most comic actors who rely chiefly on crudity and a sort of ADD-ridden zaniness, the now 41 year-old comic actor has an added edge to his comic appeal, genuine heart and emotion. It’s this more genuine likeability that Will hopes will win audiences over again in his latest comedy Step Brothers, which he stars with John C. Reilly and also co-wrote with director Adam McKay. 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 the former SNL star how much, if any, inspiration for the film stemmed from personal experiences with his own siblings. “[John and I] keep getting asked, ‘What in the movie really happened to you?’ and I don’t think any of it did,” he replies, “But everyone has, if you have brothers and sisters, similar-like tales of being picked apart or having to share stuff, fights, all those things. So we kind of collectively threw all that into the script.” We also wondered just was the worst thing he had ever done to his own siblings. “I threw a hardball off my brother’s head,” Ferrell recalls, “That was the big one. One of the most devious things I did at the time was I found in my brother’s wallet and it had an Indian head nickel and I went, ‘God, I want this!’ And I knew he didn’t know because he was young enough at the time that he hadn’t known the value of it, so I took the wallet and pretend-buried it in the front yard.” “I said, ‘Hey, you want to dig around for stuff?’” he continues, “I started digging and I was like, ‘Matt, look what I found? An Indian head nickel,’ and he went, ‘Whoa! My lucky day!’ Yeah, that’s terrible. It was not funny at the time. Yeah, it was terrible at the time.” His character Brennan is a 39 year-old who still lives at home with his mother. We asked Ferrell if this particular aspect of the character was loosely based on his real life experiences. “I probably did what was common for a lot of people, move back home after college for three years,” Ferrell says, “I had a very lenient mother who said, ‘OK, you could live back at home. We’ll treat it like you’re at graduate school.’” “So I lived at home when I ... |
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