Will Ferrell Interview for The Other Guys - Celebrity Interviews

Will Ferrell is this era’s Hollywood comedy king. With a string of hits under his belt from A Night At The Roxbury to Old School to Elf to Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy to Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby to Step Brothers. While he’s dodged his fair share of bullets and bombs like 2008’s Land Of The Lost, the 43 year-old comic is poised to get right back on the horse as Hollywood’s reigning comedy king as Detective Allen Gamble in the comedy The Other Guys.

The film deals with a more humorous construction of the classic buddy cop subgenre. It was only fitting to begin with whether or not Ferrell ever had any desire to actually be one.

“No, I can’t say,” Will replies, “I mean I did as a kid. I would walk around with a pair of nun chucks on my side, which is not really law enforcement related. They were rolling pins. They were nunchucks made out of rolling pins. I guess like a martial arts thing. I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time. I guess I was like a vigilante, justice. Yeah, like a guardian angel type thing. I was six years old. Six to nine. Those three years.”

Will had this to say regarding the notion of teamwork.

“I feel like it’s more important to be really cutthroat on a set and not look out for each other,” Ferrell jokes, “That provides a certain tension. It makes for a horrible work environment, but boy does it pop on screen. In the end result, it works right? There’s no insurance.”

Ferrell was asked what was his personal favorite buddy cop films was.

“Turner & Hooch,” Will names, “Serpico is good.”

Ferrell says that compared to most comedies, he says the film, because of its buddy cop theme has more of a substance to it.

“This probably is the most plot-driven movie I’ve done, I would say,” Will says.

Directing and co-writing the film is Adam McKay, who founded the popular comedy website Funny Or Die with Will. Will was asked how Funny Or Die helps fuel their comedic creative juices to do feature films.

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Eva Mendes Interview for The Other Guys - Celebrity Interviews

Eva Mendes has done many a gritty cop drama from Exit Wounds to Training Day to We Own The Night to Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. She’s also done many comedies including Stuck On You, Hitch, and The Women.

Now the 36 year-old actress gets the chance to parlay the two styles of film together in her latest role as Sheila Ramos Gamble in the buddy cop comedy The Other Guys. In the film, Mendes’s character is the wife of Will Ferrell’s character, Allen, a forensic accountant who becomes a detective and teams up with a trigger-happy partner, played by Mark Wahlberg.

Eva was asked to comment on a remark Ferrell had made about being cutthroat with everyone on set in order to work as a team.

“I had the least lines, yeah,” Mendes claims, “I lost on that one.”

She was also asked whether or not Ferrell’s remarks were true that she, him, and the rest of the cast had a “party trailer” in-between filming.

“We burned it down,” Eva jokes.

Much of Mendes’s scenes in the film with Ferrell deal with how the people around them view her looks. When asked about how she feels about how the way men react to her in real life, she was surprisingly rather taken aback.

“Wow, I don’t know,” Eva replies, “I wish that people would know that, I don’t know, Help me. That doesn’t really happen. Oh, god. I’m going to sound like an asshole for saying this. But the truth is that the fame walks in the door before you do, if you guys know what I mean by that.”

“Please help me out,” she adds, “So you no longer know how men really react to you, they just react to ‘Dude, there’s that famous girl from Training Day in the other room”, you know? Kind of. No? But its like I just don’t feel like I get that genuine response anymore.”

As Eva continued, she brought up an incident that occurred with her former co-star Will Smith while they were promoting the 2005 romantic comedy hit Hitch together.

“I’ll tell you a little story actually,” Mendes recalls, “Went around the world promoting the film. And he calls me Reva. So one day we were in Rio, we were doing press..... Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews

Mark Wahlberg Interview for The Other Guys - Celebrity Interviews

When he’s not known for making the ladies swoon, Hollywood’s real-life Vincent Chase, Mark Wahlberg, has developed a reputation for kicking some serious butt in films like The Big Hit, The Corruptor, Three Kings, The Italian Job, The Departed, The Departed, Shooter, We Own The Night, and Max Payne.

Now the 39 year-old hopes to take his action persona into the realm of comedy with the buddy cop film The Other Guys. Wahlberg, being a veteran of cop films, says getting him to do the film was a slam dunk.

“I didn’t even want to read the script,” Mark recalls, “I didn’t care. They said would you be interested in doing a movie and I said yeah. They said would you like to hear the idea first, and I said if you want to tell me… If not we could just order dinner and drink more wine. Literally I’ve always wanted to do a comedy and get an opportunity to work with these guys. So it was just a dream come true.”

“I was going to have a lot of fun making this movie,” he continues, “I certainly felt very comfortable when it came to anything cop-ish or action. But with all the other stuff, I just basically wanted to follow their lead. I basically just did whatever they told me. I learned the lines. I’d show up. And I’d say the lines and then if they wanted me to try anything else, I’d certainly be willing to try anything. I’m killing it right now.”

In the film, Wahlberg plays trigger-happy detective Terry Holtz, who is assigned to teaming up a forensic accountant, played by co-star Will Ferrell, after he accidentally shoots New York Yankee captain Derek Jeter, who plays himself in a cameo. He was asked whether he had any input in having his character shoot the legendary Yankee slugger.

“No, but I was certainly thrilled,” Mark replies, “I felt bad though because he’s such a nice guy.”

Mark shared with us his most favorite scene in the film, a scene where Detective Holtz is beating up a character played by co-star Rob Riggle.

“I choked the shit out of that big motherfucker,” Wahlberg says of it, “I choked the shit out of Will, too.”

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Christina Applegate Interview for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Celebrity Interviews

Christina Applegate is best known for her work in TV, as airhead Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married…With Children, as well as Samantha Newly on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? But Applegate has also done many films, including comedies like Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, The Big Hit, The Sweetest Thing, and Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy.

Now the 38 year-old actress continues her voice work in the family film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. Christina gave us the 411 on her character.

“I play Catherine, who is the agent from Meows,” she describes, “She’s an incredibly sophisticated, smart agent – spy-like, if you will – and she begrudgingly has to be teamed up with these dogs in order for her to stop Kitty Galore, who is about to destroy her universe as well. I love her. I think she’s a really wonderful, rich cat.”

Applegate was also asked about whether she was a cat or dog person.

“I am a both-person,” Christina describes, “I love all the animals. All shapes, colors, sizes, and species.”

Christina described the process of doing voice work for the film, which she says was quickly revealed to her is not the easy payday it appears to be on the surface.

“It took me a minute to figure out exactly what was going on,” Applegate recalls, “My first session with them, I had worked on Samantha Who? until 9:00 in the morning and then I had to be there at 11:00, so I wasn’t in the best possible condition to start doing this kind of voice. But director Brad [Peyton] kept saying, “More energy, more energy.” I think, with a lot of other animated movies, they can animate thought in the eyes of the character and they can animate physicality and all of these things, but for this, these are real dogs and cats, with our characters, at least, there was very little that was enhanced.”

“So it really was a cat sitting there,” she adds, “So what we really had to do is convey so much through the voice, and I think that’s when I finally understood when he said, “More energy.” It wasn’t ‘Louder, bigger’, it needed to be so full because that cat is not going to swerv....

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Bette Midler Interview for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Bette Midler is a legendary triple threat, a singer, actor, and comedian. She started out in theater, before her larger-than-life stage presence expanded into pop stardom in the 1970’s. By the 1980’s and 1990’s, it expanded into films like The Rose, Beaches, Stella, Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives.

Now at age 64, Midler translates her legendary talents to a whole new medium, voice work, with the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. The still-Divine Miss M gave us the 411 on her character.

“I’m a cat,” Bette describes of it, “I play Kitty Galore. Kitty Galore is an Egyptian sphinx cat. She’s hairless except for a little hair on her tail. She’s very cranky because she’s been rejected by her beloved human family and she’s determined to rule the world.”

“I came in for a number of sessions and it was really curious because, when I first started, it was just a sketch,” she continues, “As time went on, the backgrounds of the other characters got more and more filled in. That was very exciting to watch. I’ve never experienced that before.”

Bette was also asked about whether she was a cat or dog person.

“In real life, my pet passed,” Midler replies, “I’m a non-pet person at this point.

Midler described the process of doing voice work for the film.

“ It’s not just isolating,” she reveals, “it’s a little bit lonely because it’s just you in a dark room with a sketch of a character or sometimes a filled-in scene, but still you don’t work with the other actors,” It’s like one long looping session. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, ADR for days.’ The real thrill, I think, comes from seeing the finished product. The fact that [director] Brad [Peyton] could keep all these balls in the air and make all these that would form into one movie, it was absolutely staggering to me. I couldn’t imagine how you did it, because he was working with live actors, he was working with animals.”

“There’s nothing harder than working with animals,” Bette adds, “Those animals really looked like they knew what they were doing, but honestly, they’re animals. ‘Stay, stay, stay.’ I worked with animals before and it’s like, ‘Oh God.’ So the.....

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America Ferrera Interview for The Dry Land

After making her breakthrough role in the HBO film Real Men Have Curves, America Ferrera shot to TV glory with her role as geeky main character Betty Suarez on the ABC TV series Ugly Betty, while also achieving success in film with roles in The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants movies, Lords Of Dogtown, and How To Train Your Dragon.

With Ugly Betty having now ended this past season, the 26 year-old plays what is inarguably her most dramatic role yet as Sarah, the wife of a traumatized Iraq War veteran, in the drama The Dry Land. Ferrera was asked whether Sarah is indeed the most emotionally-challenging role by far in her career.

“I don’t think I can really compare it to anything else that I’ve done,” America says, “I feel like every role that I take on, I take on because it’s a challenge to me. I would say that this is probably the most grown-up role that I’ve gotten to play, which is exciting for me, and clearly the most presently important and serious role that I’ve gotten to play that has such an immediate resonance to what’s happening in our society right now. But it was challenging and it had its challenges, but in some ways, I feel like I could relate to Sarah more than to some other characters that I’ve played.”

“I think that because I’m not a woman who has a husband at war, I really did connect to this character on a human level that, as a woman, I could understand what her journey was outside of the military complex,” she adds, “It’s a woman who had a partner in life, a best friend, a husband, someone to share her life with, who then is inaccessible behind his eyes. How do you get him back? How do you find that person that was supposed to be there forever? And that felt like an easier thing to relate to than how would I feel if my husband went to war. I don’t think I could go there. I went to the easier place to go to, which is how somebody I cared about so much got lost behind their eyes and all I wanted to do was just see them back behin....

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Wilmer Valderrama Interview for The Dry Land

Wilmer Valderrama got his start as lovably naive foreign exchange student Fez on the hit Fox sitcom That 70’s Show. The success of the long-running show parlayed into a hosting gig on the MTV show Yo Momma, as well as a variety of film roles including Party Monster, Fast Food Nation, Unaccompanied Minors, El Muerto, Columbus Day, and The Days Of Wrath.

The 30 year-old’s latest role is as Iraq War veteran Raymond Gonzales in the drama The Dry Land. Valderrama says he already was ahead of the game in terms of research for his character due to his travels to visit soldiers stationed in Iraq & Afghanistan with the United Service Organizations.

“I did a lot of research and I know a lot about that because of my work with the USO,” he says, “And I’ve been to a lot of the hospitals and I’ve talked to a lot of soldiers. I have a lot of friends who are suffering like that, too, so when this script came and I read it, I was like, this is it. This is exactly what he’s like and it’s a really weird partition of what it all means.”

“So for me, it was important that we stay true to it,” Wilmer continues, “And that he was as authentic as possible and that we play the humans the right human emotions behind each one of our characters, so the research was really eye-opening for us because one thing, you’re saying I’m going to play a character with a problem and one thing, as an actor and as a human being, really understanding the message behind your role and the movie. I think it’s mostly about just understanding that you have a responsibility when talking about something like this. And that you should really do your best to assimilate and hopefully that it’s another step in the right direction towards the right conversation.”

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