Cigar exclusive: 'The Whitest Kids U Know' discuss 'Miss March' movie
Caity Cudworth
Issue date: 3/24/09 Section: Entertainment
The jump from three-minute TV comedy sketches to a full-length film was huge for Cregger and Moore, who wrote, directed and starred in the film.
"You're really doing two jobs at once," Cregger explained, "You're trying to make each scene as funny as possible, and you're trying to advance the overall story."
"Sketch is really the perfect medium for comedy," Cregger continued, "because you just kind of take a subject, jump in there with your best eight or nine jokes, and then get out, and you're on to the next thing. You don't have to segway, you don't have to care about character development or anything, so, when you're doing a movie, there's this whole different dimension to think about."
Moore put it pretty succinctly saying, "Doing the TV show is like trying to organize a mob. Doing a movie is like trying to run a business."
Part of "trying to run a business" was getting Playboy on board with the film. Thankfully, this proved easier than expected. Corralling an iconic corporation is never an easy task, but Moore and Cregger managed to convince the eminent enterprise to be in on the joke.
"We took the movie to Playboy, kind of tail-between-our-legs," Moore explained, "and they showed it Hefner and we kind of lucked out because, he not only liked the movie- he wanted to be in it."
"We got on the phone with him like a week before we were going to shoot," Moore continued, "and he goes 'I had one question… I noticed at one point you say a girl's busted. What does that mean?' and we were like, 'Oh it means she's like, not pretty." "And he says, 'And kids will know what that means?' We were like, 'Uh…I think so.' And he goes, 'Alright, I'm fine with it.' And that was it. That was his only note."
"So it was kind of cool that he's like an 82-year-old guy, doesn't need to do this movie, you know, he's doing fine financially, and he really just did it, kind of helping us out."
While Hef is a legend in his own right, he probably couldn't survive throwing himself down a flight of stairs four times or lighting himself on fire
"You're really doing two jobs at once," Cregger explained, "You're trying to make each scene as funny as possible, and you're trying to advance the overall story."
"Sketch is really the perfect medium for comedy," Cregger continued, "because you just kind of take a subject, jump in there with your best eight or nine jokes, and then get out, and you're on to the next thing. You don't have to segway, you don't have to care about character development or anything, so, when you're doing a movie, there's this whole different dimension to think about."
Moore put it pretty succinctly saying, "Doing the TV show is like trying to organize a mob. Doing a movie is like trying to run a business."
Part of "trying to run a business" was getting Playboy on board with the film. Thankfully, this proved easier than expected. Corralling an iconic corporation is never an easy task, but Moore and Cregger managed to convince the eminent enterprise to be in on the joke.
"We took the movie to Playboy, kind of tail-between-our-legs," Moore explained, "and they showed it Hefner and we kind of lucked out because, he not only liked the movie- he wanted to be in it."
"We got on the phone with him like a week before we were going to shoot," Moore continued, "and he goes 'I had one question… I noticed at one point you say a girl's busted. What does that mean?' and we were like, 'Oh it means she's like, not pretty." "And he says, 'And kids will know what that means?' We were like, 'Uh…I think so.' And he goes, 'Alright, I'm fine with it.' And that was it. That was his only note."
"So it was kind of cool that he's like an 82-year-old guy, doesn't need to do this movie, you know, he's doing fine financially, and he really just did it, kind of helping us out."
While Hef is a legend in his own right, he probably couldn't survive throwing himself down a flight of stairs four times or lighting himself on fire
