Price
of Admission got the amazing opportunity to participate alongside students from
other schools in a phone interview with KEVIN HART AND WILL FARRELL! Freak out
aside, It was an amazing opportunity to listen to two iconic comedians speak
about both the serious side of acting and racial tensions and the
not-so-serious idea of pooping in a bucket. This is the raw interview below,
but don’t forget to watch
our honest critique of their new movie Get Hard, which is out in
theaters now, and our animated version of the interview going to be uploaded to
Youtube very soon! Be sure to subscribe to Price of Admission and seriously GO
SEE THIS MOVIE
Will Farrell: Hello everyone!
Kevin Hart: Hi Claire!, Hi Eric! Hi Fancy!…..
Student: What is a common misconception about the prison
system that you learned in the making of this film that you’d
like to clear up.
Kevin Hart: Oh, that in jail they use buckets sometimes to
go number two.
Will Farrell: Common misconceptions… I don’t know if there are
any misconceptions, the misconception would be that there is any nice part of
prison.
Student: Hi Guys! Thanks for coming out today, you are
both very successful comedians; is there anything you two may have learned from
one another on working of this film.
Kevin Hart: Ya I want to say the one thing I would take
from Will is just his approach to his craft, very professional very humble. A
guy who really appreciates everything, and is grounded and I think thats why,
even to this day, he's still entertaining
Will Farrell: Ya I think Kevin and I kind of share the
same philosophy in terms of that we obviously like to have a good time were so
thankful to be doing what we’re doing professionally at the same
time we kind of stay grounded and you know work very hard.
Student: Hi guys it’s
huge honor talking to you today, my question to both of you is what was it like
working the new director Etan Cohen - obviously he has lots of writing
experience, but this is his first time directing.
Will Farrell: It was a very good experience working with Etan Cohen you know
we surrounded him with a really good team in terms of first AD and director of
photography and all the key department heads so he was allowed to just kind of
do, you know? His strong point was which how he could monitor the comedy and it
was like a real benefit when you can have a writer as strong as Etan kind of
feeding you extra banter, that sort of thing.
Kevin Hart: From my side, it’s like what Will
said we got lucky. We got a guy whose a first time director, but has been
behind the camera a lot so he soaked up some knowledge. It was a good team of
producers who knew what they were doing, and they did it well. So, I think, all
and all, everyone helped each other to make a common group as our movie
progressed. You know we got a final product because of it, so I take my hat off
to him, Good job!
Student: What made you guys on board for this movie, like
what interested you?
Will Farrell: Well
this was an idea that my friend and brain partner Adam McKay had for a long
time, we kept talking about it and so we kind of generated the idea from our
company and as we started digging into casting and figuring out who would be
great to kind of tear it up with, the only name we started with was Kevin. We
kind of called him up pitched him the idea!
Lucky for us, he was into it and he kind of helped right away in the
development process and the script and his character and that was kind of how
the whole project came together.
Student: My question is about your experience on set
during the Get Hard production, Will do you think you’re hard enough to
survive prison, and if so, what role would you play there?
Will Farrell: I
unfortunately don’t feel any more qualified or more
confident that I would survive in prison, so my best strategy would be just to
not go. I don’t know what role I would provide.
Student: I feel like a lot of your movies, specifically
Stepbrothers and Ride along use a lot of Ad-libbing, so I was wondering how
closely do you guys stick to the script when it comes to what is written on the
page and does that really matter when it comes to like hitting the comedic
punch lines.
Kevin Hart: Oh well you know its hard to find things super
funny on the page in the first place, you need a foundation we had a good foundation,
and you know from that foundation we were able to play in certain areas, but
then can elevate a scene you always want to keep what we have on the page,
because you know our writers did a great job in doing their job and their time
spent allowed us to play and move around and do something good.
Student: Hey guys! So you guys obviously make a good
comedy duo you're both really funny. We’re in the age of remakes right now, so
I was wondering if you could remake any classic comedy what would you do?
Kevin Hart: Turner and Hooch would be amazing
Will Farrell: I believe that was Tom Hanks with the dog right?
Kevin Hart: You can play hooch
Will Farrell: Oh ok
Kevin: I’m not hooch
Will Farrell: Fine
choice, Oh remake of a classic comedy: Kramer vs. Kramer
Student: Greetings Gentleman so Etan Cohen is responsible
for writing two of my favorite comedies in the last few years like Idiocracy
and Tropic thunder and when I heard that for his directorial debut he snagged
the two of you to come on board! So I was wondering what it is about him and
his style and flare that drew you to want to work with him and how was the
experience unique to your past projects
Kevin Hart: Great question:
Kevin Hart: Ya Aton is obviously a well accomplished
writer here in Hollywood with a pretty great track record, and I think he was
in town and kind of on the short list of guys who were next in line to direct a
feature. He had done a short film that I think attracted some notice and when
you talk to him about a script in terms of articulation of story you can tell
that he sounded like he was the director, and I think that’s
kind of what gave me the confidence to want to work with him. Also you know
like the 1920s 1930s? he wore those old school khaki directing pants also with a bullhorn and a
bull riding crop so that really made him appear like a director.
Student: So why is it worked to have the ability to laugh
about some of the serious racial tensions that some individuals take at heart.
Will Farrell: It’s a great way to Kind of as we explore
our differences once you kind of get to the chatter you realize how similar we
all are and keeping true to that examining this social inequality where we are
able to point out how silly these attitudes are I think that pop up from time
to time
Kevin Hart: Well I can’t say it better
then that
Student: I was wondering as you were preparing/getting
ready for this type of movie were there any prison movies or television shows
that you watched
Kevin Hart: I watched a little M.A.S.H here and there.
Will Farrell: I watched a lot of shows on the cooking channel which was
totally a waste of time and if I had to do it over again I wouldn’t
have done some of those.
Sadly,
that was the end of the interview. Pretty cool, right? Let us know in the
comments if you want to read more film interviews, and what you thought of Get
Hard out in theaters now! We are so thankful to Kevin Hart and Will Farrell for
everything they have done, and wish them all the best with this movie. So
again, GO SEE THE MOVIE!
