Schaffer cast a group of relatively unknown actors - Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts and Travis Wester - to star as the best friends who get into misadventures traveling together throughout Europe. Friends onscreen, the three guys sat down together to talk about their experience making "Eurotrip."
What was the best part of your “Eurotrip?”
JACOB PITTS: Me and Travis went and saw the castle.
TRAVIS WESTER: Oh yeah, the Prague castle.
JACOB PITTS: It's not really one central castle.
TRAVIS WESTER: More of a compound.
JACOB PITTS: It's like a series of, I don't know the architectural style or period, but 14th Century buildings and in the middle of them [there are] gardens and all these groves around it. We were actually just walking down the street and there was this huge wall [with a] tiny little door. [I’m] like, “Oh, let's go over there. Let's see what's over there.” We go in this little door and it's like “Alice in Wonderland” looking through this huge majestic garden.
TRAVIS WESTER: Prague was like that. You turn one corner, you turn another corner, and suddenly you're in this weird extra-dimensional space where there's like all these statues and wonderful topiaries.
Did you try Absinthe?
JACOB PITTS: No, we wussed out.
SCOTT MECHLOWICZ: I did not wuss out. I tried it. I managed to get a little in. [It was] nothing special. Nothing as bad as what happens in the film. It's more just like having bad tequila.
JACOB PITTS: Well, what they sell now basically gets you drunk in one shot or something, but what I understand is the famed Absinthe has like worm turd in it.
SCOTT MECHLOWICZ: Yeah, all I managed to do was light my table on fire when I was lighting the drink. That's the only good that came out of my experience with Absinthe.
What will this film do for American-European relations?
JACOP PITTS: Destroy them.
TRAVIS WESTER: No, a lot of people are talking about like the stereotypes and stuff like that, but I mean, honestly, I don't know how many stereotypes there really are in the movie. I think the writers kind of invented new ones. I mean, you've got the English soccer hooligans, I guess that's kind of a stereotype. But I never really thought of the French as being these silver painted mime robot guys. That was a new one to me.
JACOB PITTS: There are more silver painted mimes in New York than I saw in Prague.
TRAVIS WESTER: What are we going to do to European American relations? Probably not great things.
Will they get a kick out of the movie?
TRAVIS WESTER: I don't know. That's going to be interesting to see how this movie plays in Europe.
JACOB PITTS: Kind of in an ironic sense in how us leftist Americans get a kick out of the irony in watching “Rambo” movies.
How has Europe changed since the Griswolds?
JACOB PITTS: I cop to never seeing that movie.
SCOTT MECHLOWICH: It has been a while.
TRAVIS WESTER: Well, there's the Euro. Besides the establishment of the European Commonwealth?
JACOB PITTS: There's no longer a Checkoslavakia.
TRAVIS WESTER: Yeah, it's the Czech republic. Yeah, the establishment of a universal currency and the fall of the Warsaw Pact.
JACOB PITTS: God, you're asking all these heady questions. Just like tell us about the tits.
Okay, talk about the tits.
TRAVIS WESTER: Well, there's tits in the movie. Lots of them.
Were they real?
TRAVIS WESTER: For the most part. I mean, there were a few glaring exceptions, like in the orange juice ad. I'm sorry homegirl, if you're reading this interview, but you need to check it. You need to check your armpits [for the scar]. But for the most part, Czech ladies, they didn't really augment.
There’s a surprising cameo from Matt Damon in “Eurotrip.” What was he like to work with?
SCOTT MECHLOWICZ: Indeed, shaved head, tattoos, piercing, a madman.
TRAVIS WESTER: Just rocking out, Matt Damon.
And how was he between takes?
SCOTT MECHLOWICZ: A sweetheart. He was like a fireball up there, just going crazy. He learned the song, I think, that day and he pulled it off so well. Off the set he was just the nicest guy.
JACOB PITTS: He set all of our hearts aflutter.
TRAVIS WESTER: Especially Jacob's.
SCOTT MECHLOWICZ: Jacob got rosy cheeked.
PAGE 2: The Guys on Getting Wild in Europe and the Lengths They'll Go to for Romance
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