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How much did you study 80s and 90s teen movies?
Chyler: I watched "She's All That" at least 15 times.

What did you take from it?
Chyler: I hate the movie. Never want to see it again (laughing). After the second time you see it, you get it. It was a cute movie. It really was, for the time.

Ron: For me, I didn't have to study. I'm making fun of myself so I was good to go. At the same time, I felt like I had to study a lot of the 80s films. Some friends of mine got together, had a couple pints, and watched the movies.

Chyler: Joel let it be known that he had a library of all the films that we were spoofing and if you wanted to take one of the movies home, or if you wanted to see a certain clip or a part of the film, he had it available for all of us to do that. There's at least 19 movies in this movie. A lot of the movie was based on '80s films [like] "Sixteen Candles," "Pretty in Pink," "Breakfast Club" and we definitely freshed up on them. It's not like we really had to study all of the movies, because it's really based on whatever your character was based on.

Do you need to study the original sources to do a spoof?
Chyler: I think it's definitely beneficial. The whole point of me watching "She's All That" 15 times was to get down the little things, the mannerisms, the characteristics and the facial expressions. Chris Evans had to do the same thing for his character because Freddie Prinze, Jr. is a very big eyebrow actor and he does the thing, the emphasis on the butt forehead crack thing that happens, and he had it down.

Did you study classic spoofs like "Airplane" and "Naked Gun?"
Chyler: Definitely. I love "Airplane," absolutely love that movie, and Joel wanted the movie to have an "Airplane"-esque feeling to it in the sense of some characters having that deadpan joking. He wanted that feeling to it, so we definitely watched those movies. Not necessarily "Naked Gun," but "Airplane" - just to get that sense of humor.

Ron: I have them. You name any stupid movie, and I have it. If it's on DVD or VHS, I own it, I've got it. I worship stupid movies.

Did you watch "Scary Movie?"
Chyler: No, I didn't actually watch it. To be quite honest, I didn't want to watch it. I didn't really have any desire to see the movie and then I read our script and I was so happy that they decided to do a movie that was going to spoof all the teen movies. I actually watched a couple scenes of "Scary Movie" the other night for the first time and our movie is way better. It is so much more clever and the writing is so much better. It's funnier. It's not just slap after slap after slap.

Ron: We spoof more movies in ours. We've got 19 films, they've got six.

Did you have any inner conflicts spoofing yourself?
Ron: No, I did not. When my agent got the breakdown and it said Reggie Ray, she said, "Lester, you're going to find this as a huge compliment." I said, "What's that?" She said, "Reggie Ray. Think Ron Lester, Billy Bob, 'Varsity Blues.'" I said, "Hell no. Ain't nobody making fun of me, but me." I went to Joel's office and I yanked all the pictures off the wall of all the people they thought were going to play me. I said, "When I do this movie, I want this, this and this." Of course, I didn't get anything I wanted, but I got to do the movie (laughing).

What is coming up next?
Chyler: I have a show that I'm doing for Fox called "That 80s Show." If you're familiar with "That 70s Show," they are doing the next decade. I play a punk rock character who has a mohawk and a nose ring. My name is Tuesday. We are shooting 12 episodes that are definitely picked up, but I have a feeling that it's going to last for awhile. The first episode is January 23rd.