Director Neil LaBute and the Death at a Funeral Cast Press Conference
Tracy Morgan: "Can I say something too? I’d like to make an announcement. Me and Luke, we’re going to rewrite The Love Boat. We’re rewriting The Love Boat. We’re going to redo The Love Boat. Columbus is going to play Gopher. You’re playing Captain Stubing."Zoe Saldana: "I would watch that. I would totally watch that. Going back to your question, the funniest thing that Jimmy did that wasn’t so funny, but it kind of was too, was that the scene where he’s supposed to be completely naked on the rooftop and I’m supposed to open the window and go, 'What are you doing? Come back inside. Blah blah blah.' He didn’t give me any warning that he had taken off his pants. So I’m talking with Luke inside and then Neil yells, 'Action.' I open the window and said, 'What?' I’m just like, 'Look at his eyes.' I just kept looking at his face."
"I could’ve been prepared to know that he was going to be naked so I felt really...it’s awkward. You’re embarrassed, he’s embarrassed and then they yell cut and I yell at him. I’m like, 'Next time if you don’t tell me I’m going to punch you. I just need to be ready.' He’s like, 'Thank you so much. You were such a gentleman. You kept looking at me in my eyes.' I wouldn’t look down."
James Marsden: "I wasn’t embarrassed."
Columbus, James and Tracy, did you really touch?
Columbus Short: "Yes, I really touched his dangle. The thing about it is it’s funny because I’m not going to say any names but Buke Bilson rhymes with who didn’t want to do it."
Luke Wilson: "It’s not that I didn’t want to do it. I had a charity event that day."
Columbus Short: "So Neil came to me so, so like cocky saying, 'Look, Columbus. You wanna, you wanna?' And I said, 'Yeah, of course.' I’d seen James for a month and a half at that point just making a fool out of himself every day, throwing himself out there. Why wouldn’t I do it? It was aggressive. It was aggressive. Like, 'Don’t touch me. Don’t touch me.' I didn’t want to touch you. I didn’t want to be touched and I’m going to be honest, guys, and I’m a completely heterosexual male, he’s packing a nice little [package]. I’m like, 'Is your mother’s name Juanita?'"
Tracy, was your hand really down there?
Tracy Morgan: "It was. I’m a method actor. It was real poop. It was everything. He ate some pork and beans and franks. Chris and Neil slipped him some Ex Lax so the old man went hard on me. Went hard, you know?"
Luke, how much concentration did it require to play straight?
Luke Wilson: "I’ve worked with funny guys before, guys like Will Ferrell, so you are conscious of trying to concentrate because you never want to start to laugh during scenes, because you will ruin a take. The problem is you get people like Tracy. They see it start in your eyes that you’re going to laugh and then they just start driving you. I would do a thing where if you were Tracy, I’d just kind of look off to the side and be waiting because I’m just waiting for my lines, not even listening to what he’d say just so I could get through the scene. Yeah, you’ve got to focus because these guys are so funny and the script was good and the stuff they’d add was really funny too. So you never want to ruin something."
