“Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo” finds Schneider back as the goofy male consort. Deuce is lured back into the gigolo game when his former pimp, TJ Hicks (Eddie Griffin), is implicated in the murder of Europe’s best gigolos.
Rob Schneider on Revisiting Deuce Bigalow: “It was I just got tired of trying to do PG-13 movies and squeeze in and try to manipulate the humor into this more potentially marketable form, PG13, [that’s] less fun and less freeing, you know, to see what happens. So this is like, ‘Let’s just go for it.’”
Rob Schneider on Disney and the Sequel to “Deuce Bigalow:” “Well Disney didn’t want to make it and so I took an extra year, which was great because the whole time… You know, Disney would have ruined this movie and please say that in the articles. They would have ruined this picture because they don’t know how to make, and don’t want to make, funny movies for adults. They really haven’t done it since I don’t know when - the first one with Buena Vista that they did.
I didn’t know the first one was going to rate an R but apparently I was wrong, you know, because anything with sexuality… That’s what America hasn’t gotten over, you know? Like if you shoot a woman in the breast it’s going to be PG13, okay? If you don’t show blood PG-13. If you touch a woman’s breast it’s rated R. Now, there’s something wrong with that, to me. To me there’s something terribly wrong with that.”
Rob Schneider on Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Production Company and PG-13 Films: Sandler’s company has tried to put out movies that are rated PG-13, but that rating is very restricting. “Yes, but at the same time they’re smart enough to know that if you’re going to limit what the potential humor of it is, then I think you hurt the marketability of it.
The thing about these things is you’re trying to make them as funny as you can. It is a big business, but to me the business doesn’t work unless you have the art. Sometimes they collide and get ruined. You know it’s funny because I think ‘The Hot Chick’ was really, really artistically, screamingly successful but as far as the box office - little boys didn’t want to go see it for whatever [reason],” said Schneider.
Rob Schneider on Drawing the Line When it Comes to Gross Out Comedy: “Well, the thing is I do care if I think we’re going too far. It’s not just shock to shock for shock’s sake. It’s got to be funny, but at the same time the audience has seen everything. They’ve seen so many things. They haven’t seen a girl with a penis on her face but at the same time you never really see it but you kind of see it underneath there. That’s the thing when we’re shooting it – ‘I can kind of see that.’ ‘I see it, is that right?’ I don’t know. So, you have to go for it. To me it’s a teeter/totter effect. I’ve always tried it like really sentimental sweet and then just gross out. So I’m always kind of thinking of the balance of it. And you have to go for it.
Sometimes, like the first ‘Deuce Bigelow’ - to me it was such a really sweet scene where the guy, it’s his birthday, his dad’s works in a toilet basically. He cleans. One of my favorite moments in the first film was when Deuce is about to wash his hands in the toilet [with] the bathroom attendant and, ‘Dad, let me ask you a question?’ No one in their right mind is going to guess that’s the father and that’s what he’s going to [do]. I kind of like that because the audience has no idea what’s going to happen. So, I generally try to approach it that way.”
Rob Schneider on Relating to Deuce: “Well, you know what? He’s a guy who’s trying to do the right thing. He’s not the brightest guy. What I liked about him is he’s good with some things and expert at something with fish - and cleaning fish tanks was his thing. He knows the right PH balance and stuff and so, yes, in that sense he’s not as good with people.
I was kind of not the most comfortable kid with other kids around when I was growing up, so you slightly disconnect which kind of works for this guy. But he’s a sweet guy. He wants to do the right thing in the right situation. He’s likeable. So I think you can maybe take things a little bit further than you could if he was a character who is kind of a rascal.”
Page 2: Rob Schneider on Playing a Gigolo and the Possibility of a Third "Deuce" Movie
