Luke Wilson on Stealing His Brother’s Girl: Wilson says that what happens in the movie hasn’t happened in his own family. “It never happened. I just never would cross that line. I don't know. That's the kind of thing that might cause a serious rift in our friendship or family. I wouldn't do that to those guys.”
Luke Wilson on What Attracted Him to “The Family Stone:” “For me, it was just one of those things where it was my character on the page - and then also the other characters. Where it seemed like it would be fun to be around those people. And I don't know that there's anything I don't like about [my character] Ben, except that maybe he does seem kind of aimless. My feeling in the movie is that a lot of that is the way that each character is driven by what's going on with [spoiler deleted’s] character, like maybe Ben's extra easy-going and extra-relaxed just to offset this underlying tragedy. And the same with [Dermot's character]. Maybe he's getting more and more uptight just because of what's going on.“
Luke Wilson is Drawn to Family Comedies: “Maybe that's what we have the most fun doing. …I like the idea of working with my brothers, which I've had the chance to do a couple of times. It's just like working with a great old friend or something. Not that we don't have our differences, but we do have very similar tastes and stuff like that, where you don't have to spend the time on a movie getting to know somebody. Starting a new movie is like going to a new school. It's like, maybe, you're kind of awkward. You don't know how everybody works and you want them to like you and you want to do a good job. And you need to feel comfortable in order to do that.”
Dermot Mulroney on Learning to Sign for “The Family Stone:” All the actors who play members of the Stone family had to learn to use sign language for the film. Mulroney says the experience was enjoyable. “I really was fascinated by it. Jack Jason is a really well-known sign language interpreter - coach or technical advisor, I guess you'd call it. He was great to work with. I ended up just trying to do exactly what he did, you know, and just imitate his hands. But the more you learn it, the more you realize how really beautiful this language is.
What [Ty Giordano, the actor who is deaf and plays Thad Stone] will tell you is that people really do start to enunciate more when they know that their lips are being read. But then of course, he says, ‘Then I can't understand a word you're saying because it doesn't look like you're actually talking.’ Even like when Meredith [played by Sarah Jessica Parker] does that thing in the movie where she talks too slow and people start to laugh at her and stuff, like, ‘What an idiot!’"
Luke Wilson’s Preparing for “Super Ex:” “I start this week. It should be funny. It's a comedy with Ivan Reitman directing and Uma Thurman. I play a guy that starts going out with who I think is just a regular girl, and she turns out to be a super hero for Manhattan. But then she's kind of tough to be in a relationship with and I break it off. Then she starts using her super powers against me.”
Wilson says the movie will be full of special effects. “There'll be a lot of stuff. I fly but I had to do this thing that's called the scan. You go up to this place in the [San Fernando] Valley. I went into this room and they were like, ‘Could you just put that on for the scan?’ and you like see a bikini. I mean this thing was like, literally, I looked like I had both genders when I put it on, it was so tight. I looked like I had everything,” joked Wilson.
Next Up for Dermot Mulroney: “I'm on a low-budget movie called ‘Griffin and Phoenix’ with Amanda Peet. We have another six days of filming in New York. It was almost started a year ago and then the financing fell apart and so forth, so, they're making it [properly] instead of hurrying it and doing it the wrong way, which was what would've happened a year ago. But we started with the script and now we're in the home stretch now.”
