Vince Vaughn on Starring in an ‘R’ Rated Comedy: “It’s good to be in one, man. I tell you, it’s like I grew up, I loved these rated R comedies like ‘Animal House’ and this stuff. So for me, if you’re going to do an adult-themed movie called ‘Wedding Crashers,’ well, what are you going to do? You gotta get into it and it’s fun to get into it.
There’s a lot of pressure not to make rated R movies and if you do make rated R movies, there’s a pressure to be shocking just for shock’s sake. And we don’t want to do that either. I don’t want to try to out gross everybody. That’s not my style. I don’t want to go and just be shocking to see if I get a response. If it makes sense within the course of the film, then it’s great. So this movie wants to be R for language and also for like the dinner table scene, and the tying up scene and that kind of stuff. I think you’d just have a glass of milk if you didn’t have that stuff in the movie.”
Vince Vaughn on His Return to Comedy: “I’ve never planned stuff. Even when I broke from ‘Swingers,’ I was offered mainly comedies but I just didn’t like any of them. None of them made me laugh. It just wasn’t my taste, so I liked ‘Return to Paradise’ and I liked those movies and I wanted to do those movies. And then ‘Old School’ came along and I thought it was funny. And then I realized from the studios that they didn’t think I was good at comedy. They didn’t remember that I did comedy. There was a hard time for me to get a chance to do comedy. And now it’s like I’m getting offered a lot of comedies, but it was never kind of a planned thing.
[Next up] is a romantic comedy for me, so I like to change it up and do different stuff to stay motivated and to grow and to keep working.”
On His Upcoming Romantic Comedy: “It’s a comedy called ‘The Break Up.’ All the romantic comedy scripts that you get always have a really dumb concept for some reason. It’s like if you marry her, you get a million dollars. Or hey, I know, I’ll do a report in my magazine on the dating habits of New Yorkers. Or something insane. There’s always a concept.
I kind of like the movie ‘The Odd Couple’ so I thought why not do a movie called ‘The Break Up’ where it’s kind of a buddy film. But this is more of a traditional romantic comedy where you have a couple that bought a condo together, they split the mortgage, it takes both of their jobs to pay for it, they’re not married and they break up and they’re kind of stuck in this place together, both wanting to get out but what happens? Not boy meets girl or whatever. I want to come out like around Valentine’s Day because I always hate Valentine’s Day. Any guy hates Valentine’s Day. Even if you’re in love, you can’t win on Valentine’s Day. If you’re married, you can’t win on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs. If you’ve been dating for two months, what do you get him? Do you get him something? What does that mean? So I want to come out like, ‘This Valentine’s Day, The Break Up.’”
Vince Vaughn on His “The Break Up” Co-Star, Jennifer Aniston: “She’s great. She’s funny.
One of the things, too, I liked in this movie was a lot of times in these comedies, girls are stuck laughing at what the guy says, whether the guy’s funny or not. But Isla [Fisher’s] funny as hell in this movie and my character’s like the crazy, zany character, but by default I become the straight man when I’m in scenes with her. And she kind of becomes the comic relief and I’m the guy kind of going, ‘This guy’s normal, she’s off the hook.’ And I kind of liked that she got to be really comedic and driving and be really funny with it.
Same in ‘The Break Up.’ Jennifer gets to be really funny. She is really funny and she’s also a good actor. Favreau’s going to be in the movie playing my best friend. Vincent D’Onofrio plays my older brother. Cole Hauser plays my younger brother. John Michael Higgins - very good actors in the movie - plays her brother, Jennifer’s brother. Justin Long from ‘Dodgeball’ is in the movie. Jason Bateman is in the movie.”
Vince Vaughn on Working on “Mr and Mrs Smith” for Director Doug Liman: “Doug did ‘Swingers’ and he called me and asked me. He kind of wrote me in. He said, ‘Will you do a cameo in this movie?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ And then he said, ‘Well, will you do a couple more days?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, sure.’ Next thing I know, I’m in the trailer for the thing. I don’t even take billing on the movie because I kind of wanted to be a fun surprise for everyone.
But I really like Doug. I respect Doug as a filmmaker. Doug has a way of making a movie work. He’s not someone who’s always understood in his journey by people, but he’s four for four in my opinion. He does have an intelligence there that is not conveyable in a traditional way but [he’s] effective. I felt very confident that the movie would be worthwhile. And I like Brad [Pitt] and I like Angelina [Jolie’s] work and for me it was fun to go and get to play around. I got to write a lot of the scenes I did in that movie.”
