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00:00 (orchestral music)
00:02 - It's a Christian film for families.
00:07 - Yes.
00:08 Bring your youngest child.
00:11 - It's the parent trap of everyone
00:12 we're a gross, awful monster.
00:14 - Yeah, and a musical.
00:15 - And a musical.
00:16 - In the original stage show of this film,
00:20 that it was based off of,
00:22 God is mentioned at the end,
00:23 but he was not a character.
00:24 And I think in the way that they
00:27 so deftly expanded the film,
00:30 they decided to include him as a narrator.
00:32 - Well, and we licensed God's story,
00:33 so we could finally fold it in.
00:35 - That's right.
00:36 Took a long time.
00:37 - Took a long time.
00:37 - And then--
00:38 - Good lawyers, God.
00:39 - Good lawyers, God.
00:40 And I'd seen the show so many times,
00:42 and was very good friends with Josh and Aaron,
00:45 and then they were very,
00:46 very generous to ask me to be involved.
00:48 - Well, and she gives the divine.
00:49 (laughing)
00:50 She gives it to you every fall.
00:51 Celestial being.
00:52 Doubtless.
00:53 - Doubtless.
00:54 - Doubtless celestial being.
00:56 I mean, truly, when we were doing it
00:57 in our 20s in a basement,
00:59 we just realized, we were like,
01:00 the parent trap sort of works,
01:01 'cause we could be the children and the parents,
01:03 'cause they each sort of meet the one.
01:04 We were like, it just--
01:05 - Right, it just was easy to do as two people.
01:07 - Easy to do as two.
01:08 - But so, just the stage show was so quick and fast,
01:12 so they find out they're twins in the first song.
01:14 We take longer.
01:16 You know, we get to live in the beats more,
01:17 and sort of explore the characters a little bit more.
01:20 - And then add--
01:21 - And cast Tony winners.
01:22 - And cast Tony winners.
01:23 Yeah, and Emmy winners.
01:25 And Grammy winners, quite frankly.
01:26 - Which we wanted to do at UCB,
01:27 but Tony winners won't work for negative money,
01:30 it turns out, and so.
01:32 - Hmm, interesting.
01:34 - I don't know, they must have been drunk.
01:37 (laughing)
01:39 I think they blacked out.
01:39 - They were in a sassy mood.
01:41 Yeah, we sent them the script.
01:43 We sent them a video of the original stage show,
01:45 and they--
01:47 - They responded to the material.
01:48 - They responded to the material.
01:50 - Yeah.
01:50 (laughing)
01:51 - And we were thrilled.
01:52 - Yeah.
01:53 - We were thrilled.
01:54 We were like, well, in a perfect world,
01:55 it would just be, you know, Nathan Lane,
01:56 and Megan Mullally, and Megan Thee Stallion,
01:58 and Earl "Prin" Bowen, and then, you know,
02:00 it all came true.
02:01 So it really was fabulous.
02:02 - But yeah, they are legends, they're so funny,
02:05 they're pros, it was just, it was a pleasure.
02:09 It was a blast.
02:10 - And then even peripheral people from their worlds
02:12 and lives, with kind of like Nick Offerman being on set,
02:14 it was just like, oh my gosh,
02:15 we get to rub shoulders with these legends.
02:18 - And they with us, you know,
02:19 I think they regard us as peers, as equally famous.
02:23 - Similar IMDbs, almost to a T.
02:25 (laughing)
02:27 You know, you scroll and scroll and scroll on mine,
02:29 and you don't hit the bottom, sort of like them.
02:30 - Mine known for is Will and Grace.
02:33 - Yeah, of course, yes.
02:35 - And mine is Angels in America, Perestroika.
02:38 - Yes, yes.
02:40 And mine is Hot Girl Shit.
02:41 - Yes.
02:42 - That's what I'm known for, doing Hot Girl Shit.
02:44 So, we're very similar to these people.
02:47 Couple of them exist almost the same,
02:49 and some got like broken apart and rebuilt,
02:51 and then like several new ones,
02:53 which Carl St. Lucie, who's our fabulous composer,
02:55 they wrote all these songs,
02:57 and Mary Stavris, the executive music producer,
02:59 like helped make them incredible.
03:01 So yeah, there's like some that existed in the stage show,
03:04 but are, you know, got a glam up, frankly,
03:06 and then some that were brand new for the film.
03:09 - Song?
03:09 - Favorite song that I wrote, Bitch.
03:11 (laughing)
03:12 - I mean, the Megan Thee Stallion song is--
03:15 - It's crazy that she's doing it.
03:17 - It's quite fun.
03:18 - Yes.
03:19 - I do like, I like the duet that Nathan and Megan
03:23 sing Lonely.
03:24 - Yeah.
03:25 - That's where--
03:26 - Which is sort of, you know, it's gonna make you cry.
03:29 - Oh, very.
03:30 - Yeah.
03:31 - But truly, it is a really emotional moment.
03:33 - And they both just sort of,
03:35 in the middle of this like madcap farce of a movie,
03:37 decide to just sort of like act the shit out of it
03:39 for a few minutes.
03:40 - Show off those, Tony, show off those Emmys.
03:42 - Yeah, exactly.
03:43 - The hardware.
03:44 - So I would say those are probably the favorites.
03:45 - Yeah.
03:46 - The three of us stayed in the same hotel in Burbank,
03:48 and then on nights--
03:50 - Peak Omicron, we were like not--
03:51 - Peak Omicron.
03:52 - We were not seeing a human who wasn't like tested that day.
03:55 - But we would have little nights where we would go
03:57 to the hot tub and just sit and gab,
03:59 and those were really special.
04:01 - I ordered a lot of chicken Caesar salads at the--
04:05 - Turkey Club.
04:05 - Hotel Amarano.
04:06 - Hotel Amarano.
04:07 - Where old Hollywood meets new Burbank.
04:10 - That was the tagline.
04:11 - About the Hotel Amarano.
04:13 Beautiful hotel.
04:14 - Gorgeous.
04:15 - And that's an exclusive, that's a DadLine exclusive.
04:17 - DadLine.
04:18 - We talk about dads, right?
04:19 (laughing)
04:20 DadLine.
04:21 Yeah.
04:23 - That was my personal highlight,
04:24 because I was in and out, but it was so--
04:26 - Well, I mean, we already talked about just getting
04:27 to work with these people we revere,
04:29 who then were fabulous and fun to work with,
04:31 but also we shot on this little chicken shit lot
04:35 in North Hollywood, and it was just us there,
04:37 so it felt very summer camp,
04:39 where everyone there was working on this kooky little movie,
04:41 and we shot it in 20 days,
04:43 so it felt very summer camp.
04:47 - We play the twins, Trevor and Craig,
04:50 who are alpha male, self-obsessed.
04:54 - Straight man drags.
04:55 - Straight man drags.
04:56 - You know, like what a drag queen does for women,
04:58 we're sort of doing for the idea of the straight man.
05:00 - Yeah, so those are our guys.
05:02 - Yeah.
05:03 My character is, I think, really eager
05:09 to share this new addition to,
05:11 it's not only, you know what I realized?
05:13 It's not that he even wants to add it
05:15 as a new book in the Bible,
05:16 it's the first book in the new, new Testament.
05:20 So it's kicking off a whole third book.
05:22 - You did more work than I ever realized.
05:24 (laughing)
05:26 You've been really exploring.
05:29 I wanna see your binder with all your tabs.
05:31 - Lots of tabs.
05:32 I put like this, God is really excited
05:35 to share this really biblical story.
05:38 - Yeah, yeah.
05:40 (upbeat music)
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