Vince Vaughn is getting candid about why the type of R-Rated movies he's been known for are no longer being made. The actor rose to fame in the late '90s and early 2000s with his hard R-rated movies such as 'Wedding Crashers,' 'Old School' and 'Swingers.' But he recently shared on 'Hot Ones' why he thinks those films not being made in this day and age saying movie execs are "overthinking it."
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00:00How have you seen Hollywood's interest in making those kinds of films change over the
00:04course of your career?
00:05And what do you think are the forces at play?
00:07Well, they just overthink it.
00:08Vince Vaughn is getting candid about why the type of R-rated movies he's been known for
00:13are no longer being made.
00:15The actor rose to fame in the late 90s and early 2000s with his hard R-rated movies such
00:20as Wedding Crashers, Old School and Swingers.
00:23But he recently shared on Hot Ones why he thinks those films are not being made in this
00:27day and age, saying movie execs are overthinking it.
00:30It gets crazy.
00:31You get these rules.
00:32It's like if you did geometry and you said 87 degrees was a right angle, then all your
00:38answers are messed up instead of 90 degrees.
00:40He noted, so there became some idea or concept like they would say something like, you have
00:44to have an IP.
00:45The star proceeded to use the board game Battleship as an example, saying the IP became a vehicle
00:50for storytelling just because it had a recognizable name.
00:54Whereas like an IP like John Hughes from our neck of the woods, right?
00:57An IP was a girl's turning 16, like every girl turns 16 or I'm going to cut school,
01:03you know, life situations or old school.
01:05What if I got to go back and, you know, be in a fraternity now at this stage of the game?
01:09He continued, they want to kind of follow a set of rules that somehow get set in stone
01:14that don't really translate.
01:15But as long as they follow them, they're not going to lose their jobs because they can
01:19say, well, look, I made a movie off the board game Payday.
01:22So even though the movie didn't work, you can't let me go, right?
01:25But the actor still has hope for the future and predicted that audiences would see more
01:29films similar to his R-rated comedies again.
01:32People want to laugh.
01:33People, people want to look at stuff that feels a little bit like it's, you know, dangerous
01:38or pushing the envelope.
01:39And I think you're going to see more of it in the film space sooner than later would
01:43be my guess.
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