![]() ![]() Q: Can you talk about being cast? Were you just like, “These guys are funny. So after a few discussions and then getting on set and rolling, other stuff starts to come out in the character. So we chose not to kind of do that clichéd thing even though that was kind of the idea in the beginning, “Do that cop.” But it wasn’t really playing. But we decided not to play it like that because it’s been kind of done and we wanted to go in another way. You happen to be seeing a scene where he’s upset. One of the obstacles or challenges was this character really in the beginning just really gave information, moved the plot along and kind of served, functioned as, as not exactly that… I’ll get to that in a second… Because we didn’t want to do that. My personal thing is this is a scene where you have to come in… When I read it this morning, I thought about it again, I thought, “You know, you’ve got to come in, deliver the lines, deliver the information and turn around and leave.” There was a lot of that, and that was one of the discussions early on. Keaton: Well, today’s a pretty straight ahead scene. Q: …So is there a little bit more to your character than we see today, or is it kind of that archetypal character? Q: The angry police captain is a character we’ve seen in a lot of movies throughout the years… The one I directed, I obviously had to watch several times. Unless I have to watch them for some reason. Keaton: No, no, no, I haven’t seen one of my movies for many, many years. Have you looked back at a lot of that stuff at all recently? Q: You’ve done a lot of ’80s comedies, police comedies and also a lot of your ’80s comedy work. I would think a good deal of it would be used myself. This cast is so unbelievably funny, uniformly funny, that, hell, if you get 11 percent of this stuff, I think that’s great. Keaton: (laughs) Well, you know what? These guys are so good. Q: Did you ever feel like any of this stuff will actually be used? ![]() Because you still have to tell the story. Here we take exits and go off the road a little bit, but I’m sure that Adam will in editing pull back and get it on the road. But not to this degree, and also you have to always remember to… well, you don’t have to I guess… (laughter) but you try to do it within character and also to stay on story. ![]() The first feature film I did, when I did “Night Shift,” I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition so sometimes I would return to the original lines and then when I was on set I would improvise even more. Q: Have you ever done a role like this where you’ve been allowed to improvise so much or do so much ad-libbing? In recent years, Keaton certainly hasn’t been around as much, maybe doing an odd indie movie or two, so this movie certainly seems like it could create a nice resurgence for the actor from the funny he was bringing to the one scene we watched filming. Mom, Multiplicity and so many other funny movies. One of the biggest thrills of being on the set of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s The Other Guys was having a chance to interview Michael Keaton, having been a fan of much of his earlier work from the ’80s – Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and Batman movies, Night Shift, Mr. ![]()
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