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Your Highness<\/strong>An Interview with James Franco and Danny McBride<\/strong>
\nby Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

April 7, 2011<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Coming out this week is the comedy film, ‘Your Highness,’ <\/strong>which reunites Academy Award nominee James Franco<\/strong> and Danny McBride<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The two actors previously appeared together in the 2008 comedy ‘Pineapple Express.’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

In ‘Your Highness,’ which is directed by David Gordon Green<\/strong> and co-stars Natalie Portman<\/strong>, Franco and McBride team up for an epic comedy adventure set in a fantastical world. As two princes on a daring mission to save their land, they must rescue the heir apparent’s fianc\u00e9e (played by Zooey Deschanel<\/strong>) before their kingdom is destroyed.<\/p>\n

At a recent press conference held in Los Angeles, both actors spoke about working together.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Which scene was the hardest for cracking up and that you almost didn\u2019t get through?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Danny McBride<\/strong>: You know, surprisingly the scene that I couldn\u2019t get through was this scene I had to do with Natalie where we\u2019re sitting at this table in this tavern and I have to confront her about stealing this compass. The way David Gordon Green directs, he\u2019s literally right out of frame of the camera and he stands there and he makes you say the most ridiculous things and you can\u2019t really hesitate. You have to just keep going through with it. In the scene, he\u2019s just like, \u201cCall her a bully and a whore.\u201d So I started just doing it without thinking about it and as soon as I looked at Natalie and the word \u201cwhore\u201d came out, it just felt horrible and I couldn\u2019t get through it. I had to just keep doing it over and over. That weirdly was the hardest thing for me to get through.<\/p>\n

James Franco:<\/strong> I think we had a hard time with the wise wizard too because we were acting with a puppet and we were short on time that day, so it was actually causing problems.<\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> We couldn\u2019t finish it.<\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> So that was a scene that was hard to get through.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In your historical research, did you find that the mullet was a common hairstyle in medieval times?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Well, historical accuracies were very important to us in this film. We really wanted to make this an educational film and show kids that people back in the Middle Ages, when there were two moons, acted just like people do now. We really kind of were modeling that haircut off Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. That was what we were kind of going for with that haircut.<\/p>\n

So it was the 1480s?<\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Yes, yes, they rocked the Mel Gibson Lethal Weapon haircut back then.<\/p>\n

Was there any wizard weed involved in the writing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> You know, I don\u2019t tend to partake in much wizard weed when I work on scripts. It\u2019s such a hard process and if you want to do it good, it seems like if you do partake in a lot of that, people don\u2019t tend to really want to watch the things that you come up with when you\u2019ve done that. With this film, it was really important for David and I when we were coming up with the idea that we only thought the comedy would work if the movie itself was approached as a serious fantasy film and that\u2019s where we would find the comedy so to us when it came time to cast the film, even with the craftsmen we pulled onto the film, the guy who designed the weapons designed the weapons for Braveheart and Apocalypto. Our production designer worked with Danny Boyle and the person who designed the armor had designed the armor for Kingdom of Heaven so we really just approached the movie as if it were a serious epic fantasy and we just found the comedy in the fact that the more serious we took the movie, the more the comedy seemed to work. In the writing of it, we thought of it as a comedy second and as an adventure movie first and then we really tried to find that humor on the set.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Was there a lot of improv?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> There was a ton. I\u2019ve worked with David a few times before and even the way we worked on Pineapple or even the stuff we\u2019ve done on Eastbound, we always tend to do one or two takes that are what\u2019s on the page. Then from there, David just gets in there and we just start pushing it. It\u2019s not always even just to find jokes. We\u2019ll just improv just so that everyone in the scene is on their toes and you find that reaction that maybe you wouldn\u2019t have gotten when the actor knows exactly what\u2019s coming next, so improv\u2019ing I think is essential to what we do and there\u2019s a ton of it in here, right James?<\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Yeah. And like Danny\u2019s saying, when you have a movie where you improvise during every scene, it\u2019s not just about finding funny lines. Like Danny was saying, it does something to the actors because you\u2019re more aware. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming next so you don\u2019t get lulled into a way of doing the scene the same way one time after another. So you\u2019re much more aware and it does something to the behavior. It makes it more immediate and makes it more alive and then David won\u2019t have you just improvise different lines. He\u2019ll have you say it in very weird ways, like say it like a robot or say it like you\u2019re taking a big dump.<\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> That was a direction he gave to Charles Dance at one point. It was very funny to see his reaction.<\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Yeah, I don\u2019t know if he liked that kind of \u2013 –<\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> He was just kinda like, \u201cWhat have I signed up for?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What was it like working with the guy who played Courtney?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Courtney was played by Rasmus Hardiker and it was one of those deals with him where we had been auditioning all these guys for Courtney and as soon as we saw him, before he even came in the room, you just kind of knew. This is our guy. He was sitting in the waiting room and out of all these people, you could identify that that was going to be our guy. He\u2019s comedically just brilliant. He\u2019s fast on his toes and he just killed that role. He was a lot of fun to work with.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re dealing with raunchy humor, was there anything you were surprised you got away with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Well, the fact that we made this movie was very surprising to us in the first place. David and I the whole time never really were convinced that someone would make this movie. To us, it was just this wild idea, this crazy movie that we wished Hollywood would take more chances and make crazier things and to us, that\u2019s what this was. It was an opportunity to make a film that we liked. That just seemed so specific for what we kind of wanted to see that we were surprised that someone was going to let us do that. There\u2019s tons of things that I can\u2019t believe are in there. It\u2019s the first Minotaur erection that has ever been filmed before.<\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Ever. If you think about it, it\u2019s the first time ever.<\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Yeah, a lot of people have tried and have not been able to accomplish it, but we did it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you grow up playing Dungeons &Dragons and did that inspire Simon? What movies did you watch for research?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> David Green and myself went to film school together. I was a freshman and he was in his second year of film school and we both lived in the same dorm. I met him the first week I was going to school there. When you go to film school, you\u2019ve got all these guys who are trying to show everyone how smart they are. When they talk about movies, they\u2019re talking about all these pretentious arty films because they think that that\u2019s the kind of movies you have to like if you\u2019re going to film school. One of the things that David and I instantly clicked on was that we appreciate those films, but at the same time we appreciated movies like Beastmaster and Krull and Dragonslayer, these fun movies that capture your imagination when you\u2019re a kid. So it was awesome to be able to actually try to make one of those movies and it just gave me a very good excuse to my wife of why I needed to be watching Krull on repeat all the time, because I really couldn\u2019t have gotten away with it unless I was getting paid for it so it was a selfish reason to make this film.<\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> The first film I ever saw in a movie theater when I was very young was The Dark Crystal and I\u2019d see that repeatedly in the theater. Then The Neverending Story and the original Clash of the Titans also, we\u2019d watch that on my friends\u2019 VCR. They\u2019re a little hokey now but still have a lot of charm.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Have you ever cleaned up your act to be the hero for a woman?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Well, despite how I may come across on screen, my act is pretty clean. I tend to play it clean. I got married last October so I have cleaned my act up.<\/p>\n

Even just being more polite?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Yeah, I was born in the South and was raised to respect ladies and to be a gentleman so that\u2019s something that\u2019s always been important to me.<\/p>\n

How challenging was it to pitch this script?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> You know, the first day we came in and pitched it, we pitched it as \u201cThis is Krull meets Barry Lyndon\u201d and the executives were like, \u201cNever pitch this movie like that ever again.\u201d But to us, that is what it was. We wanted to take it, approach it as a serious drama but at the same time have that fun that we had with a movie like Krull. That was always the concept. That was what was interesting about taking on this project is can you make a legitimate fantasy\/adventure movie like this and still find a way to find comedy in it without making it a spoof. I think that\u2019s what interested me and Green from the beginning was this\u2019ll be something interesting to try.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

James, the level of your prolific work has been so well known, they even spoofed it on SNL.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Not very well though. That guy didn\u2019t look like me at all.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about the public perception of your prolific work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s out of my hands really. I really went to school for myself. Sometimes I forget that it\u2019s actually not a public act. I\u2019m there just to learn and better myself. That part of my life is not a performance but in some ways it kind of has become material for public discussion to the point where The New York Times is interviewing my teachers. But I don\u2019t mind. I\u2019m proud of everything I\u2019m doing. So I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s just that part of my life is a performance and I perform as a job and part of it\u2019s kind of not, but what can you do? I can\u2019t control the attention.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re directing films, acting in 3 or more a year and we keep hearing your name attached to things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Well, there\u2019s also this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I\u2019m doing that I\u2019m not. I mean, somebody just doesn\u2019t have the time to do all the movies that people claim that I\u2019m going to do or I have acquired the rights to a lot of books that I love and I think it helps the writers to sell their books if they announce my attachment. But it doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m going to make the movies in the next year or two or three.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Can you talk about Natalie Portman and how she fit into the group?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> Well, David had been in talks with Natalie about another project and once we started to get some movement on Your Highness, it looked like that was what was going to be next. In his conversations with Natalie, she brought up this project and was saying that she was dying to do a comedy and really wanted a chance to work with us and we were thrilled by that because having actors like James and Natalie, to us that\u2019s what separates this movie. It\u2019s not a movie that\u2019s just filled with your typical comedians. It\u2019s cast with a lot of prestigious actors and that to us is what made this movie unique and fun. I honestly was really embarrassed to hand Natalie the script for the first time. I was like, \u201cShould I just go through and take out all this dirty stuff? I\u2019m nervous to show her this.\u201d David\u2019s like, \u201cNo, we\u2019ve got to let her know what she\u2019s in for.\u201d She was a total champ. The stuff that I thought would make her blush, that\u2019s the stuff that she thought was funny and totally embraced it. On the set, she never shied away from that stuff. She could definitely hang with the boys. She wasn\u2019t intimidated by any of the foul stuff going on.<\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> No, she wasn\u2019t. She embraced it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been in serious epics. Did any of that experience help you with this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> It\u2019s interesting. Somebody earlier today said we might have ruined this genre for anyone that wants to treat it seriously, because it really is hard to make an earnest fantasy film. Until Lord of the Rings and maybe the Harry Potter series, there haven\u2019t been too many of these films that have been embraced by an older audience. Usually they\u2019re thought of as kids\u2019 films. It is hard to just put on all that gear and I think people think of heroes in a different way now. Because this had a comedic element to it, it\u2019s like you can get away with that. So actually, I tried to play the character pretty earnestly. Because it\u2019s a comedy, we can get away with a lot of the cheesiness that maybe can hurt a film that\u2019s completely earnest. Because we get away with it, then you can actually address some of the real feelings and real dynamics between brothers and jealousy and feelings. That\u2019s kind of the secret of bromances. You can talk about relationships between guys and brothers because it\u2019s a comedy. If it was not a comedy, it would probably just be boring or cheesy.<\/p>\n

Or kinky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Yeah, kinky. You go the kinky route, it could work.<\/p>\n

What kind of training did you do for swordplay?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Well, Danny was the writer so he conveniently wrote his character as someone that was very bad at using swords so he didn\u2019t have to train at all. I trained a bit but I had done literally nine months of training seven days a week for Tristan & Isolde because I was a young actor that didn\u2019t know that was insane. I didn\u2019t get to use much of it in that film so I got to use it in this movie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Between Fred Simmons, Kenny Powers and this character, how do you modulate your comic archetype?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DM:<\/strong> With all these films, everything from \u2013 – when we did Foot Fist Way, that was a really independent film and we shot it for 70 grand and we shot it in like 17 days. We didn\u2019t have a lot of time but with that, Jody and I hadn\u2019t been writing things like that before that movie. I think we started approaching the story in figuring out that if we could change who the protagonist is and try to get the audience to align with someone who isn\u2019t typically who you align with in films, it opened up all these different comedic possibilities for where the story could go. With Foot Fist, I think we were just starting to scratch the surface with that and we wanted to do more with it but we had just blown our load on this independent film. That\u2019s why we set up Eastbound & Down so we could have a way to explore that architecture in a story of let\u2019s take this sort of convenient story and this almost clich\u00e9d story about an underdog, but let\u2019s put the audience with someone who they are not used to following in this story. That was kind of the design between those things. When it came time to approach this with the fantasy, it was one of those deals where it\u2019s like how do we find our stamp? How do we find our way here? Following your typical hero on a fantasy quest, it just felt like the only way we\u2019re going to be able to find comedy then is if we make the fantasy silly, if we make the action silly. So for us, once again it was just like shifting that lens of who you typically follow in these sort of films and trying to find someone that\u2019s a little bit more unexpected. It just allows you to hit some of those clich\u00e9d moments with a new perspective. To us, that\u2019s kind of comedically what was interesting about it and what separated it from other films that are in this genre. I think it\u2019s just a fine balance. I always come from a place of story so you\u2019ve got to just kind of find those layers of how exactly you\u2019re going to get an audience to root for someone that is so morally corrupt or makes these bad choices. So for each character, it\u2019s kind of a different thing. With Fred Simmons, he\u2019s dealing with adultery and loss and betrayal, so it\u2019s like alright, how do you have a guy do this but still find redemption? With Eastbound it\u2019s the same way. You just try to figure out what their wound is and how you can get an audience to get behind that wound and in this film, it was based on sibling rivalry. It was based on someone who felt like he was living in the shadow so it\u2019s just a matter of figuring out how can you play around with that and how can you get someone to identify with this person that normally they wouldn\u2019t identify with?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oz is one you\u2019re actually attached to, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> Yes, yes.<\/p>\n

What do you like about taking that on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> I love the idea of working with Sam again. I think it\u2019s going to be \u2013 – Sam is a master of combining classic Hollywood character types and storylines and ideas and then matching that with innovative technology. So I really think he\u2019s going to build an incredible world, but a world where we have room to play characters and have fun.<\/p>\n

Is there an end to Franco on General Hospital?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JF:<\/strong> No, there\u2019s going to be a lot more awesome groundbreaking stuff. Truly.<\/p>\n

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