Vince Vaughn
Appearances
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You were great. Always so funny. And it was like our Burt Reynolds phase. What do you mean? What do you mean? Well, we just go to a location that's great and set a story, right? It's a bunch of friends. Cannonball run. It's like, I don't know. It looks like those guys are like, let's go.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But we just were looking for a place that would be, you know, amazing that no one had heard of, and that's what they found. That's fast. We should do the sequel on a ski mountain.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You fucking kill me. Some of the stuff you added just in that scene with Jen and I on the couch when you're like the counselor and the realtor was so funny.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I'm like, this guy's fucking... Maybe that's why I was invited back. Fucking killing me.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You know, it was fun to do the one time, but I think I'd get bored night after night. No, you wouldn't. Wouldn't you guys? You guys, this is a super fun show, and you guys have fun. You have each other to joke with.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
It was Letterman, right, Vince? It was Letterman. Yeah, it was Letterman. I had fun doing it. It was fun. But I don't think I would just get bored. Don't you like going on to a new project?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I think the three of us might be similar where I don't like to be on all the time. Yeah. You know, I don't. I like to joke around and I appreciate a sense of humor, but I'm not out there swinging all day. I like to kind of slow it down. Like I like to joke, but I don't like that.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, I think younger more so. Once in a while, someone thought they were funny for their group, and so they would try to do something, and I would really eviscerate them. I would get their friends to fucking turn on them.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And then I would like have a private moment, like their friends would be laughing at them, you know, and I would have a private moment, like looking at them, like you thought this was gonna go good. Like, this is your story. You wanted this, here we are.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But then I kind of figured it was better, I think, as it was better as I got older, you just kind of, you know, try to kill them with kindness, right? You learn that minimal is better. But as I get older, I still get a lot of quotes, and yes, people will come up.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But now that the comedy's played, and you guys tell me, because isn't it funny, as you get older, people will share with you how they were hurting or a family member was sick.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And how the comedies was really something they would watch multiple times. So now it's more of an emotional connection than it was when it first hit younger when it was just kind of a funny connection.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, you know, first off, I think the same as you. My journey's been the same as you. I was fortunate to do, like, Hacksaw Ridge, and then this stuff with Zoller, you know, Brawl and Drag. But now I'm dying to do a comedy again. Like, I'm so, it's like Sullivan's Travels, right?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Like, you know, and like Ozarks, I thought, and it was incredible, and the fact that you were, you know, directing those and running those on top of it. And you get your plate full, I'm sure, it's great. And it's fun, but it does make you miss, in agreeance with you, that kind of... Nice studio ensemble comedy where you're working every other day, maybe.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, it's true. And then I think as far as it going away, you know, here's what I'll say to you. I just was saying this. I think what happened is we went through a terrible time. Like, if you remember the 80s, they tried it with the lyric censorship of those albums. Like when N.W.A., I thought, was such a great album. And then they started putting these warning labels on albums like Parents.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And it kind of made the albums blow up. Like, the albums still came out. And it made everyone buy them more. But I think they succeeded a little bit with the studio system. to say there's, you know, now we're going to decide what's funny, what's not, or what's joking, which is crazy, because it's of my opinion, like if you go back to Greek mythology, human nature has always been the same.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And, you know, clearly with entertainment, it's a place to explore. A song, a story is a place to explore rage or lust or selfishness or anything. It's the outlet. It's like MMA is the place to explore, or football, you know, not out on the streets, but most people, you know, watching a football game don't take that as a sign that they will get rewarded for tackling someone.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So I think there's just a lostness of like how dumb people must be to think like this is a how-to video. It was insane to me. And so I think we went through this reign of terror of being policed of like, you know, what is and what isn't versus leaving people their tone. But it never went away. And I mean that, Jason, from this. I think you guys can appreciate this.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
The stand-up comics, when we were doing the big R comics, were not that huge, meaning there was a real run in the 80s. They all got their own TV shows. And, you know, people, you'd go on Carson and that was it. You were off to the races. That was the path, yeah. That was the path.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But then, like in the 90s, I did this documentary for some guys that I liked that were comics because there just wasn't opportunities. Well, then what happened was... The appetite from the audience for funny art, you know, adult, dangerous, shocking comedy never went away.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But because the studios weren't making them, you know, Bill Burr, who's great, and other comics like him started selling out Madison Square Garden. They started selling out the Forum. And Netflix started paying $20 million for those specials. instead of putting that money behind a story and a movie. So they never really went away.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Those guys were always, you know, making jokes in areas like Bill will make fun of, you know, having to stand up for veterans, which isn't an obvious path to the waterfall or, you know, men and women relationships. But people laugh and he gets to do it in a way where society appreciates it and no one takes it as a literal thing. So I think like it never went away. It really helped the standups.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But my sense is, is that it's gonna come back roaring in a big way. Because I think anything other than that, of any kind of questioning of it, is just an illustration of how arrogant someone might be to think they're in charge of who the fuck is worthwhile.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You know, because it's a story that, when it works, it's such a powerful thing. So, yeah, I think it's... And now some of them are going, like, if you look at even what happened with Shane, with Gillis...
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You know, there was like, he can't, now they're all clamoring for Shane because he built an audience, you know, was able to reach people directly, you know, and people realize this guy's funny and coming with a point of view and he's trying to make people laugh, right? So he's really had a huge opportunity because he was able to go directly to the audience.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You know, I think— Was this that model in some ways, do you think, this podcast? Nah, this felt— This is an accident.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
No, I'll have it as an option. Some days on, some days off, but we'll be there with it.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, I loved Red Fox. It was all of those guys. There was stuff I used to just watch like endlessly. And I would just, I always kind of gravitated to the, I think it's a little bit like, well, isn't it like with kids, you hide your eyes and then they laugh because you're getting ahead of them. It's like horror. The jump scare and the joke, there's something in going where you don't expect it.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, it's all surprise. Yeah, surprise, right? So the stuff that was more, Kind of like points of view that was not norm was such a fun place in a show or a movie to see someone with that attitude was fun. That's why Bateman in It's Your Move made me laugh. It kind of reminded me like Jay Fox had that.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I went to the Woodfield Mall, Brookfield Mall, and then I went to Northbrook Court.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Question for you. What was the name of the roller coaster before they turned it into the demon? The Eagle? No, the Eagle was later. That was the fastest wooden roller coaster. And as you would wait for two hours in the Midwest, the thing we would share with each other is say, this is the biggest wooden roller coaster. Yeah. That was hard.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
How do you... I can't confirm or deny it, but I believe... It's tough to ask a trivia question you don't know the answer to, but I'm pretty sure that that's what it was.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I do, you know, I always say I grew up in Chicago, I was raised in Chicago, but I grew up in California because I moved here at 18. So I always felt a connection. I think everyone from there does. And then I always felt such a connection to California because at 18, I moved here and made it my home. But I do go back in the summer. I always enjoy going there. It's a super fun city.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Lots of fun, obviously. I just had to break up there because I was from there and I wanted to be in this city. So yeah, in the summertime, I'll go back usually. But with the kids, I'm so busy with kid stuff. Aren't you guys running around like crazy? Yeah.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You get a deal there sometimes? The winter's cold. The winters are different. The winters are tougher out there.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And to be in full disclosure, the night before I ran into some of the Blackhawks and I had a couple of drinks that evening. Come on. I was up late. What? I was. And so I got up with a very few hours of sleep. But I was committed. I made a date with skydiving and I didn't break the date.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I didn't know what was happening. I was just talking to the Golden Knights. They were very professional. They were military. They were great. And they were telling me all the things. Had you done it before? My mom was with me. No, I have never.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yes, and I enjoyed it. It was an interesting thrill, but it's not something I would sign up for all the time. But it was enjoyable. Have you skydived, the three of you?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I think the three of you to go skydiving would be a nice time. You three should book a date on the calendar, circle it.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I know, but you know what? You be safe. You're attached to the people. You do an air train. How does that make it safe?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Well, he moved out from Chicago after Rudy. And then we became friends on the set. And so we hung out and we moved to Hollywood. And I used to go to all those places were real places. I used to love to go hear the swing music. all the ex-punk rockers formed these swing bands. And then the Dresden was just a great local bar with all ages.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I loved the Dresden because you could get like a 75-year-old in there. And it was just like, I liked Marty and Elaine were so fun to go watch.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So I love that. And then John moved to that area. And so we used to just hang out and go out a lot. And then I think I said to him one day, like kind of what Jason was saying just now, which was, why are we auditioning for these scripts and these things that are so out of touch and like what's going on?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Because a lot of the scripts were either like tough guy scripts where like everyone knew everything or they were like, you know, they just weren't fulfilling of the time. And so John, I said, maybe write something. And John came back and had wrote Swingers. And I think in like two weeks or three weeks, he got like a screenwriting book and kind of put it in that form.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And then we started meeting and talking and going through the script and talk about, you know... All this stuff. But the part that was crazy was that we thought we could get it made. You know, when you look back at it, that's the part that's insane. We were like under our wing. We're like, okay, well, we're going to make this. So now let's start the journey.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
We'd meet like a couple times a week, talk on the phone a lot. Okay, who do we think we can get? It was crazy. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You know, the thing that was interesting was, as you could imagine, the crew we assembled was not, you know, they were just people looking for a job. I think our sound guy specialized in adult films. And so we're really committed.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
The sound was very... He brought a... I think the set was a slow day for him every day on the set. But we were taking it serious. And I think the scene... There's the scene where I stand up on the table was improvised, where I stand up and I start doing the dance and stuff at the restaurant.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And the reason I did that was partially I could just feel the crew looking at us like, what are these guys... Like the whole shoot, like, what's going on?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And so I kind of made it like, I'm the asshole, I'm the asshole at the restaurant, kind of came from like I was kind of reacting to the Cruise feeling of like, this guy's out there and people are looking at you in a restaurant like you're going too far. But it was really kind of that.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So we loved it, but it wasn't like, you know, on the set, other than the actors, there was a real feeling that this thing was working. And then we did not get into Sundance, was the first step. Wow. And then, but we still loved the movie. And then it got picked up, obviously, by Miramax and released. And then it really just kind of grew over time. It started to get quoted so much.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And, you know, ESPN started, you know, saying, you're Money Baby. And then, you know, Vegas Baby started, you know, still is kind of you. So then it just sort of hit this. And I think... Part of what I think worked about it is there was a vulnerability to these guys. They weren't winning every situation. Yes. Everything's not going their way. They don't have all the tools.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And it was really a friendship in that you're helping someone pass a breakup. And I think the vulnerability and, you know, you go out going to meet girls, but a lot of times you'd end up playing EA hockey. Yeah, totally. And ordering a pink tie. So I think there was a relatability that wasn't taking itself too seriously.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
The one thing with the last scene of the movie was... I was flying home to do the movie, to do Swingers, and I was sitting at the airport, waiting in these rows of seats, and I could see the counter. And there was an older gentleman at the counter who kept smiling and waving at me.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And I had not done anything, no one knew who I was, so I was like, why is this guy so confidently waving at me, like real aggressively? So I tried everything. I tried to be like not, I was distracted. I tried to look at him mean. I tried to, you know, roll my eyes at him. But it did not deter him. He was just overly playful and doing shit with me. I was like, what is going on?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And then once he got his ticket, he came walking right towards me. I thought, this can't be real. No one can be this fucking tunnel vision. This is crazy. And he walked right in front of me, and he had a baby that he was entertaining. Yeah. in the row in front of me. And I was like, this is fucking crazy.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I thought this motherfucker was waving and smiling at me, but really he's entertaining a fucking toddler. So I called John and I said, you know, cause Trent is such a great character and confident and fun and all of it, but you really focus on the transformation of his character of growing
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And sort of the great thing that John wrote in the movie is when he kind of is himself and doesn't try hard at the bar and says, yeah, I like quiche, real men. He's like, yeah, I guess my reputation. When he's not trying to be something he's not is when the door opens, is when the girl connects to him.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And so the kind of compliment to that at the end, I thought it was fun if you go... Because some of those movies would always wrap up where the character would explain the movie at the end. You know, here's the monologue where I tell you the theme of the movie. And I'm like, why are they doing that? If the movie did its job, I don't need the character to explain the theme of the movie to me.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So kind of as a misdirect... The fun of it was for Favreau to say, you know what, I didn't know. And then all of a sudden it hit me and you're like, oh God, they're going to do this in the movie where now the character explains the journey. And then I start thinking the girl is waving at me and smiling at me as a way to sort of pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Like, you know, Trent is, in the way he sees things, a good friend and helpful, but John kind of gets quiet and stares off as if to say he's not searching for some pickup stuff. you know, or how to meet someone, he sort of found an inner truth that's kind of transcended him into this next phase of his life.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And so I think there's an optimism because you know he's got past the breakup and there's the openness for love. And we're also kind of moving past, which I think is an important stage, that adolescent stage that we all go through where you are figuring out how do you make a connection? How do you say hi to someone? How do you date?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
There's a moving past that to being more yourself and finding a partner that likes you because you're comfortable with who you are. Yeah, for sure.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
We all do in our own ways, don't we? Oh, shit, Jason. Don't think I'm waking up with fried chicken on my mind. We all go through that cycle, don't we?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Oh, did I? Yeah. I might have. Without giving away too much, are you... Hancock Park. Hancock Park. Okay. We gave away a lot, but yes. I love that. I lived in Hancock Park. I lived on Rossmoor when I was real.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Well, I've gotten more comfortable because I live in a beach town, but I'm not a surfer. I didn't grow up skateboarding. I don't have balance in that way. I respect the ocean. It's a powerful entity. I like to go in and cool off.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I like to go in and cool off on occasion. My kids like to go. It's like the amusement park. That's the thing with waiting to have kids until you're older. I'm conscious, like, I don't want to be, you don't want to be an old father. So you force yourself to do the stuff that one would have done when they were younger. But sometimes I'm not filled with joy while I'm participating.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
My daughter plays volleyball. Her team just, she plays for a volleyball club, Mizuno at 13 and they took third in the Junior Olympics. Is that right? No shit. Yeah, good for her. That's amazing. So she got your height and your leaps? She's a good athlete. Yeah, she's on the tall side. She enjoys that.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But yeah, we're just here, you know, obviously the kids and stuff, they get a lot of freedom to walk around and, you know, kind of participate and do stuff. I like the freedom for the kids. I think it's so nice if they can kind of, you know, navigate their own friend day. Right, right. Like the way we did, if the parents aren't so involved.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Vince. Good morning. I like the steamy. The steamy's excellent. It's confident in the morning, Will, and I like that. And a necklace that draws my eyes as well. Dreams are important. I don't know what fried chicken in a dream means, but I think it's something that you might want to look under the hood. And Bateman, I love that you are still figuring out how to record because I'm the same way.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
It's easier for us, and I think they get to grow quicker what they like and what they don't like because they're making those choices, and this gives a little more freedom to bike around and be able to do that.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I agree. I so agree with you. If you look at us, all of us born in 1970, and even in our conversation with two of us, you know, some of us not going to college, we were given a lot of bandwidth. Yeah. And we made mistakes, but there was a lot of figuring out just problem solving. Yes. And so I think if you're too restrictive with the kids...
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
you know, if you do it Little House style, like you and Peter B, then they just, they have a harder time. Like, when do they actualize? Is it at like 17 all of a sudden you say, okay, now you're going out there? So I think having conversations, hopefully they feel comfortable talking to you about stuff. But, you know, you're right. Like, if you go to a mall,
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
you know, or you're on the phone, you have a chance to come across stuff that the parents aren't involved in. It's better for them to figure out that navigating to some degree. With guardrails, obviously.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
No, he's great. I used to play in a poker game with him when I was like 19, and he was super funny, and he was a comic at the time. So I knew him. He was a friend. Is Bad Monkey a comedy or is it drama? Well, it's kind of both. It's a Carl Hiaasen book about a detective in Florida. And so the personalities are fun and comedic, but the stakes are real in the kind of crime you take seriously.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And so it was just great to get a chance to work with someone who's such a good writer who, as an actor, you can go and play around, be funny, wants your ideas, and, you know, but knows, you know he knows how to put it together and you're not gonna, you know, have to go through that process.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So that builds, you know, I think for all of us, when you work on a set and you've done it as long as we have, and this is another thing, as we get older, you know, when we were younger, the crews were so dialed in. Yeah. You know, you had to be an apprentice to be a prop person for years, right? Yeah. And so now they're making so much more stuff.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So when you get to go on a set and it's really well run and, you know, the guy in charge really is fun and it makes it for a good day. Yeah, that's great.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Such a fan of the show and all of you guys. It was a blast to get the chance to come on and talk to you guys. So great to see you all.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
This looks like blue skies and clear waters ahead, so thank you for having me as a passenger tonight. Oh, he referenced the ocean again.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I went north of the border, Arnett. You know what it's about. Fucking A, buddy. Fucking A-rights. Fucking A-rights.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Vince, I don't know if you listen, but we always talk about you on this show. No, I listen a lot, and that's nice coming from all three of you. All three of you are funny and joke around, and I've had fun with all of you.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Well, you know, like you, I started acting very young, but just in community stuff. So like both my parents worked, so I was always performing. I just gravitated to it, you know, probably lack of success in other areas. And for some reason, I felt like good attention there. And I have to say, like, as a kid, this is something I talked to Phillips about.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
That show that you did that was on where you were such a smart ass on that show. What was that one called with the checkerboard? Yeah, It's Your Move. You were so fucking funny in that. Me and Todd, when we were working with you on Starsky and Hutch, I brought it up. He's like, I loved him on that fucking show. You were such a fucking confident kid who didn't care what people thought about you.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But I just kind of liked stuff always as a kid. That stuff made me laugh. Like Sanford and Son, he made me laugh.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
You know what I mean? Like Red Fox, he just didn't care. And it wasn't like he had a lot of skills, but he wasn't going to have his day bothered. I don't know. I just kind of found that stuff funny. So I was always performing well. Started doing improv in high school with ImprovOlympic and got an agent in high school and started working and then came out.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But where Swingers we got benefited from, I think, is John and I were hanging out. He came out to Los Angeles. And then he sort of took stuff that was going on in our lives and jokes and things that we said and formed this screenplay. And because we were raising money for it, it's almost like Nichols used to do... what he would perform on Broadway before they would shoot something.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
We were trying to raise money, so we must have had five, six table readings of that thing. Wow. And so we had time to investigate it and think about it and tweak it slightly. And so when we went to go film it and the bars were open and they weren't closed, we weren't bothered because we were so well-versed with the material. Oh, that's amazing.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, Buffalo Grove and then Lake Forest, and then I went to Lake Forest afterwards. Yeah, Lake Forest is beautiful, by the way.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
What are the odds that two Americans were born in the third largest city in the country and now live in the second largest city in the country? But wait, it gets better.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, as a kid. I was in community theater where we would play the adult roles as young.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Do you remember? That was at the Borton Community Center, which is a place where Robin Williams went to high school when it used to be a high school. Like Bugsy Malone, right? You guys were playing. Yes, without the pies, but exactly. Exactly. Remember that one with Bale? They dazzled with the pies? It was all okay because they threw pies. Remember that one? Arnett, you had to see that one.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I was crazy for her. They were throwing whipped cream at each other and dressed as gangsters.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I only graduated because it was important to my parents, but I was done. I was ready to move on.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I have to say this, though. I want to just say this because one of the best performances I've ever seen in my life was you in Goodnight, Oscar. You saw that? How great was that? I cannot tell you how fucking blown away I was. That's very sweet. And this is just me being a kid of the age I am. The fact that that's not on film makes me want to murder somebody.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
That was such an incredible performance. That's very sweet, Vince. And he won the Tony, deservedly. And he won the fucking Tony. I think he should have gotten, if they could have given out two Tony. I couldn't believe it. If you did any one of those things, I was like, oh, he's older, he's got the fucking addictions. And then the piano playing. It was flawless.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Did you get Reggie Bush? Did someone take a Tony away? Were you taking money on the side? No, no, no.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Oh, I was fucking, yeah. Well, I didn't know, so I thought it was like a job interview in the Midwest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would be overly, like, kind of nice, and I think it was draining for the people. Like, they just wanted to see you read and could you do the part, but I would, like, go out of my way to be like, well, it was a pleasure to meet you. They'd be like, who the fuck is this guy?
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Well, that's a nice thing. I would always say, like, I was kind of coming from an insecure place, not humble, but I would always, for some reason, compliment the screenplay or the script. I'd say, this is really great. I mean, even if it was fucking terrible, I'd just say, wow, this is great stuff. after you had just finished improvising, probably, right? I don't even know.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
But I didn't really improvise on those. I was more kind of stuck to the page. And yeah, it's a weird process. The audition process is weird. Do you remember your last one? Well, the one thing in Swingers is because Favreau made fun of me, I had done a couple after-school specials. By the way, I was going to ask you about that. I saw you in one. Yeah, I did a couple of those.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I made my bones. I cut my teeth after school. No way. No way. We were tackling shit like sex and steroids. Yes, I saw that. We were bringing some sunshine to these houses that were filled in darkness.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
Yeah, one of them was a scene with Billingsley where I discover he's on steroids and I say, you're wired all the time. You're like some doper. He wanted Nicole Egert, I believe, to like him. And so he was pumping up some steroids to do some long distance running.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
And you know how they proved he was on steroids was, because he wasn't necessarily buff at the time, although in excellent shape, but he would just roll up the sleeves on his shirt one time. That was the transformation to say the steroids have happened. Oh, Christ. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I went in for an audition, and I started, and I didn't get, and I was like emotional. It was a real story.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
I came back, and Favreau asked me about it, and I said, yeah. God, I really had a great audition. These people were moved. I really got to the moment. And I was like, but I didn't get it because I'm like tall and I'm like three years older than they wanted for the party. He's like, well, why are you even going in for it? I said, I don't know. They just put me in.
SmartLess
"Vince Vaughn"
So that's why he kind of was making fun of me with that story where I make it like I was phenomenal and really a great performance, but I was just too old to get the part in the trailer.
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"Vince Vaughn"
Yes. And he just did a sequel that he produced and wrote for Christmas Story last year that turned out really well that was on HBO.