“I Love You Man” director John Hamburg reflects on his socially awkward 2009 bromance and discusses a potential sequel.
“Granted, I’m the movie’s director, but to me, Paul’s performance is as good as anything that got nominated for awards ,” says Hamburg, recalling Rudd’s unfiltered—and perhaps underappreciated—brilliance in his bromantic comedyare doing takes enormous skill and commitment. You really need to be gifted to execute that.”
“I’d been trying to make a project that I couldn’t quite make the way I wanted to and then I remembered this script,” Hamburg says about his route to Levin’s story, which was then titledis the way to tell this story.’ That’s when I started coming up with my version, which started with the Peter Klaven character and the idea of someone who’s very comfortable around women, has tons of girlfriends and female friends, but is super-awkward around men. That unlocked everything.
“I had this instinct that Paul Rudd and Jason Segel were the only two people who I wanted to be in those roles,” he tells us. “I found them to be two of the most inventive and funniest actors, and they played it real, which is key to any odd-couple story. Obviously they’ve gone on to become huge stars, but at the time they hadn’t been the leads in many studio movies.
These unfathomable comedy depths are best showcased by Rudd’s prowess on the invisible bass guitar. As Peter bonds with Sydney over a shared mutual love of Canadian rock outfit Rush, he
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