ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with legendary comedy director Peter Farrelly about his latest film, Ricky Stanicky.
“When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble,” reads the synopsis. “Twenty years after creating this ‘friend,’ Dean, JT, and Wes still use the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. When their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet the fabled Mr.
Well, I loved the idea from the moment I heard it. And it was by a guy named Jeff Busell, like 15 years ago. But we kept developing, developing, developing. And like a lot of scripts we’ve done, they all take forever. It’s unbelievable how long they take. But this one took a particularly long time, and it was ’cause it probably wasn’t right yet. It was thin.
John, by far, is the most prepared actor I ever worked with by far. He literally had the entire script memorized on day one — the entire script. Like if I said, right now, let’s go to scene, page 62, seeing this, tell me what happens. He memorized. He doesn’t have to look at it. He read that thing over and over and over. Like was doing a stage play. And so it wasn’t hard keeping him.
So then we got our music supervisor, Tom Wolf, and his partner Manish Revelle. They had to find songs to clear before we did it. We didn’t want to go writing songs. So we said, “Ask them if we can get songs that we can clear.” So they said, “These guys are gonna make songs about masturbation, about your song. You okay with it?” “Yeah, sure.” So we had like four or five people, and then we did it. So we kind of did it backwards.
Let’s talk about that opening flashback with the kids. How was it finding those kids? They were just as funny as the adults. And the same thing with Andrew and Jermaine. They think like standup comedians, which I like. But the first thing we always do is just do what’s scripted. Both of ‘em, they were great. You know, I’ve been a huge fan of Andrew’s for years. And I didn’t know Jermaine until this, but he was excellent.
Absolutely. Guaranteed. A hundred percent. I’m going to do two more seasons. I don’t know where yet, but we’re going to do it. The show’s too good. It is the nicest surprise of my entire career, without question. That was just gone. And no one saw it. And we loved it. And we were all hung out — all of us, the group.
Oh, thanks. It means everything. I loved it. I was in LA nine years before we got a movie made. We were writing scripts and selling scripts. people said, “you must have been so happy.”
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