Interview With The Cast of WORKAHOLICS About Their New Netflix Original Movie GAME OVER, MAN
After 7 long seasons on Comedy Central's popular series Workaholics key cast members Blake Anderson, Adam Devine and Anders Holm have reunited for their first ever feature film, Game Over, Man. The Netflix original premieres on Netflix this Friday, March 23. I got a chance to sit down with the guys and talk about their big jump from TV to feature films.
GT: All right, so is this the first feature you guys have done together since Workaholics?"
Adam Devine: Yeah this is the first one.
GT: So then it was action, this kind of the genre, always the one you wanted to do first, or why did you choose action?
Devine: The episodes of Workaholics that we had the most fun shooting where the episodes that had some fun action sequences or at least some suspense to them. And so, we did an episode in season one where we got high on mushrooms and decided to camp out in the office at night and we think that we're under attack and it turns out it's just I.T. guys working late. But the whole episode is us trying to escape from the building.
Blake Anderson: High Stakes!
Devine: And we're too high to figure it out. That was sort of the kernel of the idea for this movie was like...we saw that we could make like an action-ish movie from that very idea.
Anders Holm: Yeah, we realize we were funny when the stakes were high. Does that makes sense?
Anderson: And a lot of the movies we grew up on and love were some of the best actions of all time. So we were kind of just raised on them.
GT: Yeah you got the sense there were little nuggets throughout the movie that were references to those.
Devine: Arnold, Stallone and Jean-Claude raised us.
Anderson: mhmmm
GT: There's a lot of crazy stuff happens in this movie. I got to know, is there any of it that's based on actual incidents?
Devine: I'm always trying to fake a suicide with my dick out. So its a running bit that I have.
Anderson: All right we'll put it in the movie, geez!
Devine: We get it you've been pitching this idea for 10 years.
Anderson: That's what he kept calling and I'm pitching in something every time he'd walk out naked.
Devine: WHAT? I was "pitching!"
GT: Also the movie is full of cameos. I was amazed at how many people kept popping up. Who was the most fun set, which of all the cameo folks did you guys have the most fun with?
Devine: We love Daniel Stern!
Holm: Yeah.
Devine: Danny Boy! What's up D-Stern? I mean he's definitely the guy that when we were kids loved him in absolutely everything that he was in and it turns out we still do. He's the best!
Holm: He's the man!
Anderson: Super nice guy! Just the best.
GT: And you guys are also known for a lot of physical comedy, there was a lot of fighting in this movie. Are there any stories in getting hurt or anything funny that happened during these fight sequences?
Devine: Oh, I got shot!
Anderson: Adam got shot!
Holm: Yeah, back of the leg, right?
Devine: Ya, I still have a little scar back there. Ya, they use these things called squibs and they're basically like little metal paint balls like super super hard plastic and they explode on impact and, uh, he wasn't part of the stunt team, he was part of the...
Anderson: Stoney Bologna!
Holm: This idiot shot Adam. I mean...
Devine: He was supposed to tag up the wall right next to me...
Holm: Right, so it looks like the bullets are hitting..
Devine: ...or exploding and I'm running out and he just like shoots me back my leg and it hurt so bad! but it was like the first or second day of shooting so like it was so early on that I didn't want to seem like a total bitch about and like complain.
Anderson: I know, it was kinda like, 'Oh, come on Adam." And then he like pulls is pant leg up and it's like BOOM. Oh!
Devine: It's bleeding and its like a perfect circle.
Anderson: And we look up at the guy and he's like... [shrugs]
Holm: He's just perched up and he's like 'Did I tag ya?'
Devine: Did I tag ya? Eh?
GT: Nice. Big fans of Workaholics are sure going to love seeing you guys together again. Can we expect to see you guys join up and work together in the near future?
Holm: Not after this nightmare
[All laugh]
Devine: Anders!
Holm: Nope, it needs to be said.
Devine: Okay this is where he's drawing the line. Well you heard it here first, an exclusive.
Holm: All I need everyday is a sandwich and they kept taking my sandwich.
Anderson: Sorry, dude!
Devine: Sorry, man.
Anderson: But in seriousness, YES I would like to another one with them. They are my best friends and I like to make movies with them.
Holm: Oh my gosh! Will you touch him for me?
GT: You kind of tease a sequel at the end, is it a joke, or is it something you guys are really thinking about?
Holm: We want it to be real, we're like 'hey, man...'
Devine: Yeah, we're trying to will it into existence
Holm: I'll say this, we re-shot the last scene. The scene that was there before was a lot more of a downer, a little bit more of a 'well we're back to our regular lives now' and we all we tested the movie and people are kind of disappointed, they wanted us to like take it to the next level. So we re-shot the last scene and Netflix was like 'Alright we want to see what this is all about' and we said, you know we wrote it in there and we teed up a sequel, and they were like 'OK!' So?
Devine: Could be cool! So yeah, we want to make a sequel and you know we're best friends, we love making movies together so we're going to see how long we can stay on this ride!