Quote of the Day: Justin Theroux
On writing Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller:
"It's a Vietnam comedy, it's contemporary. It's about a bunch of exceedingly stupid actors… They all go to make this incredibly big budget Vietnam movie in Vietnam and they get lost in the jungle, and they end up having to rely on their shoddy knowledge from boot camp they did for a week. They actually run into a real guerilla drug army, and they think they're extras basically, so they end up fighting a real war, not knowing they're fighting a real war.
"[W]e came up with an idea when we were watching Platoon DVD extras, and Ben thought it'd be funny, he was like, 'All these guys in this movie go to the same boot camp for two weeks, and they're very serious…' The actors were like 'We went to this boot camp, it was pretty intense.' It was really kind of pretentious, and we thought, 'Wouldn't it be funny if they did a movie about a bunch of actors who go to a boot camp and come back and have post-traumatic stress disorder in Hollywood?'"
Comingsoon.net interview
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