Showing posts with label cameo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cameo. Show all posts

Thursday, June 1, 2023





One of the big themes of the season is that Dave claims he’s out there looking for love, but he also desperately wants to be famous. We get to the end of this episode, and Brad Pitt has a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest telling Dave that he needs to love himself before he can worry about fame. And instead of going to work things out with Robyn, you go to Africa to hang with Drake. How did you want to intertwine those ideas with these celebrity appearances?

One of the main themes is love and romance, and a guy in his early 30s trying to find the one. And the other is a young aspiring artist at the pinnacle of success as far as the way the world sees him within the lens of the show. There are a lot of interesting parallels between them that weave throughout, which was really well-shown in Episode Nine. You’re seeing a lot of how I approach art from a perfectionist lens, and that can mirror itself in how I approach love, and how it isn’t necessarily fair to approach love in the same way. I feel like in the first two seasons, my character in the finale has a choice: In the simplest terms possible, do the right thing or do the selfish thing. In the first two seasons, I did the right thing. I didn’t want to say this is the dark side ending, but you think he’s learned all of his lessons through this huge ordeal of a night with Brad and the stalker, and he’s finally going to put his quest for validation behind him and focus on the important things in life, such as love. But I think a lot of people will feel that I’m going with Robyn. And I see the ending as my character not being ready for love, because he doesn’t love himself yet. And he could drag Robyn along to Africa, but I think that deep down, he knew he wasn’t ready. So I think he went all-in on career, and we’ll see what happens next.

Has it become easier to get people to appear on the show than it was in the first season?

Oh, yeah. First season, before the show was even out, it would be, “Oh, hey, I hope you like my music videos,” or “You believe in me as a human being to an extent, as we barely know each other.” But a guy like Brad Pitt isn’t going to get in a show that he doesn’t think is one of the best shows. Because I have this show out, it’s a lot easier for a guy on Brad’s level to believe in it. It didn’t take me moving mountains to get Brad Pitt in the show. I just knew Brad Pitt really loved the show. And I knew Drake. When I met Drake, he told me our show was one of the most important shows of our generation. So when I’m getting feedback from these people, I in my heart believe that if I ask them to be in it, they maybe say yes. And of course, it’s a scheduling nightmare. But at the end of the day, it’s the show. Yes, they like me interpersonally, but it’s not like any of the guest stars are great friends of mine, other than Benny Blanco. The show itself, they’re able to see it for what it is. And it’s very good. Sometimes, I do feel like this show can be overlooked. And to have people like that, who are two pillars of the industries this show is circling around, say, “I want to be part of that” — nothing can feel better.

How did you even hear that Brad was a fan of the show?

Ben Sinclair from High Maintenance is a director on the show. He took a meeting at Brad’s production company, Plan B, and came back and said, “Aw, man, they love you over there at Plan B.” I thought, Huh, I wonder if that includes Brad. I asked Ben, and he said, “Yeah, I heard Brad really likes the show.” That’s all I had to go off of. I sent a real impassioned email just to Brad, someone gave me his email. I drafted it for days. Then I got a response back, from an email that I had never known. I don’t even know if I want to share the email that he sent me. But it was so incredible. It made me think, like, Is this real? It was also kind of mind-blowing that it took him walking on set, and me seeing Brad Pitt in real life, to believe that this was actually happening. And of course I have to meet him while I’m covered in slop in the scene where the talker is trying to cast a mold of my genitals. But man, Brad and Drake and Rachel, the best people I’ve ever worked with. They’re so down to earth, so good to the crew, and inspiring. Everyone walks around with a pep in their step when these people are on set. You could feel the purpose of everyone.

Did any of the guest stars this season who were playing themselves want to see exactly what you were going to do with them? Did anyone have notes or concerns about how these fictionalized versions of them would be portrayed?

I didn’t just say, “Show up on set! You’re gonna love it.” I explained everything in detail to everyone. And conceptually, I think it all made a lot of sense to people. Certainly, there’s tons of back and forth about whether something makes sense, or, “Wouldn’t I do this?” And there was a lot of adjusting on the fly because of our amount of shoot days, and people went with it. I think you could ask any of them, and all of them had fun on set. Brad, he’s coming for night shoots at 8 p.m. and leaving at 6 a.m. Four night shoots with him. And afterward, he’s seeing how much I carry as far as the weights of all the different things I do on the show. I grew up idolizing these people, all of them. And for them to just trust me and show me that love, I’ve never really had a feeling like that before.










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Monday, May 21, 2018


It was filmed just this Spring.  His hair looks shorter than when he did the Brietling ad in mid-April so it could have been a bit earlier -- mid or late March after he shaved his beard down to a goatee.  He still had the beard in early March when he showed up at Sean Penn's book party.

Deadpool 2 cameo





Thanks Pride&Joy



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Deadpool 2 pulled off a casting stunt even hard-core comic fans weren't expecting.
In the middle of the film, Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool assembles a superteam called X-Force, and its roster includes an invisible teammate known as The Vanisher. The audience never sees the character until a split-second shot in which he's electrocuted and is revealed to be played by none other than Brad Pitt.
Screenwriter Paul Wernick notes that in their original script, he and co-writers Rhett Reese and Reynolds didn't conceive of that moment including a celebrity cameo.
"We never saw Vanisher in the original script. He was always a mystery," Wernick tells Heat Vision. "When he got tangled up...we just thought, 'Oh my god, what a perfect idea for a celebrity cameo.' And then we thought, 'Who is the hardest get in Hollywood? Let's call him.'"
Reynolds reached out personally to Pitt, whose children loved the first Deadpool movie.
"He immediately said yes," recalls Wernick. "It was a pinch-me moment."
Director David Leitch had worked with Pitt for years as his stunt double on films like Ocean's Eleven and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The star had been considered to play the time-traveling mutant Cable before Josh Brolin came aboard. The Deadpool 2 team shot Pitt's cameo over two hours in Los Angeles during postproduction in the spring.
"It was a super small window, but once we had the yes, there was never a pressure — we had a whole window of post to get it done," says Leitch. "We shot the plates for it and really just needed to get him on a green screen for a short window of time."
All but the most dedicated comic book fans likely aren't familiar with Pitt's Deadpool 2 character, who actually is a bit different in the source material.
For one thing, the Vanisher doesn’t look anything like Pitt. For another, his power isn’t even invisibility in the comics: it’s teleportation. Despite all of this, Telford Porter — yes, Telly Porter, you read that right — is nonetheless a character with a storied place in comic book history.
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For the Deadpool 2 team, Pitt's involvement shows how far the franchise has come since the original. The film also pulled off brief cameos from Matt Damon and Alan Tudyk, who played the men Cable meets when he first travels back in time.
"The first Deadpool, we got a lot of noes. In this one, we got a lot of yeses," says Wernick. "So it was a real treat to have more toys to play with in the sandbox. The premium toy being the Brad Pitt doll."


[Spoilers for Deadpool 2 appear below.]

Of the original X-Force members in Deadpool 2, only three survived: Deadpool, Domino, and thanks to some time-traveling trickery, Peter. Bedlam (smashed into a bus), Zeitgeist (fed to a wood chipper), Shatterstar (turned into mush by helicopter blades), and Vanisher (electrocuted and fried to a crisp) did not fare so well, leaving an X-Force opening for Cable, played by superhero movie all-star Josh Brolin. He wasn’t the first actor to be rumored to portray the cybernetic, teddy bear-carrying mutant, though. That would be Brad Pitt, who has an extremely brief cameo in Deadpool 2 as… Vanisher.
How meta.
Pitt was “incredibly interested in the property,” according to director David Leitch (“One of the Guys Who Killed the Dog in John Wick“), but “things didn’t work out schedule-wise. He’s a fan, and we love him, and I think he would’ve made an amazing Cable.” The SE7EN star settled for a one-second appearance as Vanisher, who up to that point had been invisible, when he hits a telephone wire. Pitt agreed to the part because he’s friends with Leitch (his stunt double in Ocean’s Eleven and Fight Club) and because he and his kids love Deadpool.
“I think it was a love of Deadpool and sort of what that sort of global phenomenon that it was,” Leitch said. “And his kids loved it… When we reached out to him to be involved in the movie in some way, I think he was pretty excited to find someplace where he could help. When we landed on the Vanisher cameo, it seemed perfect for everybody.” He added that it only took “about four or five minutes” to shoot the scene, which was filmed in front of a green screen.
The cameo also continues Pitt’s war with Matt Damon, who recently appeared in Thor: Ragnarok as “Loki,” to see who can unexpectedly show up in the most random movies. Damon is forever in the lead, though, thanks to EuroTrip. And as it turns out, Damon (and Alan Tudyk) may have donned prosthetics to play one of the redneck characters that Cable encounters early in the film, but that detail has yet to be fully confirmed.

(Via Collider and Inverse)

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