The movie played to mostly empty theaters upon its release in December of 2007.

I’m like, “This is so weird.” So then the guy leaves and the set photographer says, “I can get you those pictures if you want.” And I’m like, “Yeah, cool. 8 Answers.

They would shout lines to me off camera occasionally or change the run a little bit. Andrews: Mike and Dan just holed up in a hotel room and just started writing tunes. Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers: Cox Across America. 0 0. Because it started that way, it was the easiest way to classify that movie. He loves his wife so much and she would come to set.

We were sending up the Brian Wilson–Van Dyke Parks kind of concept of composing. Jake Kasdan (co-writer-director): Judd’s a guy who likes to make a bunch of stuff and likes to call his friends that he likes working with. John C. Reilly (Dewey Cox): Anytime someone as talented as Judd and Jake approach you and say, “It’s gotta be you,” you know, that’s a really flattering thing.

I’m in the latex makeup that was very suffocating that was making me feel sort of claustrophobic. Or no, let’s just go for it.” So the first time we do it, we’re yelling and we go for the kissing part and both Kristen and I come in with such heat that we smash our teeth into each other. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory.

The opportunity to make an entire career’s worth of records over the course of a year was quite a challenge, but what a gas.

Kasdan: We took the opportunity to revisit [music biopics] and make a giant list of everything that we could include. And immediately like, “Oh my God! It’s a satire.” And that’s what you are able to do on a talk show. You can sign in to give your opinion on the answer.

[Through a publicist, Kristen Wiig declined to be interviewed for this story.].

And we wrote 35 in six months. Kasdan: We knew that we wanted it to be R-rated and to go for edgier kind of R-rated jokes.

And they’re each bursting with killer songs, performed with conviction and power. Kasdan: Everything’s completely changed in the last 12 years since then.

From infidelity, to orgies, to addiction, to over-the-top physically destructive behavior, to a Mel Brooks–like take on ethnic stereotypes, the movie had it all.

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Margo Martindale (Ma Cox): I had done a movie with [Reilly].

And there were moments where he was really frustrated. [Thirty-five] million dollars or whatever that we spent making it. What they conceived, however, was no ordinary spoof. He was the one managing that whole stable of writers. If you don’t have something real important to say it gets important with a wall of brass.

You got a capo? Michael Andrews (music director): He’s like, “We’re gonna do this thing and it’s gonna be a lot of work. But to give the illusion of nudity we were basically nude. Was Dewey Cox a real person?? People looked to him and he did a lot to just keep the crew upbeat. It’s a shame that when you do that kind of work, that great work, that it’s not seen or acknowledged. The cliché has long held that very few people bought the first Velvet Underground LP back in 1967; everyone who did, however, went on to form a band. Meadows: He shows so much commitment. And had all these problems with their families. Can someone explain the ending to basic instict?

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And writing the song instantly. And I remember being physically exhausted, like I’d run a marathon. They said, “In the ’50s-style stuff, we want you to play an upright bass because we just think the look would be better.

Dewey Cox’s songs (sung by Reilly) thrill, and they come in a giddy array of styles — from bopping country to free-associative Dylanisms, arch Pet Sounds grandiosity to sell-out ‘70s disco. He was thoughtful about it, but I think as he came to see it he totally fell in love with it and committed as hard as a person could.

Meadows: It’s the hardest work I ever did on a movie. It’s always nice to get a wall of brass. I remember walking down the steps with Eddie and Jake and the entire room just came to a hush.

And also, you just never see naked men in movies. What Cathy [Hahn] and I did, she was assisting me, is we divided these fittings up into periods and we also invited Lori [Guidroz], who did the hair, to join us in these fittings so we could put the appropriate wigs on and really get in the mood and the vibe and the character for these eras.

Bern: I basically dropped everything I was doing.

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Besser: When Judd gave us those roles, they gave us our instruments and teachers. RZA was in Funny People, Method Man was in Trainwreck, so I’ve gotta get Raekwon the Chef in my new movie. Reilly: I think one of the mind-fuck things about the movie is that it doesn’t look a comedy. They didn’t even know the songs.

That kept elevating to the point where we started laughing during one of the takes. And that’s what it took.

I know it sounds crazy but it’s actually a beautiful and sad thing. The films share a centerpiece sequence in which the legend-to-be gets dressed down by a skeptical industry insider after a limp audition … and then gets so mad that he wills himself into greatness right then and there, with a new song his band has never played. It’s the end of the movie.