Life imitated artwork when Vince Vaughn was filming “Wedding Crashers.”
In honor of the movie’s twentieth anniversary, cinematographer Julio Macat is recalling the second on set when he needed to scold Vaughn, 55 — for extreme partying.
“I gave him sh-t one day because he was partying a little too hard,” Macat, 68, stated. “He showed up one day and you know, I’ve seen one bag under the eye, I’ve seen two bags under the eye.”
“So first time I saw three bags under somebody’s eye and I go, ‘Vince, you got to get some sleep man. This is insane!’” Macat recounted.
“He got mad at me,” Macat stated about Vaughn. “Like, ‘Oh, you know, you do your f–ing thing.’”
Nevertheless, their banter “was all in good fun,” Macat famous.
“I think he’s a really good guy,” the cinematographer added. “We call each other cousins.”
Within the 2005 comedy directed by David Dobkin, Vaughn and Owen Wilson play divorce mediators who crash weddings to fulfill and seduce ladies.
Macat was blown away by Vaughn and Wilson’s improv throughout capturing.
“To do improvisation and to do that kind of acting on each other, there’s very few actors who can do that successfully,” Macat acknowledged. “Improv is really tough. Any actor will tell you that to do it and not be dragging on or with uncomfortable pauses is a real trick. And these guys were masters at it.”
“Vince and Owen had such a chemistry about them. And they were so on top of each other in a really good way that what we found out pretty soon was that the rehearsal was the best take,” he revealed. “And then you keep trying to chase that to try to grab the same moments and the same moments of freshness.”
Macat additionally spoke extremely about his expertise working with the movie’s different well-known stars.
“Bradley Cooper was really trying. It was like if he was playing tennis, he was trying to hit as hard as the guys,” Macat stated about Cooper, who had a supporting function as Sack Lodge.
“He was really approachable and really appreciative whenever we came up with a shot for him,” Macat defined. “He was like, ‘Oh, great, great. Yeah.’ He raised his game.”
“Rachel McAdams was awesome,” Macat added in regards to the Oscar nominee, who performed Claire Cleary. “She was really in tune what she was trying to do.”
The David Dobkin-directed comedy additionally featured Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Isla Fisher and Keir O’Donnell.
In Aug. 2024, Vaughn — who has additionally starred in raunchy movies equivalent to “Old School” and “Couples Retreat” — defined why he thinks R-rated comedies are actually on life help.
“They just overthink it,” he stated of Hollywood throughout a “Hot Ones” look. “And it’s like, it’s crazy, you get these rules, like, if you did geometry, and you said 87 degrees was a right angle, then all your answers are messed up, instead of 90 degrees. So there became some idea or concept, like, they would say something like, ‘You have to have an IP.’”
Vaughn cited the board sport Battleship for instance of IP that grew to become a “vehicle for storytelling” as a consequence of its recognizable title.
“The people in charge don’t want to get fired … so than they’re looking to do something great, so they want to kind of follow a set of rules that somehow get set in stone, that don’t really translate,” he went on. “But as long as they follow them, they’re not going to lose their job because they can say, ’Well, look, I made a movie off the board game ‘Payday,’ so even though the movie didn’t work, you can’t let me go, right?’”
