But Val actually came in to read for the role, he had prepared some Elvis song and sang it like Elvis with all of those moves. He gave the character and the part a lot of thought and work even before he came in to audition. Val Kilmer: I wore baggy rockabilly pants. So baggy that I hid a large plastic juggling pin and brought it out at just the right time.
Jerry Zucker: He could sing, he could move, and he got the humor — he could deliver that line. And, of course, he looks beautiful on-screen. David Zucker: You know, he was troubled. And at the time, we thought he was difficult. Val Kilmer: I lived the boys and their comedy, but it took me 25 years to "enjoy" not knowing what is going to happen on a set.
My acting training is formal and I was fresh out of Hamlet-land and the Julliard School. The boys always wanted me to have more fun, but I wanted to be good and I took it all way too seriously. Jim Abrahams: I remember him struggling with the character, but I always thought he was a good kid. We hung out -- my wife and I kind of hung out with him a little bit socially when we were making the movie.
Jerry Zucker: On set, I remember him being a bit mercurial. Some days, he was incredibly fun to be with and we were laughing. And some days were more difficult. Val Kilmer: Message to young actors: When your bosses tell you to have more fun, believe them and do it. It doesn't happen that often! David Zucker: But, I will say in his defense, that was a tough character to play. So, we assume a lot of the responsibility.
Jerry Zucker: I feel bad for the movie, not for Val. Val Kilmer: It's kind of weirdly engaging that I'm clearly taking all the lunacy so seriously. He had no real problem. Ted Striker had an arc. We broke a lot of rules, but not in good ways. Jim Abrahams: Val was aware that Nick Rivers was kind of vacuous. And that was always a struggle for Val. But he was a true actor and was looking for something in that character to play.
He did salvage Nick Rivers, but that was always his struggle when filming. David Zucker: We thought we hit it out of the park, because it was so funny. We knew we had the jokes. But I think we learned a lesson. But it does drop off a little bit. You know what I love? We just took the sound out. It was like so stupid. Jim Abrahams: There are three in a row right there. Val jumps onto the chandelier and the chandelier comes down, in the background you can see the other chandelier go up.
So, it was connected. Jerry Zucker: Peter Cushing was very old at the time — and very nice about the whole thing. I think he kind of got it. David Zucker: We rehearsed for an entire day and then we shot for an entire day — probably 22 takes, or something like that. David Zucker: One problem we had was that the stunt dog — the highly expensive stunt dog.
Jim Abrahams: At the end, we had three trained dogs that the trainer brought to the set. Their fight continues in an elaborate underwater sequence that culminates in an underwater saloon. David Zucker: It was done in increments of 10 or 15 seconds. Every shot was long enough that everyone in it could hold their breath. David Zucker: It was in a big tank at a studio at Pinewood. There were divers off camera who would give the actors their oxygen right after the take.
Shot for shot, that scene builds from first going underwater and builds each shot into a little more elaborate reference to an old western bar fight — with a good punchline at the end. Val Kilmer: I got my [diving] certificate for that sequence and still enjoy diving today! David Zucker: The one joke that is my favorite, but it only works in front of a large audience. Jim Abrahams: That was kind of a bold joke. Acknowledging that you made a bad movie. And these kind of scenes were not adding to the reality of the movie.
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