"40 Dates & 40 Nights" Press Junket | The Latest With Maya

 A conversation with star Joel Courtney and director Andy Delaney.❤️ See "40 Dates & 40 Nights" in theaters TODAY, and watch it On Demand starting June 30th!


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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's the latest It's the latest.

SPEAKER_01 0:11

Hey. Yeah, I so I'm Maya from The Latest with Maya. Um, and I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_03 0:22

Oh, thank you. It's great to meet you. Good to see you.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

You too. Um so what do you hope people walk away with after watching 4D dates and 4D nights?

SPEAKER_02 0:35

Wow. Joel is a good thing. That's a good question. Over to you, Joel.

SPEAKER_03 0:39

Uh, you know, one of the things that I think is uh people are gonna walk away with is the the feeling that uh love is uh possible. Finding love is possible. Uh it's not necessarily an easy or straightforward thing to do, especially in today's world where uh you know dating apps are rampant and you know you can you can just like find so many people that sometimes a single interaction doesn't feel as like important as maybe it used to back in the day. Um and it you know love is worth fighting for, love is worth pursuing, and um you just uh you gotta stick with it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um so were there any scenes that were particularly challenging to film?

SPEAKER_02 1:41

Well, we did have a stunt scene, didn't we, Joel? We did have a little bit of a stunt scene, yes. We had a stunt scene where Joel bravely fell over a toolcase, toolbox, and we had to make that work. That was the low lowest key stunt I think I've ever witnessed. We were four people in a bedroom trying to stumble over a toolkit. So it was, but it was really fun, and the choreography choreography of it was it was really interesting because it was all done in a really small space, and yet it had to be funny and realistic and end up in a kind of romantic moment. And so that was fun. I seem to remember. That was fun, you know. Not to mention I love doing my own stunts. Well, that was great. He does. So that was a good one. That was a good one. That was a fun one.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um, so do you have a favorite scene from the movie?

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Oh man. Uh a favorite scene from the movie. I would say, um goodness. You know, that's it's there's so many good ones. Uh, if I had to pick one, I would say uh there is a really there's a really fun and playful scene uh between Bailey and I uh in her kitchen where uh Andy had this really cool idea to just have it as a locked-off waner, and we just get to like live in the kitchen and have a conversation, kind of talking over each other and moving around. We just found a really fun rhythm and flow blocking that. And um I'm a sucker for a good like waner. Uh and so I I'd say that was probably one of the most fun.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

I I'm really pleased you picked up on that, Joel, because oh my goodness, yes. Yeah, because we talked about this idea where when people are comfortable with each other, yeah, they kind of move around each other in a way that is very fluid. And you know when somebody needs their toast and you pass the toast or the butter without looking at them, and you get out of the way and they grab a and so we we worked on the kind of choreography of making toast and coffee, yeah. Okay, and and as Joel said, I was just like, I just want to start way back, and we just come in slowly on a dolly, and it was like a piece of dance, and we all knew when we smashed it, it was just like that's the one that was it, that was it, yeah. And so I agree with you. That was kind of um our nod to pure cinema, you know. You could have done that a silent movie, you know. So yeah, that was that was great.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Oh, I love that, that's so fun. Um, so were there um any scenes that you had to do multiple takes and would make it on a blooper reel?

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Oh goodness. Oh, I mean, okay, let me think. Joel, have you got any? I've got a couple, I think.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

I'd say you go for it, because a lot of like the scenes that I was in, it wasn't necessarily like like laughing rolling comedy.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Okay, I'm gonna pull you up there, Joel, because you're forgetting the pharmacy. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Okay, oh my goodness, how did I forget about this?

SPEAKER_02 5:04

We had this scene in a pharmacy, we had this scene in a pharmacy where Bailey's characters go to get some medicine, and we'll give it all away, but and Joel's character is there as a witness, and it's just the most excruciatingly funny enactment of going out slightly with a hangover to get something maybe slightly embarrassing and being completely humiliated in public. And we had these amazing day players come in, one of whom Jeremy Culhane is now a regular on Saturday Night Live. And these guys, and the woman who played the pharmacy manager, all of these characters that uh Joel and Bailey interacted with, all of these actors were just spectacular.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

So good. And I I was having the hardest time not laughing. Andy was like, Joel, you're grinning, let's go again.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

This is totally and I and you guys told me this. When I'm excited, I tend to kind of stamp my feet like a little toddler running. I was trying so hard not to laugh. I was the only way to not laugh was to not breathe, which then proved a problem. And I gave I I don't think I gave any notes. There was just let's go. Can we just shoot this for a just keep having fun with it? So good. So that was there's blue, there's like hours of just mainly people just breaking up laughing, and you can hear the crew, yeah, and the boom guy shaking, and yeah, it was fantastic. Fantastic. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Oh, I love that. Yeah, um, so what uh genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Wow, these are deep questions, Mars. These are great questions, Maya.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Um thank you.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Wow, okay. I've got one because I've got more life than you. So, and in terms of a genre, that it's like a fool's progress, you know, like where the the the guy kind of stumbles around, makes it a kind of you know, that kind of story of like not particularly a hero's journey, all right? Just a kind of one of those very English Mr. Bean. Let's say that. Um it's Mr. Bean. There you go. Mr. Bean is a film director.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

That is so funny. Mr. Bean is directing your life story, that's so funny. Um, well, I'm crazy about my wife, uh, so I'm definitely in the romantic somewhere world. Um, whether it's drama or comedy, it just depends on what's what phase of life or like what season we're in. But um, yeah, I'm I'm a very lucky man with with my wife, so romantic for sure.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Oh, I love that. I would like to see those movies.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Um, well, thank you so much for taking that time to speak with me. I love talking with you both.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

Yeah, Maya, this was awesome. Great questions. Love it.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Great questions, Maya. Yeah, you threw us off there, babe. We were I'm, you know, wow, what John is my movie? Um, I need to go and have a proper think about. Good, good, unique questions. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Yeah. Oh, thank you so much. And I can't wait for everyone to see this movie.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Yeah, yeah. It's uh we're looking forward to that. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Yeah. So thank you so much again.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Thank you, Maya. Bye bye. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Bye.