“The funniest thing is Christina Applegate’s not in the scene!”
I just knew we were going to have a ball in there."
“I think a lot of the inspiration was just the excess.
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Initially, the duo thought they’d lay a hip-hop track under the scene, too.
“Jon and Scott basically said, The place is yours.
What do you want to do?
What would be your fantasy?'
Heaven for a bevy of hams like us,” she said.
“We just did pieces at a time.
I mean, we were a bunch of toddlers with all that sugar.
The highs and cranky crashes.”
The scene also required Hahn to chug a sticky-looking, chocolate-milk-and-booze concoction straight from the jug.
“[There were a] lot of jokes about how Leonardo DiCaprio inThe Revenanthad nothing on me.
I smelled like a can of mushroom soup.”
Added Lucas, “When [Hahn] kissed the employee, that was definitely in the script.
“I have such a soft spot for those ladies and shooting this scene felt like such a high.
“And the cashier!
Oh my god, best straight face you have ever seen,” she added.
He must have just looked at this clown working so hard.
It ain’t working, lady!”
Part of what made it a hit was that it appealed to moms and non-moms alike.
“So that was nice.”
They wrote one of the funniest scripts I had ever written and were still so crazy open to surprise.
…I’m so proud to be a part of this movie and that it connected in this way.
