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Few make sense of dopes and douchebags like Danny McBride.
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Fred then does a demonstration, where he attempts to break several bricks with his elbows.
He doesnt break all of them.
Comedically, the entire movie is summed up in that opening scene.
We felt like that was a good way to sort of kick the audience into this world.
Eastbound & Down: Kenny Powers (McBride) narrates over footage of his ascent and decline.
He then finds himself signing up to become a substitute teacher.
When someone recognizes him, he punches him in the face.
That also is the whole entire show wrapped up into the opening.
He is joined by his vice-principals: Neal Gamby (McBride) and Lee Russell (Walton Goggins).
Its Lee who asks who will be taking over as principal, which Gamby finds insensitive.
Principal Welles says he doesnt care and asks them to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lee and Gamby fight like children behind his back.
Jesse and Kelvin fight over each others baptizing style.
Eli stops a man from taking photos.
Then, all of the sudden, the waves turn on.
All hell breaks loose.
I wanted to drop into a heightened situation with these characters to see the scope of what they do.
I saw a mass baptism in China in a wave pool on YouTube.
I was like,This seems like a plot that the Gemstones would have.
These people go around the world doing all this crazy stuff.
This was a send-off for mom, who always wanted to do this.
Theyre trying, and its obvious that its not working.
Originally this scene was in the middle of the day.
They were like, We cant do it while the park is open.
I was like, Well, damn.
Well, whens the park not open?
They were like, We close every day from six to nine in the morning.
I saw an interview with Greta Gerwig talking aboutFrances Ha.I loved the style of that movie.
I thought for sure they improved that whole movie.
Their performances in it were awesome.
I remember seeing that interview and being blown away that it was all planned out.
I was like,Thats what I want to do.
What I liked about improv was it felt rough and loose and real.
Weirdly, yeah,Frances Hais an influence on what Im doing.
