Anyone who has ever seenForgetting Sarah Marshallwill never forget the opening scene.
But that wasn’t always the plan.
“I was like, ‘I don’t think you’re free to do that.’
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I literally just didn’t think you could do it.
I was like, ‘Oh, I guess you’re free to do that.'”
But it just slowed down the scene so we ended up not doing that."
And still, that experience didn’t make it any easier on Segel when it came to filming.
“So he had set up a private room where he got his wiener looking normal.
I was like, ‘J, you might put your pants on now.'”
Segel was required to stay naked for a while, considering all the different angles Stoller wanted to film.
“I had no idea what the audience would put up with,” admits the director.
There’s maybe like a second and a half of wiener in the entire movie.
We did test screenings where there was more of it and people just didn’t want it.
We discovered that less is more when you’re shooting wiener.
I was like, ‘You wrote this, bro!
You didn’t need to write it if you didn’t want to do it.'"
Cracks Bell, “Everybody had a d— on their shirt that day.”
