Round up with a hot red leather dress, weed math, killing babies and 'Never Have I Ever'
Neighbors 2
Good luck to everyone running the #LondonMarathon from @ZacEfron & @Sethrogen. @LondonMarathonhttps://t.co/6hc5osQ4nZ
- UniversalPicturesUK (@universaluk) April 23, 2016
A trailer intro from Zac & Seth for Singapore here (non-embeddable)
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- #zacefron (@ZEupdates) April 22, 2016
Rose talks about Zac on WWHL here.
From BuzzFeed:
Zac Efron & Seth Rogen play 'Never Have I Ever'
To take us all on a trip down college memory lane, we decided to play a round of Never Have I Ever with the guys, in which they discuss getting caught naked in the front yard and overhearing their neighbors having sex. Hereās what went down.
Thrown a house party while your parents were out of town?
Seth: I have done that.
Zac: I have not done that.
Seth: Iāve for sure done that. I did it the night Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfieldās ear.
Zac: Dope. Wish I was there.
Seth: Yeah, It was in like 1997 or something.
Zac: That was a long time ago.
Accidentally broken something at someoneās house party?
Zac: Oh, for sure. Thatās impossible.
Seth: I actually donāt think Iāve ever done that.
Zac: Iāve, like, what havenāt I broken?! All kinds of things.
Given someone a fake phone number?
Seth: Iāve never done that. Actually, no, I have done that.
Zac: Yeah, all the time.
Seth: For sure. Iāve done it a few times, actually. I gave Zac a fake phone number.
Zac: He wasnāt responding to any of my texts. [To Seth] Do I have your real phone number?
Seth: No, not yet. I refuse to give it to you.
Zac: Still working on it.
Wanted to be in a fraternity?
Seth: I would wanna be, sure. Guilty. I would wanna be in a fraternity.
Zac: I think Iād want some aspects of it.
Seth: Yeah! Itād be fun to live in a big gross house and get drunk all day.
Zac: Yeah, from what I hear itās really, really fun. Living vicariously through this movie, it seems fun.
Seth: Yeah! What we portray in the movie seems fun.
Zac: Yeah, exactly.
Saw or overheard my neighbor having sex?
Seth: Oh, I have for sure.
Zac: Yeah, for sure. Guilty. Guilty as charged.
Seth: Not in a long time.
Zac: You havenāt stayed in a hotel in the past [few months]?
Seth: I havenāt heard sex. But I used to live next to a guy who would have a lot of sex. Whereas I did not. Stark contrast.
Zac: I donāt wanna elaborate too much, butā¦
Seth: But youāve heard it?
Zac: Yeah, for sure. Unless somebody is getting murdered?
Seth: Yeah, unless itās a murder. I always assume itās a murder.
Had a drink thrown in my face Real Housewives-style?
Zac: What style do the Housewives throw like?
Seth: I donāt think Iāve ever had, like, an angered drink thrown in my [face]. Iāve had comedic drinks thrown in my face. Once a girl flicked a cigarette in my face - also bad. Probably worse than having a drink thrown in my face.
Zac: Thatās potentially worse. I donāt think itās happened to me either. Pretty sure.
Plotted a prank on someone in my neighborhood?
Seth: I have, for sure.
Zac: Yeah, Iāve definitely done that. Going toilet papering. Pretty standard.
Seth: We had a neighbor we used to hate - I would put cheeseburgers through his mail slot.
Zac: Thatās pretty good.
Thatās actually nice.
Seth: I know, Iād be thrilled if I woke up to cheeseburgers in my front door.
Zac: I think I would go to other peopleās neighborhoods and mess with their neighbors.
Thrown a party thatās gotten majorly out of control?
Seth: Yes, Iāve thrown a few parties that have gotten majorly out of control. Not for a while.
Zac: Yes.
Seth: One time I threw a party and I heard someone go, āHoly shit, Seth Rogenās here.ā And I was like, ah, man.
Zac: [laughs] This is my house!
Seth: Not what you wanna hear in your own house. Thatās bad. Thatās a big party.
Gotten caught by your neighbor walking around in your backyard half naked?
Seth: I think I have.
Zac: I ran out [of the house] - I rescued a dog and he was a puppy, and he got away, but he knew not to go a certain way, and I, like, just ran out into the yard to go save him so he wouldnāt go into the street, just in my underwear. I had just woken up. And, like, snagged him and was like, no, donāt run away! And I looked up and my neighbor and his whole family were like, āMorning.ā And Iām like, āHeeey. Uhh, this is awkward.ā Lots of kids.
Seth: Thereās a nice moral to that story.
Zac: The dogās great, by the way, heās good.
Seth: I canāt remember my [story]. That one just took my breath away.
Crashed a fraternity or sorority party?
Zac: I donāt know if I went to a legit one, but a few of my friends were in fraternities.
Seth: Yeah, I donāt think Iāve ever crashed one of those parties.
Zac: Yeah, I think I just hung out with my buddies - they did, like, a lot of improv at my friendās frat at UCLA. So Iād go kick it with them a lot.
Seth: Really? Thatās fun.
Zac: I did one of their improv shows one time.
Seth: Thatās the one frat Iād be welcome in. The improv frat.
Zac: Oh, they would love you.
Had an annoying neighbor whoās constantly doing construction on their house?
Seth: Me, yeah. I still have the same guy, from the first movie. When I was promoting the first movie, I had a neighbor who was doing it. Itās the same guy whoās doing it! Itās been three years. Itās our three-year anniversary coming up in November, actually. Iām getting him a card. He emailed me like eight months ago saying it was gonna be done, and I was like, I honestly hope it lasts three years just so I can, like, rub it in your face when it happens. And weāre like three weeks away from it being a full three years of construction. My friendās baby was born when he started building the house, and she, like, talks and walks now. Itās crazy.
Snuck into a neighbors pool or backyard when they were out of town?
Seth: No, I havenāt done that. My neighbor doesnāt have a pool.
Zac: No. None of my neighbors had pools growing up.
Seth: Itād be great if they did.
Zac: There was, like, cows. A lot of dogs that would potentially hurt you.
Won a dance battle?
Seth: Iāve never actually won a dance battle.
Zac: I donāt know who ranks these things. At some point I jump in and everyone gets excitedā¦
Seth: You win.
Zac: Yeah, I guess I won.
Seth: Youāre gonna win the dance battle.
Zac: But itās never like Step Up.
Seth: Thereās never really a winner.
Zac: Itās not like Iām onstageā¦
Seth: Itās not like a definitive moment where you win.
Zac: Yeah, like standing on my hands or spinning.
Seth: And everyoneās like, āWhoaa.ā And the other team just likeā¦
Zac: Clapping. And you end with, like, the *stomps*.
Seth: Yeah, and everyone just knows.
Zac: That you won. Yeah, thatās it.
Ducked for cover when someone rang the doorbell?
Seth: Oh, I do that a lot. I did that like two days ago.
Zac: Yeah.
Seth: Yeah, I do it every time the doorbell rings.
Zac: Yeah, my door is clear, itās glass.
Seth: Yeah, so they can see?
Zac: Yeah, so I have to, like, really peek around.
Had a crush on or hit on a neighbor?
Seth: I didnāt have a crush on him, but again, my neighbor who fucked a lot seemed like, if that was my thing, he would be a great dude to go after. āCause he seemed to have some prowess in that department. So he wasnāt my orientation, but if he was, I wouldāve gone for him, ācause he fucked like a lunatic. And he was an acting coach, so I could benefit in many ways from the relationship.
Zac: I donāt think I have.
The source has part of the interview in video form and a lot more gifs of it.
From EW:
Neighbors 2 director Nicholas Stoller on the fine art of comedy sequels
āThere are so few good comedy sequels,ā says Nicholas Stoller, director of the biggest comedy sequel of 2016. Next monthās Neighbors 2: Sorority Row pairs the stars of 2014ās smash-hit comedy against newer, younger, female-er Greek System maniacs. Movie history is littered with disappointing comedy follow-ups: Caddyshack 2, Men in Black 2, untold American Pies. āThe only one in recent memory thatās good is 22 Jump Street,ā Stoller says. āItās a hard genre.ā The director and his collaborators came up with some doās and donāts for sequelizing the funny.
1. More isnāt better.
āEarly on we were like: āWe donāt want it to be bigger.ā Thatās a mistake people make. It needs to be the exact same size as the first movie. And we donāt want to do what other famous comedies have done, which is just repeat the story exactly the same.ā
2. Take time to consider every possibility - and then throw most of them out.
āEvery iteration of this script existed as some point. There was a version where another frat moved in. There was a version where the sorority was there and then got kicked out, and then a frat took over and it was even worse. We flirted with a version where it was an older couple, a swinger couple. Terrible ideas! Theyāre not in the movie for a reason. We had a version of the movie that we table-read with, that was basically [Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne] trying to prevent the first movie from happening, trying to placate the sorority. Which made it boring, because nothingās happening, theyāre never fighting.ā
3. The story should be different, but the themes should be the same.
āIt was important to me to tell a different emotional storyā¦ with the same thematics as we had in the first movie. It would make no sense if [Rogen and Byrne] are dealing with new parenting. Itās now about the next stage of parenting, and the thing theyāre dealing with in this movie is: āAre we bad parentsā? We literally had to study the first movie, and figure out what it was about.ā
4. Cut out the fan service.
āWe had a lot of references to the first movie, and people did not give a sh-. They didnāt laugh. They didnāt remember it. Of course they didnāt remember it! Most people havenāt been thinking of the first movie. We loved the references to the first movie, and we cut them all out, every single one of them.ā
5. When in doubt, think Toy Story.
āThe Toy Story movies are all about, āYouāre kidās getting too old for you!ā And the theme of this is being afraid of the next stage of life. If the first Neighbors is dumb, gross, R-rated Toy Story, this is dumb, gross, R-rated Toy Story 2.ā
The Los Angeles premiere will be held on May 16, 2016 at the Regency Village Theatre.
Mike and Dave
No Zac but lots of Zac talk:
Dirty Grandpa
Misc
What an amazing, busy week. Beast mode filming #Baywatch Monday thru Friday night: Late wrap. str8 from set to the plane that took me all the way from GA to LA to do press/interviews for two moviesā¦kicked it off with a full day of international press for #neighbors2 and ended up at the @mtv #movieawards (where my partner in crime was getting no rest prepping to crush the show). We did another full day of interviews and then straight to the plane and into a car that took me right to set where DJ and I had breakfast before diving right into a day full of jet ski water stunts with the rest of the Baywatch family.
WE ARE #teamnosleep š #mikeanddaveneedweddingdates @andybovine #teamsomeonepleasegivemeadonut @therock
Click to viewGood luck to everyone running the #LondonMarathon from @ZacEfron & @Sethrogen. @LondonMarathonhttps://t.co/6hc5osQ4nZ
- UniversalPicturesUK (@universaluk) April 23, 2016
A trailer intro from Zac & Seth for Singapore here (non-embeddable)
šø @NeighborsMovie #snapchat pic.twitter.com/L9KRXILqQc
- #zacefron (@ZEupdates) April 22, 2016
Rose talks about Zac on WWHL here.
From BuzzFeed:
Zac Efron & Seth Rogen play 'Never Have I Ever'
To take us all on a trip down college memory lane, we decided to play a round of Never Have I Ever with the guys, in which they discuss getting caught naked in the front yard and overhearing their neighbors having sex. Hereās what went down.
Thrown a house party while your parents were out of town?
Seth: I have done that.
Zac: I have not done that.
Seth: Iāve for sure done that. I did it the night Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfieldās ear.
Zac: Dope. Wish I was there.
Seth: Yeah, It was in like 1997 or something.
Zac: That was a long time ago.
Accidentally broken something at someoneās house party?
Zac: Oh, for sure. Thatās impossible.
Seth: I actually donāt think Iāve ever done that.
Zac: Iāve, like, what havenāt I broken?! All kinds of things.
Given someone a fake phone number?
Seth: Iāve never done that. Actually, no, I have done that.
Zac: Yeah, all the time.
Seth: For sure. Iāve done it a few times, actually. I gave Zac a fake phone number.
Zac: He wasnāt responding to any of my texts. [To Seth] Do I have your real phone number?
Seth: No, not yet. I refuse to give it to you.
Zac: Still working on it.
Wanted to be in a fraternity?
Seth: I would wanna be, sure. Guilty. I would wanna be in a fraternity.
Zac: I think Iād want some aspects of it.
Seth: Yeah! Itād be fun to live in a big gross house and get drunk all day.
Zac: Yeah, from what I hear itās really, really fun. Living vicariously through this movie, it seems fun.
Seth: Yeah! What we portray in the movie seems fun.
Zac: Yeah, exactly.
Saw or overheard my neighbor having sex?
Seth: Oh, I have for sure.
Zac: Yeah, for sure. Guilty. Guilty as charged.
Seth: Not in a long time.
Zac: You havenāt stayed in a hotel in the past [few months]?
Seth: I havenāt heard sex. But I used to live next to a guy who would have a lot of sex. Whereas I did not. Stark contrast.
Zac: I donāt wanna elaborate too much, butā¦
Seth: But youāve heard it?
Zac: Yeah, for sure. Unless somebody is getting murdered?
Seth: Yeah, unless itās a murder. I always assume itās a murder.
Had a drink thrown in my face Real Housewives-style?
Zac: What style do the Housewives throw like?
Seth: I donāt think Iāve ever had, like, an angered drink thrown in my [face]. Iāve had comedic drinks thrown in my face. Once a girl flicked a cigarette in my face - also bad. Probably worse than having a drink thrown in my face.
Zac: Thatās potentially worse. I donāt think itās happened to me either. Pretty sure.
Plotted a prank on someone in my neighborhood?
Seth: I have, for sure.
Zac: Yeah, Iāve definitely done that. Going toilet papering. Pretty standard.
Seth: We had a neighbor we used to hate - I would put cheeseburgers through his mail slot.
Zac: Thatās pretty good.
Thatās actually nice.
Seth: I know, Iād be thrilled if I woke up to cheeseburgers in my front door.
Zac: I think I would go to other peopleās neighborhoods and mess with their neighbors.
Thrown a party thatās gotten majorly out of control?
Seth: Yes, Iāve thrown a few parties that have gotten majorly out of control. Not for a while.
Zac: Yes.
Seth: One time I threw a party and I heard someone go, āHoly shit, Seth Rogenās here.ā And I was like, ah, man.
Zac: [laughs] This is my house!
Seth: Not what you wanna hear in your own house. Thatās bad. Thatās a big party.
Gotten caught by your neighbor walking around in your backyard half naked?
Seth: I think I have.
Zac: I ran out [of the house] - I rescued a dog and he was a puppy, and he got away, but he knew not to go a certain way, and I, like, just ran out into the yard to go save him so he wouldnāt go into the street, just in my underwear. I had just woken up. And, like, snagged him and was like, no, donāt run away! And I looked up and my neighbor and his whole family were like, āMorning.ā And Iām like, āHeeey. Uhh, this is awkward.ā Lots of kids.
Seth: Thereās a nice moral to that story.
Zac: The dogās great, by the way, heās good.
Seth: I canāt remember my [story]. That one just took my breath away.
Crashed a fraternity or sorority party?
Zac: I donāt know if I went to a legit one, but a few of my friends were in fraternities.
Seth: Yeah, I donāt think Iāve ever crashed one of those parties.
Zac: Yeah, I think I just hung out with my buddies - they did, like, a lot of improv at my friendās frat at UCLA. So Iād go kick it with them a lot.
Seth: Really? Thatās fun.
Zac: I did one of their improv shows one time.
Seth: Thatās the one frat Iād be welcome in. The improv frat.
Zac: Oh, they would love you.
Had an annoying neighbor whoās constantly doing construction on their house?
Seth: Me, yeah. I still have the same guy, from the first movie. When I was promoting the first movie, I had a neighbor who was doing it. Itās the same guy whoās doing it! Itās been three years. Itās our three-year anniversary coming up in November, actually. Iām getting him a card. He emailed me like eight months ago saying it was gonna be done, and I was like, I honestly hope it lasts three years just so I can, like, rub it in your face when it happens. And weāre like three weeks away from it being a full three years of construction. My friendās baby was born when he started building the house, and she, like, talks and walks now. Itās crazy.
Snuck into a neighbors pool or backyard when they were out of town?
Seth: No, I havenāt done that. My neighbor doesnāt have a pool.
Zac: No. None of my neighbors had pools growing up.
Seth: Itād be great if they did.
Zac: There was, like, cows. A lot of dogs that would potentially hurt you.
Won a dance battle?
Seth: Iāve never actually won a dance battle.
Zac: I donāt know who ranks these things. At some point I jump in and everyone gets excitedā¦
Seth: You win.
Zac: Yeah, I guess I won.
Seth: Youāre gonna win the dance battle.
Zac: But itās never like Step Up.
Seth: Thereās never really a winner.
Zac: Itās not like Iām onstageā¦
Seth: Itās not like a definitive moment where you win.
Zac: Yeah, like standing on my hands or spinning.
Seth: And everyoneās like, āWhoaa.ā And the other team just likeā¦
Zac: Clapping. And you end with, like, the *stomps*.
Seth: Yeah, and everyone just knows.
Zac: That you won. Yeah, thatās it.
Ducked for cover when someone rang the doorbell?
Seth: Oh, I do that a lot. I did that like two days ago.
Zac: Yeah.
Seth: Yeah, I do it every time the doorbell rings.
Zac: Yeah, my door is clear, itās glass.
Seth: Yeah, so they can see?
Zac: Yeah, so I have to, like, really peek around.
Had a crush on or hit on a neighbor?
Seth: I didnāt have a crush on him, but again, my neighbor who fucked a lot seemed like, if that was my thing, he would be a great dude to go after. āCause he seemed to have some prowess in that department. So he wasnāt my orientation, but if he was, I wouldāve gone for him, ācause he fucked like a lunatic. And he was an acting coach, so I could benefit in many ways from the relationship.
Zac: I donāt think I have.
The source has part of the interview in video form and a lot more gifs of it.
From EW:
Neighbors 2 director Nicholas Stoller on the fine art of comedy sequels
āThere are so few good comedy sequels,ā says Nicholas Stoller, director of the biggest comedy sequel of 2016. Next monthās Neighbors 2: Sorority Row pairs the stars of 2014ās smash-hit comedy against newer, younger, female-er Greek System maniacs. Movie history is littered with disappointing comedy follow-ups: Caddyshack 2, Men in Black 2, untold American Pies. āThe only one in recent memory thatās good is 22 Jump Street,ā Stoller says. āItās a hard genre.ā The director and his collaborators came up with some doās and donāts for sequelizing the funny.
1. More isnāt better.
āEarly on we were like: āWe donāt want it to be bigger.ā Thatās a mistake people make. It needs to be the exact same size as the first movie. And we donāt want to do what other famous comedies have done, which is just repeat the story exactly the same.ā
2. Take time to consider every possibility - and then throw most of them out.
āEvery iteration of this script existed as some point. There was a version where another frat moved in. There was a version where the sorority was there and then got kicked out, and then a frat took over and it was even worse. We flirted with a version where it was an older couple, a swinger couple. Terrible ideas! Theyāre not in the movie for a reason. We had a version of the movie that we table-read with, that was basically [Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne] trying to prevent the first movie from happening, trying to placate the sorority. Which made it boring, because nothingās happening, theyāre never fighting.ā
3. The story should be different, but the themes should be the same.
āIt was important to me to tell a different emotional storyā¦ with the same thematics as we had in the first movie. It would make no sense if [Rogen and Byrne] are dealing with new parenting. Itās now about the next stage of parenting, and the thing theyāre dealing with in this movie is: āAre we bad parentsā? We literally had to study the first movie, and figure out what it was about.ā
4. Cut out the fan service.
āWe had a lot of references to the first movie, and people did not give a sh-. They didnāt laugh. They didnāt remember it. Of course they didnāt remember it! Most people havenāt been thinking of the first movie. We loved the references to the first movie, and we cut them all out, every single one of them.ā
5. When in doubt, think Toy Story.
āThe Toy Story movies are all about, āYouāre kidās getting too old for you!ā And the theme of this is being afraid of the next stage of life. If the first Neighbors is dumb, gross, R-rated Toy Story, this is dumb, gross, R-rated Toy Story 2.ā
The Los Angeles premiere will be held on May 16, 2016 at the Regency Village Theatre.
Mike and Dave
No Zac but lots of Zac talk:
Dirty Grandpa
Misc
What an amazing, busy week. Beast mode filming #Baywatch Monday thru Friday night: Late wrap. str8 from set to the plane that took me all the way from GA to LA to do press/interviews for two moviesā¦kicked it off with a full day of international press for #neighbors2 and ended up at the @mtv #movieawards (where my partner in crime was getting no rest prepping to crush the show). We did another full day of interviews and then straight to the plane and into a car that took me right to set where DJ and I had breakfast before diving right into a day full of jet ski water stunts with the rest of the Baywatch family.
WE ARE #teamnosleep š #mikeanddaveneedweddingdates @andybovine #teamsomeonepleasegivemeadonut @therock