Anchorman Continued

Anchorman Continued.......

Q: You've never experienced sexism?
Applegate: I don't find it. The casting couch thing is a normal thing, right? I mean; that's what we do to get jobs.
McKay: Christina, what were some of the non-regional words you'd say to crack us up. You'd do the non-regional pronunciations.
Applegate: Fah-word.
McKay: And you'd say Pin-Da.
Applegate: Pin-da. And Fah-word.
McKay: That would make us laugh.
Applegate: Yeah, I mean, I had to sleep with Adam to get this job. But that's not sexism. I think that's just the way the biz goes.
Koechner: That's not sexism. We all did it.
McKay: It's about tenderness and understanding. That's what it's all about. Rudd: Earning your keep is what I always call it.
Ferrell: And being filmed. And you literally just sleep with Adam. There's no contact. You just lie in bed with him.
McKay: I caress you hair and sing German Children songs to you. And I feed everyone cups of honey. And I call them my little boish-doits. And then I cleaned their feet in the morning. There's nothing creepy about it. It's just that.
Ferrell: He'll let you listen to your I-Pod while it happens.

Q: How did you choose San Diego as the location for your news station?
McKay: Originally, it was set in Philadelphia. That was our first choice. I grew up outside of Philadelphia. Those are the anchormen that I remember. Then we went over to Portland. We thought Portland would be good, because we were starting to go West Coast. But Portland turned out not to be a good double for Vancouver. Then we thought, wait a minute. San Diego's perfect. Because we wanted a mid-market; sort of big, but not too big. Plus Will is almost a disturbingly big Padres fan. That really made it nice for him. And then, I'm really good friends with Doug Fluty. So, it was a great match, and it was a mid-level market.

(A tape stops)
Applegate: Your tape stopped.

Q: That's okay.

Applegate: Oh, so you don't want to tape what we're saying? I don't know. I could say something brilliant. This could be the one.

Q: Paul, what's it like working on something like this, where a lot of it's improvised, compared to working on something like The Shape of Things, where you're performing the same stage play every night?
Rudd: Well, with this one, because there was so much improvisation, it was really fresh. And fun. When I was doing Shape of Things, which I'd done as a play, it was just so tired by the time we rolled tape.
Q: Christina, what's your next project?
Applegate: Right now, I'm going to New York to star in Sweet Charity.

Q: How are you preparing for that?
Ferrell: Be sure you stretch.
Applegate: Yeah. I am. This is really difficult, and absolutely insane to do. But I'm just training right now.

Q: Do you think you'll work with your husband anytime in the future?
Applegate: Maybe. You know? I love my husband. I want to keep my relationship. I'm afraid if we did a movie together, that might not happen. As we've seen with other couples.

Q: What's next for the rest of you?
Koechner: I'm going to do Sweet Charity on Broadway for about nine weeks. (There is a long silence)
Ferrell: No one else has anything? God, what a sad answer that was.
McKay: The whole group is not doing well.
Ferrell: Nothing.
Applegate: What the hey? Summer Vay-Kay.
Ferrell: I'm working on Bewitched. What are you doing?
McKay: Bewitched. Will and I are actually working on our next project. Talladega Nights, about racecar drivers.
Rudd: I'm actually going to go see Christina in Sweet Charity somewhere in the course of nine months.
McKay: That's it. Good-bye.

ANCHORMAN OPENS IN OCTOBER.

- Paul Fischer




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