Foam pastry suit improves Sex Drive
EDMONTON (CUP) — Josh Zuckerman and Amanda Crew sound like two kids in a confectionery store. The co-stars of Sex Drive chatter and ramble exuberantly almost nonstop, only ceasing when one of them cracks their partner up.
Both actors were excited to talk about their new film — especially about the process of Zuckerman's own transformation into a giant donut.
“The first time I had any encounter with the donut was probably a month or two before we started shooting. I don't know where it was, some factory, where there was paint fumes and all these monster heads from film history,” Zuckerman said.
“They were measuring my arms, legs, inseam, and my neck, and talking about all the different gadgets they wanted on it — the movable mouth and the movable headpiece so that [my] head could stick out. At that point, I really had no conception of what it was going to look like. I think I can say with certainty that everyone was extremely pleased with the way it turned out. I'd have to wear this spandex green suit underneath.”
Crew chimed in: “Adorable!”
Sighing, Zuckerman continued: “And my head was sticking out. They'd throw this thing on top of me, and I would just stick my arms up and go through the donut. It was like I was going into a spaceship; I was getting sucked up. You'd have to wiggle your head into the eyepiece and it was a very narrow hole, so every so often, you would skin your scalp.”
Sex Drive stars Zuckerman as an 18-year-old who drives across America with his friends (played by Crew and Clark Duke) to hook up with the girl of his dreams — or at least his online dreams, since he's only seen pictures of her on the Internet.
Both Zuckerman and Crew say they understand the pressures on 18 year-olds across the continent; after all, both of them are still in their early 20s.
“It's like a rite of passage to lose your virginity, especially for men. It's kind of like a sexual bar mitzvah,” Zuckerberg noted casually. “Of course, your hormones are saying to do it, your friends are saying to do it, society's saying to do it, that it's cool to do it, be a player, a pimp, all the Ps. At the same time, I don't feel it's anything you have to rush in to.”
“I think it's the same for girls as for boys,” Crew added. “I'd say there's more pressure on guys, but the pressure is still there for girls. At the end of the day it's your choice. I mean, I lost mine when I was 11 — I'm just joking!”
Zuckerman cut in, exclaiming: “I've seen the tapes.”
“Oh god, Josh!” Crew yelled sarcastically before continuing on. “But you know, everyone goes through that, and you kind of want to get it over with so it's over with, this awful curse hanging over you.”
It makes sense, then, that more people are turning to online dating to find that special someone. The film combines these elements about teen sexuality in the digital age, and throws a comic spin on it.
While Crew says she's creeped out by the idea of Internet dating, she laughed at one of Zuckerman's previous forays into the online world of love discovery, where she says he “perused an online dating site.”
Zuckerman was quick to defend himself.
“Perused is the absolutely active word there, right?” he said, laughing.
“Before they had online dating, back in the day, they had chat rooms, which they still do. When I was younger, and the Internet was just starting up, I thought it was interesting to learn from these forums. All you know is what your friends tell you and you learn things from your older brother,” he said.
“I did it maybe once or twice, and I never engaged in the conversation, I just read threads from these chat rooms. Which is kind of embarrassing to admit, but I did. The information is out there and you want to grab it.”
While most people don't have to drive across the country (in a giant donut suit nonetheless) to find their significant other, Zuckerman believes in the future, we might all find them by sitting at our computers.
“It just seems like the evolution of dating and evolution of social communication, since a lot of the ways we communicate these days is through the Internet — so it's completely legitimate, in my opinion. You run a risk, but it can also be fun. You meet a bunch of different people, and yeah, maybe you don't know who any of them are, but maybe you'll meet one who'll be the pearl.”
Both actors were excited to talk about their new film — especially about the process of Zuckerman's own transformation into a giant donut.
“The first time I had any encounter with the donut was probably a month or two before we started shooting. I don't know where it was, some factory, where there was paint fumes and all these monster heads from film history,” Zuckerman said.
“They were measuring my arms, legs, inseam, and my neck, and talking about all the different gadgets they wanted on it — the movable mouth and the movable headpiece so that [my] head could stick out. At that point, I really had no conception of what it was going to look like. I think I can say with certainty that everyone was extremely pleased with the way it turned out. I'd have to wear this spandex green suit underneath.”
Crew chimed in: “Adorable!”
Sighing, Zuckerman continued: “And my head was sticking out. They'd throw this thing on top of me, and I would just stick my arms up and go through the donut. It was like I was going into a spaceship; I was getting sucked up. You'd have to wiggle your head into the eyepiece and it was a very narrow hole, so every so often, you would skin your scalp.”
Sex Drive stars Zuckerman as an 18-year-old who drives across America with his friends (played by Crew and Clark Duke) to hook up with the girl of his dreams — or at least his online dreams, since he's only seen pictures of her on the Internet.
Both Zuckerman and Crew say they understand the pressures on 18 year-olds across the continent; after all, both of them are still in their early 20s.
“It's like a rite of passage to lose your virginity, especially for men. It's kind of like a sexual bar mitzvah,” Zuckerberg noted casually. “Of course, your hormones are saying to do it, your friends are saying to do it, society's saying to do it, that it's cool to do it, be a player, a pimp, all the Ps. At the same time, I don't feel it's anything you have to rush in to.”
“I think it's the same for girls as for boys,” Crew added. “I'd say there's more pressure on guys, but the pressure is still there for girls. At the end of the day it's your choice. I mean, I lost mine when I was 11 — I'm just joking!”
Zuckerman cut in, exclaiming: “I've seen the tapes.”
“Oh god, Josh!” Crew yelled sarcastically before continuing on. “But you know, everyone goes through that, and you kind of want to get it over with so it's over with, this awful curse hanging over you.”
It makes sense, then, that more people are turning to online dating to find that special someone. The film combines these elements about teen sexuality in the digital age, and throws a comic spin on it.
While Crew says she's creeped out by the idea of Internet dating, she laughed at one of Zuckerman's previous forays into the online world of love discovery, where she says he “perused an online dating site.”
Zuckerman was quick to defend himself.
“Perused is the absolutely active word there, right?” he said, laughing.
“Before they had online dating, back in the day, they had chat rooms, which they still do. When I was younger, and the Internet was just starting up, I thought it was interesting to learn from these forums. All you know is what your friends tell you and you learn things from your older brother,” he said.
“I did it maybe once or twice, and I never engaged in the conversation, I just read threads from these chat rooms. Which is kind of embarrassing to admit, but I did. The information is out there and you want to grab it.”
While most people don't have to drive across the country (in a giant donut suit nonetheless) to find their significant other, Zuckerman believes in the future, we might all find them by sitting at our computers.
“It just seems like the evolution of dating and evolution of social communication, since a lot of the ways we communicate these days is through the Internet — so it's completely legitimate, in my opinion. You run a risk, but it can also be fun. You meet a bunch of different people, and yeah, maybe you don't know who any of them are, but maybe you'll meet one who'll be the pearl.”
