29 November 2014
Newsdesk
Jason Bateman struggled to “keep a straight face” on the set of Horrible Bosses 2.
The 45-year-old stars in the upcoming sequel alongside fellow comedic actors Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx. He has admitted it was difficult to contain their laughter in the midst of filming.
“There was a lot of hard work happening on the set, which is my long winded way to answer how we kept a straight face,” he told Collider.com. “We were working pretty hard. There was a lot of messing up, a lot of giggles, it’s like you can’t make your kids laugh, we can’t make each other laugh that way. We know each other’s fast ball and we know when it’s coming. We’re just kind of used to it.”
But cracking each other up on set was not the main goal. Everybody involved was committed to producing an excellent sequel to the first movie, which rated highly back in 2011.
“We were pretty serious about wanting to make this thing not suck,” Jason added. “We were really happy and proud of the first film. Neither one of us have been in oodles and oodles of blockbusters, so for a film that we were in to do really well, we didn’t want to soil that by doing a stinky sequel.”
The star also chatted about how they found a way to work their different strengths into the script. He believes that having a British mother has made his sense of humour more “dry”.
“We all have our different fastballs, we all have our different skill sets, and I think that’s why the three of us work well as this sort of three-headed monster,” he said. “Jason [Sudeikis] is lightening fast all the time, and that probably has to do with his extensive improv training. I’ve done quite a bit of that myself, but my instinct, my comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in – my mother’s British so I’ve always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I’m kind of predisposed to be the straight man. That’s my tempo.”
