Greg
Heffley, the kid who made “wimpy” cool, is looking forward to his summer
vacation in “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” but when his dad (Steve Zahn)
decides they should spend more time together, Greg does everything he can to
keep his father from ruining his summer vacation.
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| Zachary Gordon as Greg. Photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox |
In “Diary
of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days,” which combines elements of both the third and fourth
of the “Wimpy Kid” books, the good news is that school is out for the summer
and Greg is looking forward to a vacation spent playing video games, hanging
out with his best friend, Rowley, and working his way into the affections of
the girl he has a crush on, Holly Hills. The bad news is that Greg Heffley
being Greg Heffley, nothing is going to go as planned.
“At the
start of the film Greg’s dad takes away all of his video game privileges and
basically decides Greg should spend all his summer hanging out with him and
doing outdoor stuff like camping and swimming,” explains Zachary Gordon, the
thirteen-year-old actor who plays Greg.
In school
or out of school, Greg also has a tendency to get himself into painfully
embarrassing situations; Zachary says that this time round his on-screen alter
ego plumbs new depths of humiliation. In “Dog Days”, Greg goes one step further
and loses his swimsuit in a crowded pool. Greg also has what Zachary delicately
refers to as a “mishap” on a roller coaster, meaning, we’re pretty sure, that
Greg throws up on his fellow passengers. For the record, Zachary admits he was
a bit nervous himself when it came time to shoot the film’s roller coaster
scene but after a couple of time around, he was hooked. “I went on six times in
a row,” the young actor says, “It was awesome.”
“And
playing Greg for a third time, I feel like I settled into it as soon as I saw
the rest of the cast again. It was more like a ‘Wimpy’ reunion than coming back
to work,” Zachary says, “because everyone feels like part of my family now.”
“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days”
will open August 15 in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be
distributed by Warner Bros.
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