From his
blockbuster works such as “Real Steel,” “Cheaper By The Dozen,” “Night at the
Museum 1 & 2,” and “Date Night,” filmmaker Shawn Levy brings in the
outcasts, the obsolete and the nerds in the upcoming comedy movie “The Internship”
starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
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“The Internship” finds Nick (Wilson) and his partner Billy (Vaughn), as two
newly unemployed watch salesman trying to find employment with a limited
skill-set in a world that appears to have passed them by.
“As salesmen they are incredibly good at what they do,” says Levy, “but the
whole profession of selling in person, in an age where most people
areincreasingly buying their goods on the Internet, is on the wane. So they are
downsized, suddenly unemployed, and Vince's character comes up with this idea
of applying for an internship at Google, a company that represents the vanguard
of the new economy. It's a long shot, but this possibility of self-reinvention
is exciting to Billy and Nick and they take their shot.”
“If you're going to team Owen and Vince, a duo that is arguably one of the most
special in comedy, you need to build characters that exploit their natural
personalities. So you haveOwen’s character Nick, who is a bit more laconic,
very positive, very much - to quote his character - 'a blue sky artist'. He’s
an optimist, but we meet him in a moment when he's been thrown back on his
heels. Although he is working for a rather unlikable character, he is still
soulful and has an original perspective on life. Vince, meanwhile, plays Billy
who is a fast talker, a big dreamer, makes lots of plans, has alot of big
ideas, but can't always put it all together. They've been friends since they were
kids, and we get a real sense of that history, and they have a very easy
rapport that mirrors the chemistry and rapport between Vince and Owen in real
life,” narrates Levy of the duo’s characters.
Director Levy further reveals that Sergey Brin, founder of Google made cameo
appearances, “I've got him in there twice. The cameo that everyone recognizes
is at the end when he says, ‘Congratulations boys,’ to Owen and Vince. But if
you look closely, when Vince and Owen arrive at Google and they're looking
around at this fantastical strange workplace, there's a point of view shot
showing a man in yoga clothes on an elliptical bicycle wearing big neon green
fluffy slipper shoes and a pair of futuristic glasses with a computer screen
above the eyebrow. That too is Sergey Brin.”
“Here’s more, we had a sign-up sheet for real Googlers - which is what they
call themselves - to be extras in the movie and we had hundreds of people who
wanted to play background performers. So most of the extras you see in the
exteriors at Google are real Googlers, and they were the most directable and
intelligent extras I've ever had in my life. Probably because they were wildly
over qualified and over educated,” enthuses Levy.
“The Internship” will open in cinemas starting August 14 from 20th
Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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