Ryan Phillippe and his co stars SNL’s Kristen Wiig and Will Forte were on the set filming their new movie ‘ MacGruber,’ in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday.
If you’re not familiar, MacGruber is the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch that parodies MacGyver (the 80’s series where MacGyver could make weapons out of paperclips). The most famous MacGruber skit is the Pepsi one.
Forte plays the titular bumbling spy and Wiig reprises her Vicki character (MacGruber’s assistant).
If you’re not familiar, MacGruber is the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch that parodies MacGyver. The most famous MacGruber skit is the Pepsi one. Forte plays a bumbling spy and Wiig reprises her Vicki character as MacGruber’s assistant.
SNL actor Bill Hader recently told press he’s excited to see the sketch get played out in a full-length film and can’t wait for the final product.
“I read the script, and it’s like a hard-R comedy, and it totally works. It’s hilarious. It’s kind of in the vein of, like, eighties action movies, like there’s a very definitive bad guy. I don’t know if I can talk about the plot too much, but it’s hilarious. The thing that kind of blew my mind about it is that it’s like a HARD-R movie. I was like, ‘What is this? This is f***ing ugly. You guys are really going to do this?’ And they’re like, ‘Yup.’ And I was like, ‘That is awesome. That is f***ing hilarious.”
Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It!, a comedy about a teen who rebels against her beauty pageant-obsessed mother by joining a roller derby league. The film also stars Juno’s Ellen Page,SNL’s Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, and Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat and hits theaters October 9th. Check out the movie’s newly released trailer!
The premise sounds odd, but, surprisingly, it looks really good! Plus, it has a great cast. Are you looking forward to seeing it?
