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Peter Billingsly on Wild West Comedy
By Fred Topel | Image property of Picturehouse.
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show
Peter Billingsly Talks Wild West Comedy Show
"I am a boy that takes more after his mother than his father, who is more of an athlete, and Vince is my best friend," Billingsly explained. "So to impress my dad and get his love, I take steroids. And then of course, to win over Nicole Eggert, who was formerly on Charles in Charge, who is in the school, who is a beautiful blonde who I want her affection. So to win over her, I take steroids."
It was a star studded affair. "For those of you who remember the show American Gladiators, Malibu, who was on American Gladiators sold me the steroids, so I bought them from him. The guy with the long hair, ‘You want steroids, yes?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I guess.’ And then I get fast, and then I become the fourth man of the track team. I get really fast overnight. Get the girl, get my dad’s approval, and then have a heart attack in the big race and then get the speech from the doctor about how I shouldn’t be doing it. And of course, I’ve got the zits, too."
That Afterschool Special also introduced Billingsly to one of the comics headlining the standup tour. "I met Ahmed Ahmed then as well, who was an extra in that, and we all became friends. At the time, Vince was one of the smartest, certainly funniest guys that I had met, and it was a question of when with him, not if. Vince would go out for a lot of stuff like a lot of actors do, and he would get really down to the wire, down to the wire and just wouldn’t get it. And that’s when they met on Rudy, and made a decision to sort of control their own destiny and said, ‘Hey, let’s make a film.’"
Vaughn succeeded in acting, Favreau moved towards directing and Billingsly went on to produce, but the bond remained. "I think in all of our cases, there was a friendship first, really. Before I met Vince on a set of a movie, or not a movie, it was an Afterschool Special about steroids, but we’ve really formed a friendship, and that was what was first and foremost. I was trying to transition at that point in my career and producing it into stuff, and we just really became great friends and then had an opportunity to work again later. And these guys met on Rudy, and we were just telling stories about it, calling up the bell hop and having fun, and just stuff that young guys to have a good time. There was really a genuine friendship, and that’s what really started it, and then I think the work has grown from there."
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is out in theaters now .
For the trailer and more movie info, go to the Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Picturehouse.
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