Wild Hogs
Tim Allen on Wild Hogs
"I rode many bikes and motorcycles," said Allen. "My brother was in an accident when he was a kid, and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles. About four years ago I bought a Norton that I've been riding around L.A. a little bit, but this was the first time I was on a Harley."
The road trip in Wild Hogs turns into a disaster for the guys, but Allen had a real life experience that tops even the evil biker gangs and gay highway cops of the film. "I took a trip with the best looking girl from college, got her somehow convinced, she was a rich girl, to take a trip with her Camaro, thinking that they got hooked up somehow, and you know, she had to be stuck with me in that damn car. I was the most frustrated angry man. She's driving in a bikini, because we didn't have air conditioning. So I had to sit there in the car, we drove across country, when we got to Los Angeles, I was just gonna go home and explode if I didn't get out of the car. She said, 'Why don't we stop by the capitol before we go home?' And I said, 'Of what?' She said, 'We're almost to Washington.' I said, 'Um, that would be Washington, D.C. This is Washington state we're heading towards.'"
His character's wardrobe comes from Allen's own tastes two, a series of T-shirts for popular '70s bands. "I picked that AC/DC tee shirt because it was the only one Disney could afford. No, we had a whole series, the Allman Brothers Band, J. Geils was my pick. That's what I wanted because that was what I grew up with, and that's what the character [would have.] I wanted to have the old rock and roll, and he's lost all that, and John [Travolta]'s character and mine, we were real partiers, and I always just thought that was cool, because I got a bunch of guys like that. These guys, I thought they were gonna die, the way they partied, and now these guys are dentists."
The character's midlife crisis was also inspired by Allen's cohorts. "I went to all my old high school reunions, that's where I came from, is high school reunions, that I love all my old friends, I'm still in contact with them. I've got three guys, one who took it in his head to raise one of his brother's kids, he's got two of his own kids, he took over his drywall and plumbing business when the dad had died, and all of the sudden, we were both at this party and he goes, 'What happened to my life?' And this guy was gonna go to Africa and I don't know, skin beasts with a pocket knife. He had all these plans, and now he turned around and look what he's got, he's living in a modest size home outside of Warren, Michigan, and he goes, 'What the hell happened?'
Wild Hogs opens to theatres on March 2nd.
For the trailer, clips, poster, movie stills and more movie info, go to the Wild
Hogs Movie Page.
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