Blades of Glory
Will Arnett joins his real life wife Amy Poehler as the villains of Blades of Glory. The champion figure skating team Stranz and Fairchild doesn't like to see former singles Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy Macelroy (Jon Heder) come into their turf.
Will Arnett Talks Blades of Glory
"Luckily the Olympics happened right before we started shooting," said Arnett. "As we were sort of prepping and getting ready, I don’t know if anybody remembers last year from Turino, but the ice-dancing couples, the pairs, there was an Italian couple who the guy screwed up. he dropped her, and they were about to win it all. They had come out of retirement and they go to their final thing, they freeze at the end, and she won’t let it go, like standing there 30 seconds. And then they go to the ‘kiss and cry’ area, which we learned the kiss and cry, they’re sitting there and he’s like ahhhh, just waiting for the scores, and she’s like boring a hole through him."
As comically ultra-serious competitors, Stranz and Fairchild give Jimmy's peacock outfit and Chazz's flaming suit a run for their money. "The costuming on the movie was very elaborate and at a certain stage when we were getting ready, before we started shooting, they were doing camera tests and things like that, and we realized after having watched the Olympics that you can’t go too far in this area. Nothing is over the top. It really needed to be pumped up, and that’s how we ended up going to the place with the so called hip-hop outfits or the Marilyn and JFK."
That's right, they do a skating routine as JFK and Marilyn Monroe. "JFK was a one piece, except in order to achieve the bottom of the suit jacket, I had to wear essentially what amounted to skirt that I clipped around as the last piece. It’s not emasculating at all."
Arnett was a skating fan in real life too. "As a kid who grew up in Canada, coming out into an arena on skates was just so awesome. It's like a dream come true. Every day I got to go work at a rink."
Working with his wife was quality time too. It was fun for us because Amy works on her show and for the last few years I've been working on Arrested Development and then a year ago or whenever it was that we started shooting this movie, we had the opportunity to work for much, much more. We had the opportunity to work together every day so that was kind of great. It was a lot of fun."
Blades of Glory opens to theatres tomorrow, March 30th.
For the trailers, clips, stills, more interviews and movie info, go to the Blades
of Glory Movie Page.
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