Blades of Glory
Figure skating is automatically funny. Guys figure skating is funnier, and two guys figure skating as a pair is the funniest yet. When Will Ferrell and Jon Heder pair up in Blades of Glory, they get closer than most romantic couples, with their faces in each other's crotches for many of the film's comic stunts.
Jon Heder Talks Blades of Glory
"The contract said no less than 2 centimeters," joked Heder. "I think, all in all, it ended up being mostly effects. I even think the upside legs was actually fake. It wasn’t even someone else’s."
So with any crotch-face controversy cleared up, Heder could focus on the skating, which he took to nicely. "I love it. I’ve gone only once since because I’ve been busy, but I’m going to. I’m going to try to make it a regular, once a month to semi-annual thing."
Heder wears a peacock costume has his flamboyant figure skater, complete with a fluffy tail on his butt. "I remember seeing it in the design, but I always forgot about it because it’s so light, and I never saw it. People would say something and I’d be like, 'Oh, that’s right, I’ve got feathers back there.' The peacock outfit was kind of my idea because we had seen clips and footage of other skaters, just to study and research, and Johnny Weir had this swan outfit. It was kind of a famous routine. It was very serious, but the glove was a swan, and I was like, 'That would be funny to do, but do it as a peacock.' Skaters are very much like peacocks. It was amazing. I just remember throwing that idea out, and then, the next thing I knew, she had this bejeweled glove and the eye, and everything. It was like, wow!"
He also sports long blonde hair. "I loved it. I love hair. It's very important. I think so much of the look, obviously including wardrobe, but the hair is a huge thing because it's basically the frame for your eyes and that's the window to your soul is what they say. I always love messing with my own hair. As much as I can, I don't normally like to wear wigs. If it's just scheduling reasons, but yeah, we did extensions and played around and it's always fun getting into that character that way."
The boys really skated in a stadium filled with extras, so Heder sort of got the sense of being a real competitor. "The first part, it was kind of nervous. Being in front of the camera is fine. In front of other people, there's always a small cast but this is the first movie where I remember the first time when we started shooting the skating stuff, to be out there where we have our routines planned, we know the routine but then you have all these extras. And it was like the real deal. I got up, I was nervous, I didn't want to mess up. I mean, once you start going it's fine."
Blades of Glory is out in theatres.
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