Q: So James, Rosie said that you bit her on the ass in a fight sequence? Can you elaborate on that?

JAMES: We did an action scene together, a fight scene together. On Spider-Man, we'd usually have two to four weeks to do an action scene and on this movie, we'd have like two hours. We did most of the scene and David Gordon, the director, said, "Let's do one take where you wrestle and see what happens." So we were doing that and opportunity arose where I had a shot to bite her ass. So I took it. I think it was very funny.

Q: Did you two plan to work together again someday when "Freaks and Geeks" went off the air?

SETH: I wouldn't exactly put it like that. I always liked James and I was always open to working with him again but it didn't really seem like there would be any real way for that to happen.

JAMES: I was always trying. I wanted him as my sidekick.

SETH: I auditioned for Sandman, Tristan...Annapolis? I auditioned to play Annapolis. (Laugh) But we always got along really well and Judd ran into him. The notion of working with him arose and I got really excited about that idea. I always thought

he was hilarious. He shot that thing for "Knocked Up" and he was really fun doing that so as soon as that started happening, it seemed like a good idea.

Q: A lot of talent came out of "Freaks and Geeks." Did you guys know how special that was back then?

JAMES: It was Seth's first professional job and it was the first good thing that I did. At the time, we had a feeling that it was good and had a good response. But it was subsequent to that when I did projects that weren't as good as that, that I realized how special that group of people was - from the writers, to the actors, to the directors they got, to the producers. So it really was a unique experience that I've learned only after it was canceled.

Q: So how did you two get in the mindset of potheads?

SETH: (Sarcasm) It was really hard for me. I moved to Holland, spent some time there.

JAMES: Talking to people?

SETH: Yes, getting down there in the streets. Hitting the pavement. Franco, we introduced him to some pot-type people.

JAMES: I don't smoke weed. When I say it, you can really believe it. (Laughs) I never sold it or anything so I met pot dealers and asked them about their business. I found one guy who was a particularly good model so we got him a job on the crew. So he was around all the time if I needed any weird pot names or something like that.

Q: Where did the story come from?

SETH: The rough notion of the story came from Judd, just this idea of these guys going on the run from pot dealers. And then me and Evan started thinking what was an organic way for that to happen and how can we explore this funny relationship between potheads and pot dealers. We put in a lot of our own experiences and did a lot of thinking of what exactly would we want to see in a movie. Car chases, shootouts, ninjas and shit like that. We just threw in the kitchen sink.

Q: Were you fans of stoner movies growing up?

SETH: Well, I honestly don't like the Cheech & Chong movies, I guess. I really like "The Big Lebowski" which is probably my favorite movie of all-time. "Friday" I watched around a hundred thousand times when I was in high school. When you're young and you're learning to just smoke weed and you find whole movies about it, that's the most awesome thing ever. Growing up, we were big fans of those movies but we realized that the ones we really like are the ones that aren't just for people who are stoned. We tried to break out of that box a little bit by adding other elements.

Q: There's some homoerotic subtext in the film but it's not so much that you're laughing at them than with them....

SETH: Yes. I don't even think it's sub text. I think it's text. I wrote it!

JAMES: David would say things like, "You're in love with Dale."

SETH: Yeah. Look at him like you love him. There was a lot of that.

JAMES: It seemed like Judd even realized that until we saw some of the dailies. He was like, My god. It's like a love story between a dealer and his client." I liked that. It transends the genre where it's not two idiots just smoking weed and they're high and it's the only appeal. It's a relationship movie.

SETH: We go deep. (Laughs)

Q: You're working on "The Green Hornet" Seth so what can you tell us about it?

SETH: What can I tell you...well, we've written it. We're meeting with directors and we have a release date of June 2010, I think. You can teleport to the theater or get there in a flying car...if there's still a world in 2010! But we're looking to make it around February or March. As soon as we get a director, we'll start pre-production.

Q: Is Stephen Chow going to be Kato?

SETH: No, not right now. Until we hire a director, it's hard to cast a movie.

Q: How do you and Evan Goldberg throw at your egos when you write scripts?

SETH: We don't. We heavily infuse our egos into the writing process. There's a lot of talk about how funny we are, how great what our writing is, and how the world will be changed for the better once we're done and how future generations will learn from our work. That's all we talk about when we work because man, there will be two phases in history: before when this movie comes out and afterwards.

Q: Is it weird that you've become sort of this icon for twenty-something males?

SETH: I always say that the only thing we think about when we write these movies is: what do we want to go see? That's one hundred percent of our motivation. There's really no thought that goes into what other people want to see. It's what do we want to see right now. What do we wish is in the theater at this second. Right now, I am 26 and Evan is 25 and so we're making movies for 26 year olds and 25 year olds. Maybe when we get older, that sensibility will change and we'll want to make the movies that 40 year olds will go see in theaters.

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