Zach Galifianakis on "G-Force" and "The Hangover"

July 22, 2009 by Lance Carter

From MovieFone:
How was acting with green screen?
The acting towards nothing is pretty intimidating, but you get used to it. There’s really no practicing you can do — and you’re talking to guinea pigs! So there’re a couple of variables there that you have to keep in mind while you’re saying the lines.

You talk to a fly, too.
Mooch [the fly] doesn’t really talk back, so it makes it a little bit easier. He just kind of buzzes back, and somehow I understand what he’s saying. The fly thing was difficult because he’s flying around, and also, there’s a scene in there where, I hope people get the joke, I say, “I don’t like it when my fly is down.” After I said that the director goes, “Cut. Why are you talking about your zipper down?” I’m like “Oh God, he didn’t get the joke.” [laughs]

While you were filming ‘The Hangover,’ did you have any inkling that it was going to be so huge?
Well, we knew it was going to be good. We didn’t really expect anything more than just a good, entertaining, funny movie. I don’t think anybody expected it to be what it is now.

In the end credits, you get it on with a senior citizen. Do older women hit on you now?
You’re talking about ‘G-Force,’ right? [Laughs] I hope no women of that age have seen that movie ['The Hangover']. But that woman, when we were shooting that, I was so embarrassed for her and for me. But it turns out, I said, “Ma’am, I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable, you just tell me what to do here.” It turns out she was an old porno actress … and she’s the voice of Juarez! [laughs]

In the end credits, is that you or is that a stunt penis?
That’s fake.

How much of your dialogue in ‘The Hangover’ was improvised?
A lot. Many, many lines. The structure of the script, the outline was very strong, and all the set pieces. But as far as the dialogue and things that had happened and the undercurrent stories like me emulating Phil or me having a crush on Bradley Cooper’s character, none of that was in the script.