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This is ridiculous,
make a documentary
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about Harold and Kumar.
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[narrator]
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
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follows two losers who set out to
satisfy your desire
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White Castle burgers.
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[David Krumholtz]
It's silly, but you know,
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in vain with all this trip.
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Just thinking about those tender ones
and little White Castle burgers,
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makes me want to burn
this whole damn place.
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There were many reasons
to not make this movie.
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[Harold]
What the hell are you doing?
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I'm trimming my pubic hair.
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Name another time
that they have ever done this.
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Hire two people of color
that you've never seen before.
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We are very high!
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[David] And the marijuana
It was still illegal nationwide.
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It is not aligned with Hollywood.
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- [director] Action!
- [David] Maybe it's divine.
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Maybe Harold and Kumar
it was meant to be.
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Because it doesn't make sense.
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I keep... I keep thinking
which is crazy.
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HULU PRESENTS
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A HULU ORIGINAL
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♪
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HIGHLY UNLIKELY
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HOW HAROLD AND KUMAR
IT BECAME A CLASSIC FOR STOKERS
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[John Cho]
Oh shit. This is great.
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[Paula Garces]
It's the entire White Castle set.
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Am I going to sit here?
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It seems that you
They had a great night.
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I could never be
in the real White Castle.
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Oh, hello, guys.
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Oh wow. Very bizarre.
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In fact, I arrived on time.
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I don't know why I'm apologizing
for arriving late.
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- Hey, do you want to suck this?
- Ujum.
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This is essentially what we built.
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[Jamie Richardson] I feel like
I entered a fantasy landscape.
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Welcome to White Castle.
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What year is it?
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Nice brand. Excellent brand.
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Can we go?
I'm bored as hell back here.
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At that time, there was only
two movies to smoke weed with.
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The Lord of the Rings...
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[laughing]
...and Harold and Kumar.
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- [both] Come on!
- [tires screeching]
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- Oh shit!
- Oh shit!
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- [raccoon screeching]
- [tire bursts]
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- I'm sorry!
- Holy shit.
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[Kumar] Goldstein?
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This is not working.
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Can I offer you a pink lemonade?
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Calm down, he's not going to look for us.
in the girls bathroom.
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Dude, Doogie Howser M.D.
It was my favorite show as a child.
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You were my idol.
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Can we go?
I'm bored as hell back here.
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I was there, I remember 2004.
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- [presenter] Happy New Year 2004!
- [crowd cheering]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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[♪ upbeat music plays]
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[David] Marijuana was
on the verge of social acceptance.
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But it still felt illegal.
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[Hayden Schlossberg]
You were going to see a fake doctor
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and you had an awkward interview.
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There came a point when it was said,
Shouldn't we legalize this?
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It was a few years after Bill Clinton
has admitted that he already did it.
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I experimented with marijuana
once or twice
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and I didn't inhale.
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[John Cho] Makes me put
a little melancholic because of my youth.
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My own stupidity makes me nostalgic.
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- [lights crack]
- [Hayden] Right here.
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- Uh-oh.
- Should we sit on opposite sides or...?
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YOUNG WRITERS
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We became friends in high school
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and we come together for comedy
immediately.
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I was in college, I was going to be
an investment banker like Harold.
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[Hayden]
I planned to go to law school.
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We ended up writing
a work at the university
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to get out of those races.
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[Jon Hurwitz] We both liked it
smoke weed at night,
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and it made us want to eat
all the time.
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So Harold and Kumar
was inspired
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on one of those trips
late nights trying to get donuts.
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Friend, I don't know about you,
but I'm starving.
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Yes, don't even say it. Let's eat.
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[Jon] We thought,
If we could catch that
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and get the audience engaged
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with these guys
just trying to get food.
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[paper sizzles]
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We wrote it in two weeks.
We showed it to our manager.
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He read it and said:
"This is very funny.
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I don't know what the market is for this.
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M-Q-C. Mother I would fuck.
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[Jon] American Pie came out in '99.
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But in 2001,
There were just a lot of things
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that were being launched
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and they hoped they would do well
and they were not doing well.
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[Hayden] No one bought comedies,
y las que compraban
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they were these high concept ideas.
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Our script didn't fit
en ese molde.
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- So we keep it.
- [clics del mouse]
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[descarga de inodoro]
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[Jon] Teníamos
aHarold and Kumar go to White Castle
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on the back
of the toilet in our apartment.
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And one of our friends comes in,
is shitting
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Go to Harold and Kumar there,
start reading it,
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sale y dice: "Ustedes
They should be working on this.
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I have never seen anything like this,
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and this captures things
with which one can identify."
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[Hayden] Our agent,
Todd Feldman said that
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those who make the decisions
just look at the first two pages
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and you will see Asian protagonists,
a little marijuana.
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They're just looking for a reason to say no.
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But they will read it
as a writing sample.
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It was presented as:
"You have to read this,
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and maybe you want to work
with these writers sometime."
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[Jon] And that's when we hear
that Greg Shapiro
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wants to meet with us and
Nathan Kahane wants to meet too.
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And suddenly it became
much more real very quickly.
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GREAT HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS
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Tell me, buddy, do you have a joint?
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[Nathan Kahane]
Nobody was making movies
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character-centered
Asian Americans.
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That did not exist at that time
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in a commercial comedy for adults
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that was going to be launched
on the big screen.
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[tires screech]
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Shit.
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Most things
What I got was a stereotype.
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You played an exchange student.
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[John]
Gangster, nerd, service personnel.
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It was an explicitly racist moment.
[laughing]
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There really isn't...
there is no way to say it.
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Hibachi, Benihana, teriyaki.
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No more touching.
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[Hayden] We saw this disconnect
between what was happening in reality
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and the representation
of what you saw on the screen
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with our Asian and Indian friends.
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[Jon]
We have a real friend, Harold Lee,
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and we had a very good friend
in high school,
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and his brother's name was Kumar.
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Those two boys were representatives
of our entire group.
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They were very committed
in keeping the characters as they were.
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They were turning the stage
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and putting the background in the foreground.
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Can you wait a moment?
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[John]
They played with all your expectations.
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I can't party today, okay?
I have to stay in the office.
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Dude, fuck that.
We had plans.
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[Jon] We didn't want to do
David and Jason go to McDonald's.
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The reason we would make this movie
It was because we loved the script.
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I hadn't seen boys
that they look like this starring in a movie,
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so I didn't think it would happen.
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[♪ string music plays]
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[Hayden]
We were very young scriptwriters
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trying to pay the bills,
but we had enough experience
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to know that only
because you sell something,
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does not mean that it will be done.
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There was a lot of uncertainty.
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[David] I think it was a huge risk
from New Line.
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There is a scene where Kal hits
and calls a bag of weed a bitch.
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- Bitch!
- [bag crying]
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[David] If you have been
in business for a long time,
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you know how studios think.
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This is the antithesis of that.
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It doesn't fit any Hollywood brand.
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[Jon] It was a theme
throughout the film.
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Put these things
who are considered non-favorites
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together in the same movie.
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White Castle was a chain
of non-favorite hamburgers.
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It was the perfect place for stoners.
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[drink gurgles]
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[Hayden] But definitely
We had difficulties with the brand.
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The biggest thing was to convince
to White Castle.
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The association at that time
with an illegal substance
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it wasn't something
that brands really wanted.
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[Jamie] In 2004,
I had just been promoted
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to marketing director
in White Castle,
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and I had the opportunity
to be fundamental
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to give it the green light
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
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One day, I received a phone call.
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They wanted to know if we could
watch this movie
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and I looked at the calendar to make sure
that it wasn't April Fool's Day.
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Looking at the script, that is, immediately
I said, "Oh, we can't do that."
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We always had fun, but never
We had gone to the adult terrain.
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Smoking weed, behaviors
that we typically wouldn't encourage.
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- [toilet gurgling]
- [groan]
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Shit!
You sunk my fucking ship.
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The heart of the movie
He was very attractive.
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It is a mission.
It's about facing adversity.
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And that is the essence
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of the American dream
in so many ways,
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but that american dream
that is available to everyone.
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I remember thinking
after reading the script:
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"Oh, I have to talk to my boss about this
because it's something we have to do."
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At first, there wasn't much love
for the script. [laughing]
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I had a good debate,
dialogue, discussion,
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but I wasn't going to get
the approval he needed.
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I wasn't letting him go.
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The challenge was posed:
"Well, if you want to go talk
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with Bill Ingram, you can do it."
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Bill Ingram is our leader
third generation
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at that time of Harold and Kumar.
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I enter, there is a comfortable rug,
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it's a luxurious office,
He is at his desk.
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It seems as if it were
a million kilometers away
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and my universe shrinks in me.
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It wasn't that hot,
but I was quite sweaty.
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And all I could say was:
"It has sex, drugs and rock and roll.
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Outside of that,
It's very good for us."
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[cigarette crackling]
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And he remained very silent, and said:
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"Well, you know, if you think it's
"That's a good idea, we should try it."
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Didn't you even read it?
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Oh my gosh, that's confidence.
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Hadn't Bill read the script?
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Did he only trust Jamie?
To Jamie's liking?
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Good for him.
A bold move.
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WHITE CASTLE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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BOLD
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- [metallic sound]
- [Kumar screaming]
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[Greg Shapiro]
There was a condition that I remember.
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New Line wanted a director who had
had at least one hit with a comedy.
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- [siren ringing]
- [tires screech]
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We started searching,
Danny raised his hand,
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he had just done
Hey, where's my car?
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which was a great success.
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Hey, where's my car?
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[Greg] He understood that he just needed
film the script
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and let the actors
do your thing.
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That was his special ability,
I think, as a director.
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What's happening behind me?
I see a...
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I see a Kal Penn t-shirt
behind me
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[Greg]
We begin the selection process.
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We were going to select
of a really wide network.
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I remember dying of laughter
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and think it was the funniest thing
that I had read.
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I'm sure I assumed
that was going to be offensive.
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I read it, and it wasn't,
and it was very funny.
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My memory is that they were
like six months of audition.
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There aren't many famous Asian Americans,
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so we don't need someone we know.
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We were only going to look for the best actor,
and we were not going to use
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the Asian guy from American Pie.
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We weren't going to use the Indian boy
by Van Wilder.
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- And look where we ended up.
- [laughs]
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[Nathan] They were the best,
and also... they were also handsome.
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We wanted everyone in the audience
They will identify with Harold and Kumar.
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[David] It's risky. Select
to two strangers, basically.
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Kal and-and John?
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That rarely happens these days.
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[David] Why wouldn't they believe
Is this a trap?
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Where is Ashton Kutcher
with Punk'd?'s cell phone
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[Jon]
And then, there was a big obstacle
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just before production.
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We were told that New Line
I wasn't going to greenlight the movie.
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unless we have
to two well-known people
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that were at a certain level or higher.
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[Kal]
"They need to fill this with cameos
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because nobody knows you guys."
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[Jon] We're all here.
I mean, are they really not going to do this?
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What they told us at that time was:
"No, they're not going to do this."
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[Paula]
This movie may not be made.
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[Hayden] As for the cameos, we said:
"Hey, what connections do we have?"
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“Everyone, uh, look to your resources.”
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[Greg] The biggest cameo
It was Neil Patrick Harris.
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And maybe the...
the hardest to get.
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Yes, I remember saying,
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Will Neil Patrick Harris do this?
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I mean, who is your backup?
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Because we are not going to get
to Neil Patrick Harris.
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So who is the backup?
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Your only option in fact is...
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Neil Patrick Harris.
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- It was written in the script.
- Yes.
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- There was no second option.
- [laughs]
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I don't know what we would have done
if Neil said no.
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- [both laughing]
- Me neither.
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- [Kumar] Are you hitchhiking?
- [Harold] What the fuck?
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Excuse me, are you Neil Patrick Harris?
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Yes.
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[Neil Patrick Harris] I got a call
from an actor friend who said:
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"Dude, I'm auditioning
for a movie that you're in."
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I had no idea what I was talking about.
because I wasn't getting
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none of the movies
for which he auditioned.
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This was really
an amplified version of me,
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super alpha and drugged.
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Especially then,
I had made kind films,
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positive, Doogie Howser.
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[Nathan] We really feel
which would be good for him.
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We felt that he would take it out
of that stereotype.
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I said yes, let's do it.
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Hi guys.
Thanks for lifting me up.
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[Nathan] Every little
physical choice you made,
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how to get into the back seat,
That's just his attitude.
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I gave him a lot of material
to be singularly ridiculous.
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That's all I know.
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It's all I do.
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I think the joke for me
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it was rather
the openly heterosexual.
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Forget White Castle,
Let's go find some girls.
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- Huh?
- It's a fucking sausage party.
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I think there was
a kind of asexuality with me,
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that when I was doing
Harold and Kumar,
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It was overtly sexual.
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Have you ever slept
with Wanda from the set?
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Dude, I slept with every ass
who appeared on that show.
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Then I think that made people
Think, "Oh, that's great. That's human."
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It really adjusted the trajectory
of my path and my career.
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That changed a lot for me.
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Did Doogie Howser just steal
my damn car?
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[Kal] And then, I remember when we were
filmingVan Wilder,
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Ryan Reynolds said:
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"One day, you'll be the lead actor
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and I would love to be there for that."
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Marijuana?
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- [monitor beeps]
- But why?
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[Kal] I had worked
with Anthony Anderson
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in The most wanted in Malibu.
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Like Jamie Kennedy,
Jamie was the main actor
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in Most Wanted in Malibu,
so I contacted him.
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He plays the guy pissing in the woods.
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Why do you pee next to me?
When can you choose that bush?
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Once that happened, then New Line
was officially on board.
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[Kal]
John and I connected on set.
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[John] Well, it was supposed to
that we were best friends,
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so... let's be best friends.
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I don't know if many people know this,
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but John and Kal personally
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They are the opposite of their characters.
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[John]
Kumar was more like a Fonzi.
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When they said "action",
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he became a great guy,
and not...
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Because he... I'm sorry, man.
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It's not nice.
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Am I not nice?
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In life. [laughing]
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But, like Kumar,
somehow it's very nice.
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[Kal] One of the first times
what I remember feeling
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that Cho was a brother,
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we were in the studio
filming in the car.
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During a... a lighting arrangement,
Open the door to stretch your legs,
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and just before closing the door,
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leans back and lunges
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the biggest fart
that you have ever heard in your life.
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And that's when... I said,
Oh yes, we are brothers.
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[Jon] People always say
which is like a summer camp.
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You were there for a couple of months.
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[Nathan] That is, they did
amazing job on set.
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Everyday life was very fun.
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[Jon] We were able to have our own
White Castle adventure.
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It was super fun.
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We didn't smoke weed
real in the movie.
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You are not allowed to do that.
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Hey, but friend,
We were equally high.
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I was super high...
Oh shit.
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[scoffs]
My parents will watch this.
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Next question... what's next?
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[Jon] Opening night
In fact it was incredible.
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The entire cast was there.
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[Paula] White Castle was there
delivering hamburgers.
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[Jon] The movie had gone down very well
and they thought it would be a great success.
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We were hired to write a sequel.
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We got into a limousine
and we were going to go
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from cinema to cinema to see it
with different crowds.
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[Kal]
And there was no one in these cinemas.
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There were 15 people in one,
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and seven people in the other.
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We went to the next one.
[laughing] Zero people.
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[Jon] It was like election coverage
and, okay,
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we are receiving the initial numbers,
and it looks like hell.
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CURRENT GROSS INCOME: 5.2 MILLION
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[♪ soft music plays]
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The next day, we received a call
and they said let's not write the sequel.
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Oh my God, and did they tell you
that to them?
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It's crazy.
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[Kal]
I remember my manager at the time,
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I received calls from other executives
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from Hollywood saying things like:
"See? We told you.
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Two Asian American men
They can't open a studio movie."
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Anything that an actor
of color did,
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If I didn't succeed,
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the guess was that you were ruining it
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for all people of your race.
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That was difficult.
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[Hayden] So much enthusiasm,
so much accumulation.
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And then, within 24 hours,
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It's like: "It's bad,
and they should stop everything,
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and just... let's get depressed
right now."
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STONE CLASSICS
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[Jon]
At one point, it came out on DVD.
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[Kumar]
Hey, Roldy, look, we're on DVD.
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I wonder if he has
the scene deleted from you
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licking Freakshow's ass.
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- How about a foursome?
- Oh!
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[Kal] And suddenly,
people gave each other the DVD,
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they had movie parties
in their rooms and apartments.
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They loved these characters.
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Dude, that was amazing.
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Where did that come from?
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[Hayden] It became something mythical,
I mean, how many DVDs?
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[Nathan] She was very successful
like a movie after life.
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I think probably
because people liked to smoke
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when they watched the movie.
[laughs]
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It is a very beautiful story.
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[Jamie] One of our main
financial people said bewildered:
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"Why are our sales doing so well?
It must be that the weather is nice."
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I think I humbly remember saying:
"The DVD is out."
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It is the second time in our history
that we almost ran out of hamburgers.
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- [tires screech]
- [car horn]
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[Greg] It was a non-favorite movie
about losers,
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and I had an experience
at the box office at a disadvantage,
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that came out, was knocked down,
but he got up again,
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and had enough views,
and it had enough zeitgeist.
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And then he turned, that is,
They were talking about a second movie.
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[Greg] At the end of the day, no one
he cares about box office numbers.
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What matters to them is,
Did you see the movie?
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Is it a classic?
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[John] When something comes out
from the assembly line
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that doesn't fit the mold,
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I think that's always the case
a reason to celebrate.
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I thought doing this was going to be good.
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But I never thought I would have
the enduring status it had.
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It became a kind of classic
cult, which was... it was incredible.
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[growling]
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[♪ upbeat music plays]
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[Hayden] Right after it was done
Harold and Kumar's latest movie,
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decriminalization began to be seen,
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legalization throughout the country.
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[David]
It was when the world admitted...
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that many of us smoked
grass every day.
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That grass is universal.
There is no division of races.
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[Kumar] Oh my god!
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- Wow, friend!
- Au.
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Maybe even took
to the legalization of marijuana.
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[announcer]
They lined up in Denver today
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for the first legal retail sale
of recreational marijuana.
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When something is given visibility,
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People are starting to see that just...
It's happening anyway.
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I should have taken advantage of this
to have a cannabis empire.
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It would be very rich.
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[giggles]
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Kush by John Cho,
That could have been something.
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[snap]
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[Kal] But if the attractiveness
of this movie was only for stoners
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and only for Asian Americans,
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would not have reached the number
of DVDs he reached.
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- We must go to White Castle.
- Yes, yes!
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00:19:36,384 --> 00:19:38,134
I knew you had it in you, buddy.
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People looked at him
because these two friends
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it made them remember
the friendships they have.
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The American Dream
It's something that should be celebrated,
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and I think that's the reason
why it resonated with so many people.
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I won't risk my life
for a couple of hamburgers, friend.
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Okay, so you think this is
just for the burgers, huh?
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[Greg] If you take everything away,
It's a platonic love story
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between two boys
who support each other.
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- TRUE. TRUE.
- No matter what.
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And they are very different people.
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00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:06,788
They were the strangest couple.
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00:20:06,789 --> 00:20:08,123
They have different mentalities.
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They have different shapes
to see life,
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- but they love each other.
- [Nathan] Yes.
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[Greg] And they are willing
to support each other.
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- [Indian accent] Thank you, come back soon.
- [laughter]
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- Are you okay?
- Yeah, dude, I just hate those idiots.
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[Malin Akerman] I feel like it's
ahead of its time, really.
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Thank you, come back soon.
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It really opened the doors for us.
He really did it.
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He opened the doors to all of us.
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He opened the doors
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for a more inclusive selection
in... in comedy.
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[Greg] I'm very happy
that the legacy of Harold and Kumar
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has lived for decades now,
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and people continue to enjoy it.
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I love that we are having
a rival conversation
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about how they fit
in our culture zeitgeist.
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And then, it's also a movie
where there are jaguars,
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and human-sized bags of weed
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and a guy with a ton
of pubic hair.
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[Malin] It's one of those things
difficult to achieve,
482
00:20:56,589 --> 00:20:58,339
and then all the pieces
they fall together.
483
00:20:58,340 --> 00:21:00,133
The right people
take the opportunities,
484
00:21:00,134 --> 00:21:03,178
and then you have this movie
very funny.
485
00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:04,971
We did it, friend.
486
00:21:04,972 --> 00:21:08,433
What he put into the world
It was enormously positive.
487
00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:10,977
In every interview I have they say:
"Would you eat some on screen?"
488
00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:14,147
[laughing] Oh my God,
what are they making me eat?
489
00:21:14,148 --> 00:21:15,440
Alright. This is different.
490
00:21:15,441 --> 00:21:17,400
Oh yes.
491
00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:19,068
- Health.
- Yes, health.
492
00:21:19,069 --> 00:21:20,570
Let's do it.
493
00:21:20,571 --> 00:21:23,072
I understand. Know?
494
00:21:23,073 --> 00:21:24,533
I understand.
495
00:21:25,326 --> 00:21:26,409
Delicious.
496
00:21:26,410 --> 00:21:28,578
It's very good.
497
00:21:28,579 --> 00:21:30,872
[kiss sounds]
Chef's kiss.
498
00:21:30,873 --> 00:21:32,458
Woo!
499
00:21:34,043 --> 00:21:36,044
It's quite delicious.
500
00:21:36,045 --> 00:21:38,421
[Jon] You don't get that
at the end of a short documentary.
501
00:21:38,422 --> 00:21:39,840
It's a gift.
502
00:21:42,676 --> 00:21:46,262
IN MEMORY OF DIRECTOR DANNY LEINER
1961-2018
503
00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:49,266
[♪ "All in My Head" by Computer plays]
504
00:21:56,398 --> 00:22:01,320
♪
505
00:22:07,868 --> 00:22:13,582
♪
506
00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:23,509
♪
507
00:22:25,469 --> 00:22:27,596
[♪ song fades]