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Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd remember David Hyde Pierce and ask you to ask “Wet Hot American Summer” set “to be loud”

The first day of shooting was not exactly “the ultimate” for David Hyde Pierce On Wet hot American summer.

Paul Rudd recently appeared in Amy Poehler’s podcast Good slope To caut on the memory lane into the past and to discuss his new film friendship With Tim Robinson. The two of course reflected the first project to work together, the pioneering comedy Wet hot American summer.

The low-budget summer camp film from 2001, staged by David Wain, is now celebrated as a lodi star for well-known talents. Some of the earliest remarkable appearances by Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Meloni and some others. Rudd and Poehler continued and continued about how, despite the cosmic weather, they really felt like children in the camp, which made the film. And part of it may be due to the adults, pierce and expressed mixed feelings about the party atmosphere.

Amy Poehler at the Oscar party 2025; Paul Rudd visits “Snl50: The Homecack concert” in NYC.

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“We worked very little,” Poehler recalled the one -week shoot in an actual summer camp in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, which is about 30 minutes from the next shop.

“If you didn’t film, you had to buy the beer,” thought Rudd. “We all just hang out and drink beer (the film’s composer and shivered to think of front man) Craig Wedren played guitars and played music really loudly, very late.”

“Remember David Hyde Pierce, who came out to tell us … ‘Can you be a little quieter?'” Asked Poehler. “Yes,” replied Rudd. “He appeared … we were all stupid children who wanted a great time -”

Poeme corrected there. “We were not Children, we were in our 30s, “she said to a few giggles.

“You were in late 20, I think I was 30 years knowledge. We all said: ‘What will this type think?’ “, Said Rudd.

“We all slept in it, like in the infirmary, where we had our own rooms with Cots,” he continued, “and there was the main area area, where we made music and really loud every evening until two in the morning.

“He probably rehearsed, led his lines, he is one Professional,“Poehler said, still in a bit of awe.

“I remember that he came out and stopped in the door,” added, “added Rudd,” how the needle stopped on the plate. Everyone became calm, we all looked and Ken Marino: ‘Oh, great, it’s frasier!’

The gang becomes Rowdy in the “Wet Hot American Summer”.

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Fortunately, this remark was well received and did not lead to a static between Pierce and his Costars. Rudd and Poehler remembered that Pierce was a “cooler” and “beautiful guy” and seemed to be really curious about what was going on that night.

The 80s set Wet hot American summerAlthough they were revived on Netflix in both prequel and follow-up, it was not exactly a cash attack during the first publication. The film, written by Wain and Michael Showalter, was not celebrated by too many critics at the time. (A few righteous publications such as EW were ahead of the curve!)

However, the use of the Jefferson -Starship song “Jane” in the opening loans leads us to ask a profound philosophical question. What is the best film to show a song with Mickey Thomas on Vocals? Is that or is it 1987 mannequinThis includes that the Starship “Nothing stops us now”? Maybe some things just can’t be answered …

If you have an hour, you would do it well to spend it to see Rudd and Poehler in the latest episode of each other Good slope. There is even a whole to-do, with Jon Hamm checked out-on top of that inside a hot air balloon!

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