BAD TRIP Official Trailer (Redband) (2020) Orion Pictures 136K subscribers Subscribe 20K Save 2.1M views 2 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) It's cable. Nobody thats in on it is in the frame. Courtesy Of Amazon Studios/Amazon Studios, via Associated Press. The hilarious scene at the end of the movie, inspired by the movie White Chicks, which Chris and Bud reference throughout the movie, actually had to be filmed twice. Its pretty high-tech special effects makeup, a lot of prosthetic silicone pieces that all need to be glued and painted, and a wig. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. The genesis of it for Bad Trip was that every road trip comedy in the 80sit was always a white family, or white buddy duo, and theyd always have a scene like, Uh-oh! 1,388, This story has been shared 1,360 times. Even the guy in that scenethe guy with the dreadlocks and the peace sign that was really helping us out? Thank God. He's so invested and on the hook and good natured. Bad Trip. They don't go into detail, but it has me very curious. Work brings an American travel executive to Vietnam, where a free-spirited tour guide helps open her eyes to a beautifully adventurous way of life. (One of its creators, Jeff Tremaine, is a producer of Bad Trip.). I loved all the White Chicks riffs in the movie, and the reveal at the end of you and Lil Rel dressing up like the characters at the gala. Cover Story: Anya Taylor-Joy on Life Before and After The Queens Gambit Zack Snyder Explains His Long-Awaited Justice League Ending Tina Turner Is Still Haunted by Her Abusive Marriage Emilio Estevezs True Hollywood Stories Armie Hammer Accused of Rape and Assault Why Black Panther Is Key to Understanding The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 13 Oscar-Nominated Movies You Can Stream Right Now From the Archive: Meet the Real-Life Teen Burglars Who Inspired The Bling Ring Serena Williams, Michael B. Jordan, Gal Gadot, and more are coming to your favorite screen April 1315. In the film, Andr stars as a car wash employee named Chris who has a chance encounter with his crush from high school, Maria (played by Bones actor Michaela Conlin). A knight framed for a crime he didn't commit turns to a shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. That included Jeff Tremaine, the movie's producer, who had previously directed the Jackass movies and Dirty Grandpa. 6,696, This story has been shared 4,945 times. Filmed over the course of four years, the absurdist movieBad Trip is full of shocking encounters, hearty laughs, and a lot of cringeworthy moments. I remember this one woman just looked at Tiffany and ran. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. But for Bad Trip, Andr teamed up with producer Jeff Tremainebest known as the director of the Jackass franchiseto create an actual story connected to his wild pranks. In that interview, he sounded more like the prankster fans are familiar with on screen, regaling me with bonkers details from his upcoming movie about nearly getting stabbed while his penis is caught in a finger trap, or getting fucked by a man in a gorilla suit at the zoo. here. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. This character is not the same character from The Eric Andre Show, he tells me, his eyes lighting up when he talks about the work. In this part-fiction, part-documentary feature, Eric Andre and Lil Rel play friends driving from Florida to New York, so Andre's character can reunite with his high school crush, who has no idea he's coming. 109 lilmissdazzling user4754623822348 Bad Trip! Eric Andre explains how the gorilla prank in his new movie Bad Trip came to be and shares that he got advice on the film from Sacha Baron Cohen. And the prank movie he had poured six years of his life into, Bad Trip, was no longer going to premiere at SXSW as planned. The man chased them out the door with a knife in the scene that just so happened to be the first prank filmed for the movie. Meet Emily Swallow, Stream It or Skip It: 'The Mandalorian' Season 3 on Disney+, Where Pedro Pascal Is Still Daddy (But in a Helmet), 'The Last of Us Part I' Sale: Take 29% Off The Game That Inspired The Show, 'The Last of Us' Episode 7 Recap: Mallrats, Yes, Ellie Has Always Been Gay in 'The Last of Us', Who Plays Riley in 'The Last of Us'? He was really a fascinating guy. Then Chris was going to get him out of the car and yell at him and be like, Drop and give me 20! and all this stuff. Were like, Uh-oh! No mainstream film genre gets less respect than the gross-out comedy not even its artistic cousin, gory horror, which also traffics in gushing bodily fluids, icky ids and gleeful transgression. Skillfully paced, preposterously tasteless, its a sequence that will alienate a portion of its audience, while cementing a cult reputation with another. Bad Trip. Were not cutting to a reaction of a zoo worker like Oh my god! So, we had the Zoo master who worked there corralling the people we were pranking into the prank cage, as it was in that zoo. So, to be able to do that you need to get permission from whatever location youre pranking. You can also change your preferences at any time by clicking Cookie Preferences in the footer of each page. There are some moments when you really worry for Andre, like when he gets drunk and causes havoc in a country bar. In an interview for the Bad Trip press notes, Andre and director Kitao Sakurai explained that the films musical number was filmed in two public locations: Once in Atlanta, and once at a mall in Los Angeles. Then you can kind of see the rest. The way the sequences escalate demonstrates an alertness to structure and rhythm. I dont really know too much about him actually, I only worked with him for one day. The official trailer for the new Eric Andre film has arrived. A shock-and-awe prank film that transplants rom-com hijinks into reality. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. But me and Rel are two Black guys, so how do we turn that trope on its head? Distributor: Netflix Cast: Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, Michaela Conlin Director: Kitao Sakurai Screenwriters: Dan Curry, Eric Andre, Kitao Sakurai Producers: Jeff Tremaine, Eric. Believe it: Eric Andres Netflix movie Bad Trip is about as real as prank movies get. The guy in the barbershop tried to murder us, and he was like, You're lucky I didn't have my gun on me today. And yes we were. Their penises may have been fake. Jackass 4. 'Yellowstone' Return Date Info, Meghan McCain Calls Out Former 'View' Coworker Joy Behar for Her "Evil" East Palestine Comments, Where Is Hoda Kotb? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Ive been working on this thing for, at that time, six years. We were like no, no, no, no, no! When you film in a location, you have to get permission for the location because its a private place of business. Few can pull off transgression so skillfully. Then as makeup is putting fake blood and scratches all over Rel and I, we ran into the flipped car, got in position. When we spoke before, he was promoting his role as one of the evil hyenas in the upcoming Lion King remake, at that time rounding the bases toward another season of his Adult Swim show, with Bad Trip looming in the background. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Of course, not everybody is uncommonly kind to Andre I ask him if hes ever actually thought he might be killed, and, though I guess I shouldnt be surprised. Javier can see the future and he finally knows who the love of his life is. All that work paid off because, by the time we filmed, I felt actually good about my dancing which is typically very embarrassing for me., In an interview for the films press notes, director Kitao Sakurai explained that Haddish was secretly holding a camouflaged safety cable that was secured to the rooftop, in order to make sure Andr didnt really fall. Yes and no. Hed already been told that Netflix had passed on the film. Hes immersed himself in piles of mixology literature, showing me book after book as he sits in front of his giant liquor display. Bad Trip is organized around a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces that incorporate the response of real people not in on the joke. The butt of the joke is usually Andre, and yet the movie is careful to keep the audience on his side. Can we borrow those scissors and you can cut us out of this thing? And the guy was just like, Aw, hell no! And he had like murder rage in his eyes and he looked for a gun. Joshua Encinias March 31, 2021. The 85-year-old Oscar-winner appeared on Turner Classic Movies in strange metatextual interview show. Now, like all of us, he seems, well, uncertain about his artistic future. You gotta get out of here. I had no idea that she would be so good at the hidden camera game. But what if Nimona is the monster he's sworn to kill? After a long, winding journey to its release date, Bad Trip, directed by Andres longtime collaborator Kitao Sakurai and produced by Jackass auteur Jeff Tremaine, finally premiered on March 26, earning warm reviews and quickly becoming Netflixs most-streamed film globally. During the pandemic, Andre has been biding his time getting into cocktails and mixology. All products featured on Vanity Fair are independently selected by our editors. We didnt fake it or cheat it, Sakurai said. But its not easy to be witty about it.. How did that come about? Shes just a natural at taking people for a ride.. And it was a lot of work. It also signals the comeback of the gross-out comedy, a genre in decline, struggling with nerves about social censure and competition from the shock value of real life. Thats where we were a year ago. Each episode, it's a quarter hour show. Oh my god, that car just crashed! Then he ran over, then everybody else in the group is like, What? Then they ran over. But they dont have to. 'Mandalorian' Funko Pops up to 77% Off Baby Yoda and More for Season 3, Who Plays the Armorer in 'The Mandalorian'? Towards the big finale, Howery and Andre crash their car and waddle out of the wreck, disoriented, fighting with each other. Its no surprise that Nathan Fielder and Sacha Baron Cohen, who have used the tools of documentary features to expand the palette of comedy, helped consult. 1,774, This story has been shared 1,634 times. But the scene you'll be telling your friends about is probably the one with the gorilla. And it's especially funny to watch again after knowing some of thewild behind-the-scenes facts about the making of the movie. Advertisement. The guy with the dreadlocks and tie-dye shirt who helped Andr with the car crash was real, toothough Andre told Decider that he fooled Iron Man director Jon Favreau with that one. We want it ASAP! I was shocked at how close the gorilla got to people who still didnt realize it was a human in a suit. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/movies/eric-andre-bad-trip.html, Eric Andre, left, and Lil Rel Howery in a scene from Bad Trip.. Whereas at first I was able to keep him with me by asking about his comedy, his pranks, his new movie, now I feel like Im getting sucked into his gravitational pull. One of the scenes that was real but that did not actually involve the actor was when the car flipped over and caught fire. It resulted in a huge added expense to the budget, though Andre admits that he and Howery were potentially "a little too aggressive" with the prank the first time around. The premise of White Chicks is completely insane. Every reaction to a prank you see in Bad Trip is real. Its like a CIA operation. But the zookeepers were in on the joke. Riding shotgun is Lil Rey Howery as Chris best friend Bud, and on their trail storms a terrifyingly incognito Tiffany Haddish, tatted and volatile, posing as Buds older sister Trina, a sociopathic prison escapee who barges into restaurants brandishing Chris and Buds picture and convinces strangers they might have to testify in a murder trial. As soon as the guy heard Chriss voice, he was like, Oh! Its secondhand cringe comedy. Eric Andr, Lil Rel Howery and Tiffany Haddish are all perfect. That the pranksters are the most imperiled by their hoaxes offers a bruising absolution. Do you have it in you to do another prank movie? I learned a lot. Like, in Bad Trip, when Andre hops into the gorilla pen at the zoo and gets sodomized by a dude in a gorilla suit in front of a crowd of unwitting (and totally real) zoo patrons, hes no longer Tazhes Daffy Duck. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. We did not have a big budget for the movie. So, Rel was like, I quit! For sure.. How long? What if we were on the right side of the tracks and we ended up in a really WASP-y neighborhood? They are deftly integrated into a fictional story rooted in relationships that are given room to develop and fill out. He said: We would do stuff like put stuff on Craigslist, like, New zoo just opened up, free admission, bring a friend and youll get free food! We would entice people like that. When Chris jumped into a cage with a gorilla (really a human in a lifelike gorilla suit), the people taking the zoo tour were all really there on a visit and had no idea what was going on. That scene where an angry store owner ran behind the pair during the Chinese finger trap prank (which involved prosthetics) was actually real. [Laughs.] Which is why "Bad Trip," the long . And yet, the stories he tells me about his life and career are nonetheless every bit as chaotic and unhinged as youd expect. Elsewhere, Dom hosts Eye of the Duck, a podcast about essential movie scenes. Hilarious - and gross - pranks mixed in with the story. A guy is cleaning graffiti off a wall as this prison bus pulls up. Originally, the bit was written for The Eric Andre Show. Howery, left, and Andre. Our whole thing is that theres not a single fake reaction in the movie, Andr said. I have to be just a golden retriever puppy that's just knocking dishes around, you know what I mean?, It wasnt as easy as just letting a golden retriever loose on the Eric Andre set, though. "Bad Trip" opens April 17. Except hes not performing. I was just looking at you like, fuck, I don't want to be in a prank. And I was like, No, I'm just exercising., He tells me that pranking is very anxiety-provoking., So, meditation helps with my anxiety a lot, he says. The goal of /r/Movies is to provide an inclusive place for discussions and news about films with major releases. It really, really works. It all worked out as there was a scheduling conflict with the actor who was originally supposed to be in the role, so Haddish took over. Learn more about our use of cookies and information. In the first scene, his character, Chris, working at a Florida carwash, chats with a customer when he spots in the distance a woman who was his high school crush. Fans will be more interested to hear that Bad Trip is the most bats*** movie of the year, with outrageous stunts involving a Chinese finger trap and the two male leads' (prosthetic) members, a. Very rare, very expensive.. Not everyone is so kind. In Bad Trip, its a little bit inverted. Along the way, Andre, Howery, and Haddish unleash a slew of increasingly unhinged pranks on unsuspecting passersby, including, but not limited to: Andre and Howery getting a Chinese finger trap caught on their penises; Haddish escaping from a bus dressed like a prison inmate; and Andre falling into a gorilla enclosure at a zoo and getting repeatedly sexually assaulted by a gorilla. Parents need to know that Bad Trip, a hidden-camera road trip comedy starring Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish, has language, nudity, sexual references, and violence that make it appropriate only for older teens.The film combines a scripted story involving an impromptu road trip with hidden-camera pranks and scenes involving unsuspecting real-life people. Haddish, a movie star in her own right, called Andre inquiring about the situation and decided right then and there that she wanted to be in the movie. 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