ComingSoon spoke to Poolman director Chris Pine and star Danny DeVito about Pine's directorial debut comedy movie.
ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Poolman director Chris Pine and Danny DeVito, who stars alongside Pine in the actor’s directorial debut. Out in theaters on May 10, 2024, the“Poolman tells the story of Darren Barrenman , a native Los Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live,” says the synopsis for the.
Tyler Treese: Chris, you have shown such great range lately, especially the D&D movie. You got to show every bit of you and fans love you for these blockbusters and these action movies. So what’s been most rewarding about really getting to show a different side of yourself, especially with Poolman and doing this very offbeat comedy and this like love letter to LA all wrapped up in one?: I think it’s just rewarding to do something that is all mine.
Danny, you’re not just a great actor, you’re also a very talented director yourself. So I was curious if during filming of Poolman, did you and Chris ever talk about directing any? How were those conversations?: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We talked from the very beginning when I read the script. I loved it. I thought it was a great character to play from the very first rehearsal when we had to go through all the pandemic and wait for all these things to come together.
Actually, what’s great about it was that he was very free as a director to allow the actors to riff off and try things. You never felt any kind of constraints in things, and let us go have a lot of fun with him. I feel like that’s what also internally he was going through with the movie from running behind the camera to the front of the camera. So it felt really good. We did talk a lot, yeah.
Chris, my favorite scene in Poolman was The Golden Girls reenactment. Just such a fun idea. Are you a big Golden Girls fan? How was that born?: I like The Golden Girls, but my writing partner’s a huge Golden Girls buff and had just actually watched the entirety of the series and picked it apart. Like he was writing a PhD on comedy writing.
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