It`s not like some movies where you`re following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It`s these guys. We`re not cutting back to anybody else.
In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That`s not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It`s a different point in both our lives.
In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.
Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.
