'Step Brothers': Red Carpet Chatter

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Were you excited to work together again? Was it as good as the first time? Better?
WILL FERRELL: That is how this whole thing came to be. We had so much fun doing Talladega Nights together. We immediately started talking about what we were going to do next. The three of us — Adam [McKay, director], John, and I — have a certain chemistry that is hard to find. We just continued the same jubilation of the first time over to this set.
JOHN C. REILLY: Yeah it still feels like the first time. Just like the song says. It still felt good and right. Actually, I can't say that. I wish I could.
FERRELL: Now I'm embarrassed. Maybe I exaggerated. REILLY: I wish I could say that. For me, it was more like I met them on Talladega and it was successful, so I'm like, ''Oh brother, they think I'm loving it. Now I'm going to be stuck with these two barnacles forever.'' No, it's actually a great working relationship. It is a rare and special thing just to find one person that thinks the same things are funny.

Do you put pressure on yourselves to outdo your last film together? Do you think there is more pressure from outside sources since Talladega did so well?
REILLY: Oh yeah. There's a lot of money on the line.
FERRELL: Yeah, a lot of money on the line, a lot of jobs at stake. If this fails, I think Judd Apatow's career is over, for instance.

[To Reilly] Would Will make a good stepbrother?
REILLY: Yeah. We find the same stuff amusing and he is a great guy. It was harder to pretend that I didn't like him than it was to do the scenes where we got along. We would just come to set and amuse ourselves.
FERRELL: I just want to clarify that he doesn't mean that kind of ''amuse ourselves.'' I know what kind of dirty-minded people read Entertainment Weekly. This is a family film.

If you could choose any grown man to be your stepbrother who would it be?
REILLY: I think I'm gonna go with Patrick Duffy, Man from Atlantis.

Dare we ask why?
FERRELL: Do you even need to ask why? He said Patrick Duffy. Self-explanatory.

So would you do it again? Will there be another Ferrell-Reilly co-production?
REILLY: In a Chicago minute, which is a little slower than a New York one, but still pretty fast.
FERRELL: Yeah. Like he said before, he is stuck with me and Adam now. We are doing everything in our power to make people forget he was once an Oscar-nominated actor.