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"Miss March" Interview

Writers/Directors and stars Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore sat down to discuss their new film, "Miss March." Despite being their first big-screen adventure, you may recognize them from TV’s The Whitest Kids You Know. The sketch comedy show is now in its third season and can be seen on IFC.

How did you become involved in the project?

Trevor: Fox came to us with the script. They wanted us to do it, but we weren’t crazy about it; a road trip sex comedy? We thought that we could rewrite it and adapt it to our sensibility, more along the lines of the TV show. The goal was to make a road trip movie that we would like, for fans of the show.

How much input did you have on rewriting the script?

Zach: There’s nothing left from the script. The only thing that was in there, was that that there was a coma, I wake up, there was a girlfriend and Playboy.

Trevor: But he (Zach) didn’t get woken up by being hit by a bat, the whole Candace plot line wasn’t there, the “Horsed*ck.mpeg,” the lesbians, the firemen…

Speaking of the firemen, you poke fun at quite a few people (including yourselves) in the film, but firemen? How come?

Trevor: Rightfully so, after 9/11, firemen became heroes; patron saints of America, untouchable figures. We thought, why don’t we flip that and make them the bad guys, you aren’t going see that in a movie right now.

Did you really get to film inside of the Playboy Mansion?

Zach: At first we started out without Playboy and cast someone else as Heff. We tested the movie and people really wanted to see Heff, so we brought it to Playboy, they liked the movie and agreed to do it. We went there and shot for a day, we shot in his study in the real mansion.

My favorite scene of the film is featured in the trailer. You are about to make love to a woman in a motor home and she goes flying out the window. It was hilarious!

Trevor: That was one of the scenes we were most looking forward to shooting. It was one of the most elaborate as well. We had to build the back of that bus on hydraulics. We had a guy pulling levers that made the room shoot to the right, and she had ropes attached to her and stunt guys yanking her making sure she didn’t hit her head on the window on the way out. There was a specific way we wanted her to bounce out the window. Getting that took a few tries.

Are you happy with how your first film turned out?

Trevor: We were lucky to have great producers, we had an amazing DP. He was incredible, he made our little $6 million movie look more than a $60 million movie.

Zach: We were lucky to get everything we wanted.

Fox Searchlight’s Miss March opens on Friday, March 13.

By Randy Montgomery, as printed in AZ Weekly Magazine (3/12/09)

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