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Delivery Man interview with Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders #deliverymanevent
I am working with Disney, Marvel, and Dreamworks as part of this event and they provided the trip in exchange for my coverage. Regardless, all opinions are 100% my own.
The Delivery Man movie came out in theaters last weekend. If you haven't seen it yet, it is one you will want to make plans to see this weekend over the Thanksgiving break! You can read our review of Delivery Man here. I was able to go to the Red Carpet Premiere of Delivery Man, and as part of that experience we were able to do an interview with Chris Pratt (who plays Brett) and Cobie Smulders (who plays Emma). They are both so funny and really genuine. It was a great time! (you can also read about our interview with Vince Vaughn here)
Delivery Man interview with Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders
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QUESTION: How did you first become involved?
COBIE SMULDERS: I'm sure all of you know this but I'll repeat it anyway. It's based on the original film is a French Canadian film by the name of Starbuck and I saw that a couple of months before I even read the script or anything and I really loved the film. I was really moved by the story. I really loved the characters. I really loved that it was Canadian because I'm Canadian as well and then I heard it was being redone and was kind of surprised 'cause I thought it was such a great film. Obviously, it's nice for it to come to America and I was also excited that Kevin Scott who wrote and directed the original was gonna do our version as well and I just thought he had such a strong vision and he had such great storytelling ability that I just knew it was gonna be a good movie. And then I heard Vince was attached and so I started just auditioning. I just went in and auditioned and met with all the guys and convinced them to give me the role.
QUESTION: What was your favorite place to film?
COBIE SMULDERS: In New York. Well, I loved shooting in Brooklyn. We shot in Carol Gardens, we shot in Parks Slope and we shot a lot of our exteriors there. I think my character's apartment was there and a lot of the outdoor scenes that we shot were in Brooklyn as well and I've always wanted to shoot a movie in Brooklyn. I was really, really excited that we were able to because nowadays it's usually like Detroit for Brooklyn and so just to keep the cost down or whatever. I think at one time we were looking at New Orleans but I feel that in his film, the city of New York is such a strong character in our movie and it just adds so much to it, visually and it also just made it so much fun to shoot in. I mean you're in Brooklyn and instead of going to get your coffee at craft service you go to like the local coffee shop and have a cup of coffee. It just made everything just much more fun.
Photo Credit – DreamWorks
QUESTION: How did being a mom/dad affect your role?
COBIE SMULDERS: Well very much. I mean this movie is really all about parenting. It's all about what it takes to be a parent so I automatically connected with that at the same time. I was pregnant in this film, not in life but I had the fake belly on and I remember just crazy emotions that come into play when you're pregnant and I think that one of the things that I know I crave and I think that pregnant women do crave is stability. You know, you're in this situation where especially if it's your first child a lot of things are unknown and in terms of this movie, the character of Emma, she has a very unreliable partner so she's just sort of trying to figure all that out.
CHRIS PRATT: Well for me, my son had just been born when I was doing this movie. I think he was maybe two months old. So for me I wasn't necessarily able to relate to my character's journey as a father in this movie 'cause he's like so overwhelmed with the idea of being a father. I was still finding every little tiny thing endlessly fascinating about my own son. But I did miss him a lot and so like they were moments in the performance where I needed to just stare off into space and think about something that bummed me out. The fact that I was away from him was something that I could go to if I needed to so that was, that was my way out.
Photo Credit DreamWorks – Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, and Vince Vaughn
QUESTION : You had to put on a belly.
CHRIS PRATT : That was fake. That was not me. That was a fake belly.
QUESTION : How did you gain weight?
CHRIS PRATT : Well, really applied all of the principles of losing weight and just reversed them. You know, I had just come off from a movie where I had gotten in good shape. I did this movie, Zero Dark Thirty and I got in good shape for that. In a way like how a lot of people lose weight I just crash dieted and worked out and starved myself until I was skinny. So by the time I was done with that movie my body was really ready to gain weight, rapidly. My wife was in the last third of her pregnancy and so a good 20 pounds of that was probably just sympathy weight and gaining weight alongside her as we indulged in things that we don't normally eat.
And then I had a meeting with the director and I saw the original movie. The actor who played my role in the original, really brilliant actor, and part of the charm was that he was a bit of a bigger guy and I was like this is really great. It's a role where I can gain a lot of weight and I've always wanted to do that. I've done it before once and I really wanted to do it again and see if I could really push it this time and so I did it. Everything you think, you know, minus any guilt. It was really great.
QUESTION : Did you lose it?
CHRIS PRATT : Yeah, I lost it. I wish it could have been immediate but it took a long time. It took about seven months or eight months to lose it.
QUESTION : How long did it take to gain it?
CHRIS PRATT : It took about the same time. I think I was rapped on Zero Dark Thirty in June and so by November I had gained about 70 pounds.
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Vince Vaughn and Chris Pratt in Delivery Man
Q : What was it like working with Vince?
COBIE SMULDERS : I loved working with Vince. He is everything that you would kind of expect him to be. Super funny, super quick. going into this movie I was very intimidated because, you know, he's sort of known for his amazing improv and I am very rusty and so when I came to this film and met him and he was so supportive and he was also very considerate and very charming. Like he really goes out of his way to put everyone at ease on set and set the tone for everybody so it was pretty great.
CHRIS PRATT : I feel the same thing. He is really beloved by people, his fans and people because he just seems real. You know, he seems like a regular guy and I think that he's everything you would really hope that he would if you're a fan of his. He's not like some Hollywood A hole. He's no nonsense when it comes down to doing work. He does work and makes sure everyone around him does good work and that's important as the captain of the ship. But at the same time, charming, caring and polite. He's polite to everyone from the people who are his weight staff, restaurants to fans and strangers on the street who approach him, who like him. he always gives a little bit of himself to people so he's really everything you'd hope he would be.
Chris Pratt and me! 🙂
QUESTION : What's your favorite scene?
COBIE SMULDERS : I had this great seen with Vince at the end of the film, this very long scene where he goes into a speech proposing and then things start unraveling. And that was a really great scene to shoot because it was just this monologue, this never ending monologue and Vince just did a great job with it and for me it was very fun to play off of not only just as an actor but the circumstances being I just delivered a baby and so there's a lot going on. it was a fun thing to play.
Delivery Man opened in Theaters on 11/22! Make sure you go watch it.
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