How did you and Jake Kasdan (Walk Hards director/co-writer) collaborate on the script?
Me and Jake outlined the movie on the phone. Every night after working on Knocked Up, I would call Jake and we’d spend two hours on the phone laughing and giggling about new scene ideas. We would say, “Oh, we gotta do him in a bad variety show in the ’70s like The Sonny & Cher Show, when he’s lost his muse and he’s just covering other peoples’ songs,” and “We gotta do a sex scene where it’s too animalistic, when they finally have sex and they’re kissing and beating the crap out of each other at the same time.” And we just listed 100-200 scene ideas, or ideas for different styles. And then at some point you have to sit down and go through it and circle everything that you think is actually doable. There are so many people that you can have fun with, but there’s only so much time. One of the recurring jokes in Walk Hard is the naked guy, who appears (or at least his genitalia appears) at various points throughout the movie. What was the casting process like for that role? Jake had extras
