How fun was it to play Il Duce, a complete badass, in The Boondock Saints?
Oh, I loved that. It’s brilliant. Being a badass is wonderful because badasses do interesting things. Nice guys are just nice. They go to work and feed their family, but a badass can kill people they don’t like with a nine millimeter. It just gives life that little slant. That happy little slant of your fantasies. It’s a wonderful world to live in for ninety minutes. Recently you got to work with Jack Black and Jason Segel in the upcoming Gulliver’s Travels. Having been in comedy for many years, do younger comedic actors ever come to you for advice? Oh no. God no. And I have such respect for those guys. Jason Segel, he’s got to be some kind of genius, the way he can write. Even on the set, during a break he was writing a song for another movie–a splendid song. He’s a terrific guy. And there’s Jack. Imagine me giving Jack Black advice, I mean, good god. I just had the best time with those two. We just laughed the whole time. And I’m really glad they were so nice because there was a lot
