Is there a lot of prank playing on a Farrelly brothers movie set?
Michelle Monaghan: They’re just so goofy. It’s just like adolescence all the time! I kind of think they’re perpetual 15-year-olds with hearts of gold. We’d have a weekly egg toss contest. There was 20 bucks in a pot, everyone brought out dozens and dozens of eggs and you start tossing and then pretty soon you have a whole city block’s worth of people chucking me a raw egg. Everyone was just getting covered in egg. There’s actually an art to catching the egg – you should always throw it under-handed and then catch it by cupping your hands and going with the momentum of the egg. There’s two big winners, of course, and there could be as much as $500 to $700 involved. Q. So who was the best tosser? Michelle Monaghan: Peter Farrelly is the best tosser! [Laughs] He really was. But this whole job literally felt like a paid vacation. I mean, we were down in that beautiful resort in Mexico for months – my folks came down, their families came down, it was just friends and family. We were up at 5
