Was Smoochy based on any particular type of character?
He was, I had a lot of people in mind. I mean, Adam Resnick’s script was just hilarious and an amazing percentage of it is still in the film. For the blistering pace of the movie and for what may seem very improvisational, an amazing amount of it was in his original script. But, I worked with him a little bit on it. There was always the crusader kind of element of Smoochy and there were references to the fact that he didn’t like someone selling sugar to kids, but then Adam and I kind of took that and and pushed it a little further out into a complete commitment. Into like, you know, everything that Smoochy is now. We had a joke at one point about how Armani has made him all kind of clothes and we got Armani to make a whole bunch of hemp suits. Was it fun not to be the wild and crazy guy? Yeah, actually I thought Danny wanted me to play Rainbow Randolph. When I read the script I figured Adam Sandler will be Smoochy or one of those guys. Danny and I were in Montreal making competing “Hei
