Vince Vaughn On Why Hollywood Shuns His Brand Of R-Rated Comedies

Bruce Haring
·2 min read

Vince Vaughn made his Hollywood bones in R-rated comedies like Wedding Crashers, Old School and Swingers.

He had a hot take on why they’re no longer making them like that on the Hot Ones podcast.

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“They just overthink it,” Vaughn told host Sean Evans “And it’s like, it’s crazy, you get these rules, like, if you did geometry, and you said 87 degrees was a right angle, then all your answers are messed up, instead of 90 degrees. So there became some idea or concept, like, they would say something like, ‘You have to have an IP.’”

Vaughn used the board game Battleship as a meaningless IP example, saying it became a “vehicle for storytelling” just because it had a recognizable name.

However, when he got his start in Hollywood, real life experiences were the stock.

“The people in charge don’t want to get fired more so than they’re looking to do something great, so they want to kind of follow a set of rules that somehow get set in stone, that don’t really translate,” Vaughn said. “But as long as they follow them, they’re not going to lose their job because they can say, ’Well, look, I made a movie off the board game Payday, so even though the movie didn’t work, you can’t let me go, right?’”

Still, Vaughn has hope for the future.

“People want to laugh, people want to look at stuff that feels a little bit like it’s, you know, dangerous or pushing the envelope,” Vaughn said. “I think you’re going to see more of it in the film space sooner than later, would be my guess.

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