Movieline caught up with Will Forte this week in Park City, where he was at Sundance to support Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim?s absurdist midnight offering Tim & Eric?s Billion Dollar Movie. In the film, Forte plays the uptight, moustachioed owner of a sword store in a mall that bumbling filmmakers Tim and Eric have taken over following the epic failure of their brush with Hollywood. Forte compared the more restricted sensibilities of his gig on Saturday Night Live to working within the madcap, surrealist stylings of the cult duo.
Forte, like Billion Dollar Movie co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, also appeared on Heidecker and Wareheim?s Comedy Central sketch show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! He recalled his first time on the series, filming a bit called the Lazy Horse Mattress Ad.
?I just did exactly what Tim and Eric asked me to do -- that was the first time I ever worked with these guys, and it was the best experience,? Forte remembered. ?It was so fun, because it?s this advertisement for a mattress store and in between there?s this crazy dream, and for the crazy dream part they just turned the camera on and said ?Go nuts for a while!??
?They?d turn the camera off for four or five minutes, say ?Try this, do this here?? They were so good about giving you direction but also giving you a ton of freedom. It was one of the best times I?ve ever had ? it was so therapeutic to just be able to go nuts for a while. You don?t get to do that very often.?
His more famous gig on Saturday Night Live, on the other hand, is understandably a much different process. ?I love SNL, but it?s different. It?s got…
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