As Jason Sudeikis’s coke-snorting, kung fu-practicing, pot-bellied new supervisor in Horrible Bosses, which notched an impressive number 2 box office slot last weekend, second to Michael Bay’s 3-D robotstravaganza Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Colin Farrell is a revelation of douchebag assholery, the last person you’d want above you in the workplace food chain. (Well, one of them.) But which former gaming world champion deserves credit for loosely inspiring portions of Farrell’s characterization — and could Farrell portray this muse one day on the big screen?
Director Seth Gordon shared the tale of Farrell’s Horrible Bosses transformation Sunday night at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, where I moderated a post-screening Q&A alongside Digital LA’s Kevin Winston. As it happens, Gordon worked with Farrell to develop the terrible, swaggering, offensive-in-almost-every-way Bobby Pellitt with a little help from his own documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
“When I first met Colin, he wanted to disappear into the character,” Gordon explained to a packed theater. “We talked about a bald cap, we talked about a belly, we had those prosthetics made for him, just to see. That wasn’t scripted, nor was the kung fu. It was just a very dynamic, creative process.”
“When he put those prosthetics on, he literally changed,” he continued. “I’d also shown him a doc I did, The King of Kong, and there’s a guy in the movie who’s got this amazing hair, and who walks with a cockiness that’s frozen in time from the ’80s. I think that really informs the posturing that Bobby does.”
Amazing hair? Surefire cockiness? Gordon could only be talking about one…
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