Frosty Interview Josh Duhamel – One of the Stars of ‘Turistas’
12/1/2006
Posted by Frosty
You should get a story credit.
It's different. It's a different story, but it's kind of the same thing. But yeah, I've thought about...I wouldn't mind directing one. But who knows? Maybe if we get another year, maybe they'll let me do one next year. But eventually, I would definitely like to direct. With the holidays coming up, is there a gift you're hoping to get this year? Another really good film would be nice. (laughs) I'd love to do something really cool. But no, I feel very lucky. I feel very fortunate for the situation I'm in right now. I don't really ask for much more. Just the typical answer. No, not really. No toys? I would like to get one of those remote control things that you can walk in the house and push one button and all your lights and stuff come on. That's about the one thing that I would really like to have. Like I don't know if you ever saw Tad Hamilton, but he walked in [claps hands] and everything turned on. Something like that. (laughs)  Any holiday plans? Yeah, I'm going to my girlfriend's for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day. Then she's coming with me to my mom's for 26th and 27th, and my dad's 28th and 29th, and we're all flying to Vegas. It's cool because she wasn't going to go to this show in Vegas. She was just going to stay at my dad's. She's like, "No, I've already made plans, I'm going to my boyfriend's, I'll be in Minnesota." They call back a week later and say, "Well how about this? We'll fly him, his family, all to Vegas, we'll put them up, we'll fly them all back private jet if you come do this." And she calls me, she says, "What do you think about this?" I go, "Give me a second." I called my dad, he's like, "Hell yeah!" (lots of laughter) How rocking is a Ferguson Christmas? Oh, her family's fun. Her family is a lot of fun. They're all coming over for Thanksgiving, too. Are you going to travel to the Philippines to see Apple’s show? Oh, I would love to, but no. Is that what he's doing? Yeah. For the holidays? Yeah, for the holidays. Oh, he's like Elvis over there, I guess. I've never been over there, but I guess they just like mob him. Being on the Culver Lot, have you gone over to Deal or No Deal or 1 vs. 100? Oh, we see them all the time. I've been in there. I took my mom and some people from back home over there last week just to go. I haven't actually watched the taping. I think as a cast, we're going to go onto 1 vs. 100 to promote our show for the night. I think this week we're going to do that. So yeah. There's a lot of stuff going on over there these days. They're shooting Rush Hour 3 over there right now, too. Michael Bay is known as a prankster on set. Did he get you? Did he get me? No. He didn't get me, but he did do some stuff to people. (laughs) It's like he's known for just being like...He wants everything sort of at his fingertips all the time. Like we're downtown LA and he's got people going from one end of the street to the other end of the street, crew was like pushing carts and getting cameras. "Okay, shoot this here, go here. I want to get this here." End of the night, he's like, "Okay everybody, we need to get this last shot down here! I want A and B cameras down here! We're going to be shooting this way! I want to light it like this! Get everything lit, we're going to be shooting...Set up the stuff to come down here. The explosion's going to come down here. Blah, blah, blah." So they're like, "Fuck, we've got 15 minutes, 20 minutes left before we're wrapping." And everybody gets down there, [and he says,] "Just kidding! That's a wrap!" Like he thinks it's hilarious, and the crew so wanted to kill him! (laughs) He's great though, I gotta say. He was a pleasure to work with. For the most part. Have you seen the robots yet? I have. I've seen a little bit of it cut together. It's wicked. It's going to be cool. They say it's going to be more photo-real than any sort of stuff of this type that's been done. So we'll hope! Take care.

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