Was it fun to do the over the top scenes or was it hard to know where that boundary was?

Malin Akerman: I loved it. It is quite over the top for most of the parts. You don’t want to go too far or push too hard or else it won’t be believable and you do want to make sure that you sympathize with her.

Peter Farrelly: Part of the actor’s job though is to go over the top because when we’re making the movie we have a sense of where we’re going, but we we’re not positive. So you push them all limits. You push them this way, this way, that way and then get over it and come back again so when you get into the editing room it’s like having all different kinds of colors and you can try them all out. The worst thing you can do is get there and realize you should have gone further. So basically you try to pop that ceiling where you know she’s over the top. That’s what good actors do. They’re not afraid to embarrass themselves. You don’t have to nail it every time. That’s why we try to keep a happy set where you’re not embarrassed to try it because if it’s stiff, everybody’s nervous. You want to nail it every time. We don’t want you to nail it every time. We want you to nail it and then push it and push it even further so that we know perfectly where it is. We see it on the tape. That’s the one. That’s the one. I don’t know when I’m filming. I kinda know it, but I’m not positive.

Malin Akerman: There were a few times when Peter would come up and go, ‘I want you to go even further with him.’ ‘Really further?’

Peter Farrelly: I wasn’t sure if I needed it, but I wanted to have it because you don’t know.

There’s a lot of people who think women particularly beautiful women are funny. I would say you and your brother have disproved that theory. When did you and Bobby starting writing strong comedic roles for women?

Peter Farrelly: Well a funny thing happened on ‘Dumb and Dumber.’ That was our first movie. We were reading actresses for the Lauren Holly role. Mariel Hemingway said, ‘that’s a piece of shit. This is garbage. You’ve got nothing here. Why would I want to play this women? There’s nothing. They guys get all the jokes. I’m just a nothing. You’ve got to punch this up.’ She didn’t get the part. I remember thinking she’s right. You know what, we didn’t do that. There’s the traditional playing off the woman as the straight man thing, but you can also try to give the woman along the way more of a reality. We write better for guys. We’re guys. That’s what I write better for. I know guys. I know the way they think. You have to put yourself in the role of the women because by giving them humor you make them more real. You just get better at it as you go along. You remind yourself to try harder for that role because you do tend to get lazy when you’re writing female roles especially when they’re beautiful. You think that’s enough and it’s not.

Did you have the snowball scene in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ at that point?

Peter Farrelly: Yeah, but as written, it was very unfunny. The studio was like, ‘what’s that scene?’ ‘Uh he throws a snowball at her face.’ ‘Why?’ ‘We’re not sure why. He’s an idiot.’ ‘But why would a guy throw a snowball at her face?’ ‘Because he’s a moron.’ In fact, the crew the day we shot that, it was late in the day. We’re tired and it’s starting to get dark. So we said okay let’s do this thing really fast and it’s not funny. He picks up a snowball and throws it. We said, ‘okay Lauren get down and put some snow on your face.’ We were like, ‘what the fuck is this?’ It’s not until you cut it together and get into the editing room and find the perfect sound effect which by the way it wasn’t until he hit her in the face we tried like 50 sound effects before we came up with Henry Aaron hitting his 715th homerun. It was the crack of the bat. Someone pulled it in for some reason and boom that was the sound. It sounded hysterical. The funny thing is about that is that when we testing that, and this is the great thing about testing movies, the audience tells us how far we can go. When we were testing it, he threw the snowball, hit her in the face and the audience goes crazy. She goes down and comes up and has blood under her nose. That’s how we had it originally. No more laughter. She’s hurt. Not funny. Dies, the rest of the scene. We go in and get rid of the blood. We test again and now she comes up with just snow on her face. We had another minute of laughter. So people say, ‘how far do you go?’ We go as far as the audience lets us go because we test and they say ‘don’t do that, do this, don’t do that, do this.’

Malin can you talk about Watchmen and what’s your take on Silk Spectre?

Malin Akerman: This is a really cool role. She's sort of the psychology of the film because she's the only woman in the "Watchmen" aside from the previous "Watchmen." She is a femme fatale. She is a kick ass fighter. I think she sort of carries the emotion of the film because she is the only woman amongst all of these men. And they're going through sort of not being the watchmen anymore and dealing with that as well as trying to figure out who is trying to kill them off. It's a really, really, really well written script. It's a really great role that I'm so excited to do because it's so opposite from what I just did. It's a wonderful novel and it’s very true to the novel, so if you're familiar with the novel that's it.

When do you start filming?

Malin Akerman: They've already started this week actually. My character starts October 15th.

How long are you shooting for?

Malin Akerman: Until February. It's a long shoot.

Are you ready for that process with the green screen and all of that?

Malin Akerman: There's not that much green screen because it's very real. We're not superheroes or anything like that. We just fight. We fight crime. There's only one scene on Mars that I think will be a green screen. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to trying new things. 

What's your rehearsal process been like for this? Have you been training for the part?  

Malin Akerman: It is not fun. I've been training for a month and a half and I still don't see the results. I have no muscles. I'm starting to get aggravated. It's actually been a lot of fun because we've been doing a lot of fight training so you go in and you have these amazing fighters that are doing this and they show you what to do. You try to do it and you look like a ballerina trying to do karate and it's so hard. It looks a lot easier than it is. Trust me. I've got a few more months of training I think.

Are you prepared for the fans to go crazy over this film and your character?

Malin Akerman: It's exciting. I don't ever feel like you're really ready for it. I just hope we do it justice.

Are fans starting to approach you about the film?

Malin Akerman: Not yet. I haven't been out.