Ok, so yesterday the poster for Judd Apatow’s upcoming stand-up dramedy/relationships film, “Funny People,” people came out yesterday, right?
Well, the movie also launched itself a very early myspace page which confirms the addition of two new casting people who have joined the film, The Wu Tang Clan abbot, the RZA and Human Giant comedian, Aziz Ansari (a shot of one of the newer additions, Aubrey Plaza, Seth Rogen’s alt-comic love interest in the film is also included). We saw them in the IMDB credits recently, but we wondered if a) the info was correct and b) if their appearances were just tiny cameos, but they are listed up there along with the main actors in the film, Rogen, Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann, Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill, and Eric Bana.
Does this mean that RZA is gonna compose some beats? Or are people finally realizing the cat has comedic skills. Ansari is definitely funny, and he’s a great little addition to the cast, no doubt as one of the stand-up comics. IMDB also says that Andy Dick play himself in the film and as we expected, Apatow’s two daughter Iris and Maude are both in the film (no doubt as Mann and Bana’s two little girls).
Lastly, we heard that Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen had both been losing weight for various upcoming roles (ok, we’ll admit it, we perused Us Weekly), but man, this picture of Hill on the “Funny People” myspace page looks totally fucked up. Did he get work done? He looks like an alien, weird. Here’s a video clip from the page featuring Apatow himself, cause their also holding open-casting calls on the Myspace page as well, but that’s honestly of little interest to us.
