we got a dead body on our beach
that's not our job
my gut says there's some bad sh*t
going on over there and my balls say we
need to check it out
my balls say you should take easy right here
why do your balls sound like three year girls?
I don't know man that's just how they talk but they're wise
It was the opportunity to create to have a
something that was very successful and
try and make a movie that that really
played tp today's audiences in a cool way
in a sexy way fun way
I think that we wanted to push the envelope be able to
try anything not be restricted and you
know finding you know raunchy comedy in the film
it seemed like a fun project is going to be big, you know you got The Rock in it
Zac Ephron who I've worked with before
um yeah it just seemed like it was going to be a fun project
they cast me
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you're welcome
Good answer
I was like "oh no do I really want to do that?"
no I mean you get an appointment for the
movie version of a show that was at one
point the most popular television show
on on TV
and they're making it a comedy and you're like "yes please"
yeah and you see that Dwayne and Zac
are attached and it's kind of a
no-brainer to want to want to be part of
that group right?
yeah
and then you read the script you're like "alright now I have to have this"
it's R-rated raunchy
comedy so to be able to you know turn
what was into a dramatic TV show into
that is really cool
um the fact that I was playing the villain
I love that my character with such a
departure from from what the world of
Baywatch is and then the further away
she went as a character the funnier it
was you know she wears heels on the
beach she wears Couture she has a stool
that comes out for her you know
her henchman do her dirty work and she
can kill someone just because they ask
for a raise you know those are things
that that the absurdity of it made her
so fabulous for me that I was hooked when
as soon as I read it
I read the script and I
just found myself loving it a lot more
than I expected to you know I read it
with an open mind because Beau Flynn
the producer is somebody I trust
completely and and I otherwise might not have
ever opened it but because of him I read
it took it seriously and then loved that
the movie did not take itself so
seriously that it poked a little bit of
fun at the show there's a little bit of
a wink and we push that further as we
worked on the script a little bit more to
you know get to get to a place where we
had a good balance of action and comedy
and comedy that was fresh and and poked
fun at itself
at first the idea it sounded very interesting but then after sitting down
with with with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
and seeing his enthusiasm and being
explained kind of like what the take
would be on how self-effacing it would
be and how self-aware it would be and how
much fun we were gonna have may have kind of reinventing
these characters and it just sounded
like a lot of fun
you know I've been part of successful franchises in the
past been very fortunate right GI Joe
and certainly Fast and Furious so I know
the dynamic and the model and I felt like
if we can take some of that model from
for example like a Fast and Furious and
connect it to a Baywatch and utilize it
in Baywatch. Beach, sexiness, diverse
casts but the secret weapons that I
always felt we had was the rated-R
comedy you know and I think when you
have a rated-R platform and we went
for it hard rated R it could go one of
two ways we could either go like a
sideways sh*t-show or it could turn into
Baywatch and I think it turned into
Baywatch nicely