- [Eric Andre] Even the guy that chased us with a knife,
when we revealed he was like, ah, you guys are hilarious.
Shouldn't do that shit in this neighborhood though. (laughs)
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- (screams) He's got my leg!
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- [Eric Andre] We were really worried that it
wasn't going to work and they were on the hook.
They were just like, Holy shit,
And Rel, you kept being like, Oh my God
he's penetrating my friend or whatever.
To kind of gas them back up.
- He's a human being!
- [Kitao Sakurai] It's a big lift to be
in a performative acting scene while also trying to
influence how the prank is going.
- I like to call them the aunties 'cause they were, like,
they were really, like, the way she was grabbing me.
Like I was trying not to laugh but they were so,
and they were irritated by it. Right?
Like, why you gonna go back there? It was so...
- Oh yeah. When I went to go back to grab my phone,
they were like, why? Some of the aunties were really
like on the hook effective. And then some of them would just
take out their cell phone and they would start like
putting it on their Facebook. Like God bless the
aunties that came to my rescue.
- Everything that we do in the movie it's with real people.
None of the reactions are fake.
- [Eric Andre] The people we're pranking are the real stars
of this movie. 'Cause they have the most charismatic moments
and the most quotable lines.
- That damn thing come back you gon' be through!
- [Eric Andre] You ride it 'till the wheels fall off.
You go to like the person's full limit.
Either you're about to get actually attacked,
but they walked off or you just know you've gotten
every piece of the Buffalo.
- (vacuum whirring)
- Shit! Bullshit!
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- What'd you think was up with the vacuum?
- I was like oh shit! (laughing)
- [Eric Andre] It's one of our favorite pranks.
And we had a special effects team designed the gag.
What I'm really doing, when I go in to clean the guy's car,
I'm secretly hooking my clothing into this little
like pulley system that gets like yanked through the vacuum.
So, but he doesn't see that he thinks I'm just crouched
over cleaning the last little bits of his car.
That's the head. Holy fuck. Why, why, why?
It's like the first scene in the movie.
So it's a lot of setup and we pulled off the gag
and I'm glad we did because I think the last time we did it
the little pulley system tore and like the thing
didn't work and I like awkwardly threw my clothes
off in front of this like Israeli school teacher guy.
And he was like, got his head in his hands, like, please,
please get away from me. I don't know what's going on.
(gagging sounds)
(screams)
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- Are you fucking kidding me? I thought I needed
to help somebody!
- Oh, she was a real nurse. And she came in late.
Like I think I had already fallen off the bar.
She entered. So she was like a prime mark to be pranked.
She had no idea what's going on.
And she was genuinely concerned for me.
And then I just started throwing up all over the place.
- I mean, stuff like that you only do kind of like
one time for real. So there was a lot of vomit that
was on my jacket. (laughing) There was a lot.
But you know what's funny? A lot of the fake stuff
made me really sick. So like the fake vomit made me
wanna throw up. Even the fake shit from the porta pot.
Like I really was like (laughs)
- When we shot it Eric like fell down onto these boxes
that were all preset and somebody rushed in and connected
like the vomit hose to this tube that ran up Eric's body.
There was like a little bit of kink in the tube.
So it wasn't working.
- I had to sneak in the corner and the special effects guy
snuck the hose up my clothing and the fall created
the kink in the hose. I finally got it unkinked.
And it's like (vocal effect) like blasted out.
(screams)
Once you're in the environment and you're interacting
with real people, you have to commit to the premise
of the scene but you have to be able to improvise and pivot.
- [Lil Rel Howery] I think that's the fun part about it,
the movie. I think I enjoyed more than anything
is when we dove into character, right?
- Well, it's kind of like, it's got like the ultimate
method acting, you know, like you're, you're really there.
'Cause we're, we're making people believe usually
that something crazy is going on or
if somebody is in danger or there's like a fight.
And then at the end of that to be like, Hey, you know what?
We're actually shooting a movie and you're a movie star now.
Like most people are kind of stoked on that.
- Usually the people that are the angriest
are so relieved when you tell them it's a prank.
The guy with a knife was angry,
but also the golfer was angry.
He like chased after us with a golf club. (laughs)
- [ Lil Rel Howery ] He went from zero to 100 so fast,
I mean he just lost it. Like he realized
what he was helping. (laughs)
- Watch Bad Trip, now on Netflix.
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