Actor/Comedian extraodinaire, Val Kilmer doesn’t make any excuses about the new MacGruber movie – he says he knows the movie’s bad, and is proud of it, too. MacGruber is Saturday Night Live’s latest skit-turned-movie attempt (any body remember Wayne’s World?) and is sure to bring heads to the theaters. What’s not sure is what those heads will be saying on their way out of the theaters. In a recent interview, Val Kilmer seemed to express pleasure in SNL’s tongue-in-cheek-style movie and hopes audiences will get it:
Val Kilmer has no qualms about the quality of “MacGruber,” writer-director Jorma Taccone’s live-action adaptation of Will Forte’s long-running “Saturday Night Live” sketch about a clueless “MacGuyer”-style special ops agent.
“I’m proud of how bad this film is,” said Val Kilmer, who plays a nuclear warhead-possessing villain named Dieter Von Cunth (yes, the film is that kind of movie, and is appropriately rated R). “In fact, I can’t believe I just called it a film. It’s a two-hour skit.”
Though not a “TV guy,” Val Kilmer says that he was sold on starring in the film on the basis of the script table-read (”no comparison, the funniest read-through I’ve ever been to”) and the conviction of stars Will Forte and Kristen Wiig.
“They’re both in their own class, when it comes to subtle comedy, and in terms of classlessness, MacGruber is truly one of the dumbest characters ever,” Val Kilmer said. “I guess there are those guys from ‘Dumb and Dumber — but that’s silly dumb. This is desperate, realistic dumb.”
Val Kilmer adds that he only had one concern: whether there was enough of a set-up in the film so that audiences unfamiliar with either the MacGruber character or the Richard Dean Anderson action drama “MacGyver” (the basis of the SNL sketch) would understand what was going on.
“The writers were absolutely convinced that the film didn’t need any kind of intro to sell the story, and it’s their world, you just have to trust the director sometimes,” said Val Kilmer. Luckily, he loved the final result. “The writers challenged each other to be as vile as possible, and they succeeded.”
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