Interview: ‘Whitest Kids’ Talk Shit About ‘Miss March’

Posted by Kevin Carr (kevin@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 12, 2009

As I sat down in the suite of Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore, two of the “Whitest Kids You Know” on IFC, to discuss their upcoming film Miss March, there was one thing that I wanted to say to them.

“Thank you for the breasts,” I said.

“No problem,” Trevor replied, then turned to his co-writer/co-director/co-star Zach and launched into a discussion of exactly how many breasts there were in the movie, which features the two of them as high school buds traveling across country to find one’s girlfriend who has become a Playboy Playmate.

The final verdict was twelve breasts. “That means six girls,” Trevor added.

Not to let the subject drop, I had to ask about the lead actress Raquel Alessi, who plays Cindi the Playmate, who never gets naked in the film.

“I don’t think she wanted to be,” Trevor said. “In some ways, I think it’s almost good that you don’t see her naked.”

Zach added, “Part of me thinks that in the rules of the universe of the movie, she shouldn’t be naked. I can’t really explain it. It’s a good question.”

Some might find this misogynistic approach to the interview out of place, but considering the nature of the film – a raunchy comedy which Zach says was inspired by Raising Arizona and Trevor conceives as “a dirty live-action Duck Tales” – it’s appropriate. It’s Playboy, after all.

And that in itself is a bold move, considering that Zach and Trevor set out to make Miss March without the support of Playboy.

“We made all these fake playboys. it said playboy but the logo was a little off,” Trevor said, explaining why the Playboy magazine featured in the film was digitally replaced with an authentic issue. “Originally, we wanted to do the movie without Playboy’s involvement because we didn’t know how much they would micromanage the script or how serious they wanted to take their image.”

In fact, Robert Wagner played Hugh Hefner in the original cut of the film. However, test audiences didn’t buy him as Hef, particularly because the magazine mogul is now so well known to the younger generation because of the “Girls Next Door” show.

Fortunately, for Zach and Trevor, when Hef saw the project, he approved. And he even signed on for a cameo role. “When you first meet him,” Zach said, “It’s cool. He’s done so much. He’s had such an impactful life.”

Although as impactful as Hef has been on western culture, he didn’t quite reach Trevor as a child. I asked if he, like his character in the film, was a Playboy fanatic… or was he more into Hustler, like myself.

“I was into Swank,” Trevor admitted proudly. “I like the c-shots.”

And with that, we moved on from boobs to poop, as I recalled a somewhat “explosive” scene in the film. Because what would a raunchy comedy be without a shot of titanic diarrhea due to muscle atrophy from being in a coma for four years.

Trevor let on with the secret formula: “The weekend before, Zach ate nothing but oatmeal and warm beer, and tried to keep it in until we shot, and then just let it go. We had one take for it, and it was awesome.”

“I nailed it,” Zach added.

With such subject matter, it’s no surprise that Miss March was delivered an R rating by the MPAA, but that was the idea from the beginning.

“Hard R was the studio’s intention and our intention,” Zach said. “We were lucky enough to be on the same page.”

“They’d seen our show,” Trevor added. “So they knew getting into it that we wouldn’t be doing it PG-13.”

After the release of Miss March, Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore will be moving on to make a Whitest Kids You Know movie.

Miss March opens nationwide on Friday, March 13.

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