'Austin Powers' crystallized satire for millennials now making their own films and series, writes roxana_hadadi
-esque included in “Sandy Says” was as he and Miranda originally intended, Bishop says, except for one thing: the moment Luis shows up to Group Hug wearing a dinosaur costume.
The script first had Luis in an Austin Powers getup — like the various velvet suits and frilly shirts he wears in the trilogy — before what Bishop bemusedly describes as “a six-month legal battle” between Hulu owner Disney and Warner Bros., which owns the rights to thecould depict the character’s likeness.
came not from the writers’ room, but from an on-set imitation, Youssef says. On a late night of filming, as Youssef, co-star Shadi Alfons, and the rest of the cast and crew pounced on a hot meal, Alfons surprised everyone with a Scottish-accented “Get in my belly!” Fat Bastard impression.
The episode is mostly a thematically dark one, with Laith Nakli’s Uncle Naseem tumbling into paranoia, May Calamawy’s Dena lying to her parents Maysa and Farouk , and Maysa and Farouk fighting over the troubled state of their marriage. A family dinner at a local Chinese restaurant is strained by those resentments and Ramy’s absence.
That silliness briefly punctures the group’s otherwise dourness and allows for a line of dialogue that Youssef would give to cinephile Farouk and make the episode’s tagline: “is classic cinema.” Until Uncle Naseem pulls a gun on the table and ruins the whole vibe,adorer Shadi over a sex- and drugs-filled film franchise is pretty adorable. “Shadi is so funny. He really was making us laugh, and he kept it going between takes,” Youssef says. “That scene was such a monster to shoot.
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