The 'Super Mario Bros. Movie' star tells The Hollywood Reporter about coming up with the idea for his film's silent character nearly a decade ago and shares what Danny DeVito rented to him for a dollar.
“There was a real magic at making the show in the first three, four or five seasons that can’t be recaptured because we [now] know the characters so well, and we know the show so well,” Day tellsprocess as well: “That unknowingness is a really wonderful place to be.”
The series features Mac , Charlie and Dennis , plus Dennis’ sister, Sweet Dee , as the self-centered foursome running the Philly bar Paddy’s Pub. The comedy began developing a cult following in its first season, but concerns about ratings put a second season in doubt until the network suggested adding a bigger name: Danny DeVito as Frank, father to Dennis and Dee. The move helpedshine; the show is now TV’s longest-running live-action sitcom and is set to launch season 16 on June 7.
Charlie Day and Danny DeVito in a 2016 episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’ THR declared in 2006 that the addition of DeVito “opens up great new possibilities.”As Day explains, any fears that inserting an established star like DeVito could hurt the project have proven unfounded: “We’d spent two to three years developing this very handheld, gritty thing. So you start to wonder, ‘Is it going to ruin what the show is?’ And, of course, it was the complete opposite.
And then showed it to a few friends but didn’t really do anything with it until years later. Then I started doing the circuit with it probably a year or two later. It wasn’t until 2017 that I got together with [producer] John Rickard — we had just releasedtogether. I hadn’t thought of John because he’d done big studio movies. He was one of the few people that I bounced the script off, and I knew that he loved it. But what I knew and loved about John was he got stuff done.
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