PEÑA: I was just a big fan of the original. What made you want to get involved with Vacation? It’s not quite comedy, but I do try to put a lot of humor into the things that I’m doing. It almost seems like the humor comes in a little bit more naturally that way. The only thing that I found that’s good is just to work on the scenes. I remember one of my managers, back in the day, who I don’t work with anymore said, “Mike, you’re not funny.” I had to work at it and work at it to try to get my own thing and find what’s funny for me. PEÑA: I have to work on that quite a bit. Do you find that comedy comes really naturally for you, or is that something you’ve worked really hard at? Since Observe and Report, you’ve really shown that you can do comedy. It didn’t feel like you could joke around. I usually joke around, especially on set. What was it like to shoot the scenes where you had to give Last Rites and when you had to perform the exorcism? Was that totally surreal? What does that bring up to him, when he’s doing the exorcism? And it was a whole other hell that he had to go through. He also seems like he’s a little bit of a newbie, and he doesn’t know exactly how all of this will go down. They have to wear whatever they have to wear, but they’re just normal guys and they’re there to talk to people. PEÑA: I just had the simple idea that’s based on the priest that I had, when I was in school. Was this a character that was fully on the page, or were you able to give some input into who he is? I really liked those kind of movies, and I wanted to be a part of one of those kinds of movies. I used to love those movies, back in the day, like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13 th, Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining. I just wanted to be a part of something that’s a horror movie that scares you.
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