Vince Vaughn Knows Why Hollywood Is No Longer Making Adult Comedies

“The managers are more concerned about not getting fired than about doing something great,” theorizes the actor from Back to School.

On sale for the Apple+ series Bad Monkeywhich he shares the bill with Natalie Martinez, Michelle Monaghan or Zach Braff, Vince Vaughn made a small appearance on the show Hot Ones. Between two spicy chicken wings, the fifty-four-year-old comedian took the opportunity to highlight how Hollywood produced adult comedies in its early days, and how these productions have been ousted from the studios' agenda today.

Vince Vaughn knows adult comedies. In 1996, after a few supporting roles, he appeared in the second film of Doug Liman, Swingers. He then went on to have a string of popular and R-rated hits: Made, Back to college, Dodgeball! Not even bad!, Serial party animals, Breaking… and this, until the 2010s with Jet Lagfor example. Since then, war films, thrillers, and comedies, but nothing that comes close to its glory days of 20 years ago.

For Vince Vaughn, if comedies R-Rated have become the rare bird of the Los Angeles hills, it is because of the new strategy of the studios.

“They think too muchexplains the actor to Sean Evans. It's crazy, there are all these rules. It's like doing geometry, and we started with the principle that a right angle is 87 degrees. From then on, all the answers are wrong. From that point on, the concept of intellectual property came along. They said: 'You have to start from an intellectual property'.”

According to him, today the intellectual property motivating the script of a film could be a game like Battleshipwhen yesterday, a script was based on an experience, an emotion, a situation. And all this has become systemic:

“Managers are more concerned about not getting fired than they are about doing something great, so they follow a set of rules that are kind of set in stone and don't really translate to the screen. But as long as they follow them, they don't lose their job because they can say, 'I made a film from the board game Paydayso even if the film didn't work, you can't throw me out'.”

According to the actor of Bad Monkeyall is not lost and the initiation of this new, somewhat castrating system must come from the spectators:

“People want to laugh, they want to see things that seem a little dangerous or push the boundaries.he concluded. I think we'll see more of this in the cinematic space sooner or later, in my opinion.”

Maybe the series Bad Monkey Is it part of the solution? Not recommended for children under 16, its ten episodes will follow a former detective turned restaurant inspector. But not for long, because a severed arm is found, which relaunches his career and leads him to rub shoulders with circles eaten away by corruption. Bad Monkeycreated by Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso), will air on August 14 on Apple TV+.

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