First Look: ‘Fool's Paradise,’ starring Ken Jeong and Ray Liotta in one of his final roles, is ‘Always Sunny’ actor Charlie Day's satirical take on a rising star’s journey in the movies.
was driving around Los Angeles one day, listening to mariachi music by the Los Tres Ases, when it struck him that films like his belovedjust aren’t being made anymore. “I was just thinking about the type of movies that I loved and that I wish I could be in,” he says. “I thought, It’d be nice to just make something for myself to get a chance to do a performance like that.”the comedy series he cocreated and continues to write and star in.
“There were times over the course of this movie when I thought, Why am I doing this? I should just show up and act and stand on my mark and say my lines,” says Day. “But something always draws me back to just wanting to put a story together.”may be his feature directorial debut, but Day has been making movies since his early days in New York, when his roommate—to buy a digital camera.
, the director’s notes inspired Day to add 27 pages to the script. “I just knew in my gut something was missing,” says Day, who fleshed out Jeong’s character to become the emotional center of the movie. Still, he didn’t think the film’s financier would ever let him reshoot such a significant part of the film. But del Toro gave him the push he needed. “He gave me the great advice that you only get one chance at your first movie, and if you know there’s a better version of it and a way to achieve it, you’ll regret forever not trying to make that change,” says Day.Jeong, several other members of the cast, and the crew returned for the reshoots in late 2021.
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