Does that answer your question? He's as eccentric and as wacky as you'd expect him to be, but he's also cool. And someone will "click," and he's back on again, acting up a storm. He'd be chilling, "Wow, right now," and an assistant will come by and, and he'll sit in his director's chair waiting for the next take. He does have an off switch, and I've seen the off switch, and it's weird. MTV: Speaking of Chris Walken, he's your co-star in "Balls of Fury." Does he have an off switch, or is Chris Walken exactly what I think he'd be like off screen?įogler: He's a robot. And he's driving on a motorcycle toward us, face completely frozen, flying at us in a motorcycle, explosions all around him, and he says, right at the last minute, "In the fifth your a- goes down." Bam! Dan Fogler, Friday! "Cosmic Explosions." That's the name of the movie, "Cosmic Explosions." So, we're driving in the desert, chased by the army, explosions everywhere, then Bruce Willis - let's make Bruce Willis the bad guy. So he and I, "Thelma & Louise"-style, are driving across the country in a convertible, being chased by the Army. Get some Chris Walken action in there I like working with him. Hit the bridge of your nose and send the cartilage to your cerebral cortex. Probably kill you with my thumb, you know. Who do you play? What are you after?įogler: I'm probably some sort of bank-robbing Mafioso type, like a real guy from the streets. MTV: Give me the pitch for the Dan Fogler action movie. The idea of you as Rocky has stuck in my head -įogler: - Urgggghhh! I'll let you finish your sentence. MTV: In your speech at the Tonys you said you felt like Rocky. And he probably had sex with lots of women.
MTV: So if that was your "Welcome to Hollywood" moment, what is your "Farewell to Hollywood" moment going to be?įogler: Everything was going well, then all of a sudden they found Dan Fogler alone with all of his Polly-O String Cheese wrappers and pudding cups, just delirious, running naked through the streets, totally drenched in his own sweat. You get a larger budget, and the next thing you know there's explosions and Billy Bob Thornton standing in the corner watching your every move. MTV: Would you call that your "Welcome to Hollywood" moment?įogler: I would say "School for Scoundrels." It's amazing how much goes into shoving a man's head into a toilet over and over again when you've got a big budget. I get kicked 17 times in this movie, and I think it has to do with the whiplash. It has to do with the reaction - mostly in the reaction.
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God knows, I get kicked so many times in this movie it's unbelievable.įogler: I think the technique just lies with the other person. I don't think you can get better than that.įogler: Yeah. Is there a movie with "balls" in it?įogler: What if it was just "Ballsballs"? Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Balls"?įogler: "Love the Balls." That was great. MTV: How about "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Balls"?įogler: How about "The Empire Strikes Balls"?
Since "Balls of Fury" is a play on "Fists of Fury," we're going to think of the funniest movie title by replacing a noun with the word "balls." I'll start: "Good Ball Hunting."įogler: I feel like saying "Goodfellas," so "Ballfellas"? MTV: I was hoping that we could have a little ping-pong match right here. I can't do it anymore because I've hurt someone - detached a man's retina in Reno playing ping-pong. MTV: Is this your Old West moment, where every two-bit thug with a paddle tries to come along and take your crown?įogler: I've got a lot of people coming to try to knock the king off the hill, but I've turned in the paddle. Some people might say it's just a matter of a turn of the wrist, but for me it's all moxy, blood, sweat and tears.
After my training for the movie - which was rigorous - I went from crappy player to Bruce Lee-quality player. MTV: Let's talk about "Balls of Fury." What makes you the fiercest ping-pong player at the table?ĭan Fogler: Just my sheer ability. (Watch Dan Fogler talk about gaining and losing weight for roles and why Alfred Hitchcock fans can count on "Number 13.") In this interview, Fogler gave us the skinny on his ping-pong technique, his scandalous future in Hollywood (which includes a kick-ass action movie), and the secret, true identity of the actor otherwise known as Christopher Walken. The Tony Award-winning star of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Fogler is slated to appear in six movies within the next two years, among them "Balls of Fury" (in theaters August 29), in which he plays a down-and-out ping-pong player recruited by the FBI to enter an underground table-tennis tournament. SANTA MONICA, California - How do you spell rising star? D-A-N F-O-G-L-E-R.
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