When John finds out Jeremy plans to marry Gloria (Isla Fisher), he’s obviously upset. After all, who will crash weddings with him if his ultimate wingman is now a faithful husband? In a fit of desperation, John tracks down Jeremy’s former mentor … and it gives him a grim reality-check when he realizes the kind of loser Chazz really is. But not before they head out and try to score at a funeral.
It’s a great scene, but director David Dobkin told SpitballingPod that Will Ferrell was almost replaced by none other than Nicolas Cage:
“We were trying to get Will [Ferrell]. We didn’t get Will until midnight the night before he was shooting. It was one day. We were having a very hard time confirming him and we had Nic Cage as a backup. I never told anyone that.”
Can you imagine? Nicolas Cage in a lounge robe chewing the scenery as she shouts to his ma about meatloaf? It’s certainly one hell of a mental image, but ultimately Ferrell signed on for the cameo and the rest is history. Dobkin even admits that having Cage as a backup was “Oh my God. Crazy … Weird.”
“By the way, now Nic is a whole other thing — totally off the reservation,” he added. Although that wild energy could have made an impressive Chazz, it looks as though it just wasn’t meant to be.
