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 Romany Malco
Interview By: Michael Dance The name Romany Malco might not ring any bells for you yet, but you've seen him before. After making a splash as one of Steve Carell's friends in The 40-Year-Old Virgin next to Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd, Malco has surfaced in such comedy hits as Blades of Glory and Baby Mama. Now he has a major role in The Love Guru, playing the hockey star that Mike Myers, as the Guru Pitka, comes to help. With any luck, the role will convince audiences that Malco is a natural star. Of course, fans of Showtime's hit series Weeds already know that. For three seasons, Malco played Conrad, Mary Louise Parker's pot-dealing partner in crime, in a dramatic and frequently understated performance that proved he had talent that extended far beyond 'wisecracking black guy' roles. "I feel like for the first time in my life, I actually have a little bit of athletic ability," Malco says of his role in The Love Guru, which required quite a bit of ice skating. "I was on skates like six hours a day [in preparation]. When we started, I was instructed that I wasn't going to really have to do any skating, they had a double, blah blah blah. But by the time I got there and they saw how well I could skate by then, they were telling me I needed to do jumps and spins and slams -- they started giving me tapes and telling me I needed to get my form better. So I went from not having to skate at all to needing to have perfect form." The most enjoyable -- and at the same time the most stressful -- aspect of filming was not the hockey, but the ability to watch a brand new Mike Myers character at work. "The straight face factor was a big deal," Malco says. "It's extremely stressful when you've got people ruining take after take that are magic. And how do you ruin a take? Mike does something funny, and you do shit like this." He visibly stifles a laugh. "That's how you ruin a take. The only challenge becomes being professional." Malco also had the opportunity to square off with Justin Timberlake, who plays a French hockey star nicknamed "Le Coq" -- who apparently has the biggest one in the league. "He made some strong character choices," Malco says of Timberlake, who spends the movie underneath a giant porn-star mustache. "While I was training, I met a few guys who actually played hockey. They had that mustache and that hair." After The Love Guru, Malco's career is stacked with a number of potential projects. First up is St. Johns of Las Vegas, which he starts shooting in a month. "Yeah, I head off to New Mexico; [I co-star with] with Steve Buscemi. He and I play insurance claim investigators. ... |
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