Dicks The Musical Interview: Bowen Yang, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp & Larry Charles
15Based on their play Fucking Identical Twins, writers and co-stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson joined forces with Borat’s Larry Charles to bring their feature adaptation, Dicks: The Musical, to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Full to bursting with lewd humor, a mash-up of genres, and the Sewer Boys, this bizarre A24 musical claimed TIFF’s Midnight Madness Award as well as the hearts of the audience.
According to Sharp, who plays businessman Craig in the film, the inspiration behind Dicks was essentially “compressing The Parent Trap and blowing it out.” (Sort of) like the family-favorite film, Craig and his long-lost brother, Trevor (Jackson), meet up later in life and realize they have so much more in common than their self-proclaimed giant genitalia – they share parents! Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally bring a whole other level of eccentricity to this mad musical as recently-out Harris and Evelyn, whose vagina was lost a number of years ago. These two “identical” brothers devise a scheme to get their divorced parents back together again, alongside a wild cast including Megan Thee Stallion as their boss and Bowen Yang as God.
During an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Charles, Sharp, Jackson, and Yang discussed how they formed this allegiance, from Charles signing on to direct to pitching “the Hereditary of comedies” to A24. We find out the secret to playing God from Yang, and Charles shares the personal touches he added in the edit to keep audiences engaged, including “blemishes” from on set. They talk about tokenism versus representation with Backpack and Whisper, aka the Sewer Boys, why so many different elements fit the film, and what it was like for the cast and crew to perform live for this musical.
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