Nathan Lane & Megan Mullally Interview: Dicks: The Musical
292023 has taken Nathan Lane’s career to some dark places, first with Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid and now in Larry Charles’ aptly-titled Dicks: The Musical, which celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Employing the talent of stars like Lane, Megan Thee Stallion, and Parks and Recreation costars Nick Offerman and the always-hilarious Megan Mullally, this musical adaptation took home this year’s Midnight Madness Award. It may seem an eccentric choice, but according to Lane and Mullally, there’s much more than meets the eye with A24’s most recent R-rated release.
From writers and stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, Dicks adapts their play, Fucking Identical Twins, into a studio feature with an all-star cast that sees Lane feeding two gloopy, toothy creatures—affectionately called the Sewer Boys—deli meats “like a mother bird” and Megan Thee Stallion leading men on leashes. You’d never guess this foul-mouthed musical, helmed by the director behind Borat, would be a play on the classic film The Parent Trap or that, at its core, “it's a movie about family. It's about people trying to create a family.”
During their interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, which you can check out in the video above or in the transcript below, Lane and Mullally talk about what drew them to Sharp and Jackson’s raunchy comedy, Lane’s “love-hate relationship” with Backpack and Whisper, a.k.a. the Sewer Boys, and how Lane’s performance brought the crew to tears.
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