on average, how many hours a day were you working on Z&M during the shoot?

Kevin says: “Around nineteen/twenty hours a day. Seriously.”

What was it like working with Tyler Labine again? How big a role does he have in Z&M if you can equate it to screen time?

Kevin says: “It’s only a few, but very memorable, minutes.”

Will Jeff Anderson be playing the smart arse funny friend role, similar to Randal’s charcter?”

Kevin says: “His character can be a smart-ass, and in the flick, he is a friend; yet I’d be hard-pressed to describe his role as the smart-ass funny friend. I don’t know how I’d describe him in the flick, except to say he’s one of the wack pack.”

Are there any other actresses from the adult industry in this film besides Traci Lords and Katie Morgan?

Kevin says: “Nope – just Katie (Traci hasn’t made an adult film in twenty years).”

I am wondering if you will cameo in this flick.

Kevin says: “I do not cameo in the flick. Neither does Mos.”

Will you use porn style music or existing songs?

Kevin says: “Both.”

What’s the next step after you have a rough cut of the film ready?

Kevin says: “Start showing the shit out of it: to the cast, the marketing people, the publicity folks, the chairman(men), etc. – all in an effort to make sure it’s down to the fighting weight before we start testing it.”

You said it won’t be ou tin the UK till christmas maybe after? Why so long? Have you considered a world wide release date to counter the DVD pirates?

Kevin says: “I’ve got no control over overseas release dates; never have, never will. But based on past experience, the UK release always seems to happen months after the domestic release. So I’m thinking you guys won’t get it ’til after Christmas. I really hope I’m wrong.”

You think you might cut a ‘net teaser a la Clerks II?

Kevin says: “Naturally. A few, I’m thinking.”

Is Z&M getting a Weinstein Co release or a Dimension?

Kevin says: “Last I heard, it was both.”

Thanks again to Mr. Smith for taking the time to get back in touch with the fans after what sounded like an incredibly busy couple of months. It’s nice to see the posts back, and we’re of course eagerly anticipating the triumphant return of SModcast, perhaps as early as next week!

Film Notes: After filming here, breaking up hard to do for ‘Zack’ gang

The cocoon, plus the cast and crew for Kevin Smith’s “Zack & Miri Make a Porno,” are gone.

“The whole show, we’ve been kind of in a cocoon and not really talking to anybody,” the writer-director said earlier this week in Monroeville as filming wrapped. “But it was incredibly productive for us to work that way.”

Moviegoers and members of the media generally left the production alone, even though some knew about locations or spotted tell-tale trucks around places like Monroeville, McKeesport, McKees Rocks and Hazelwood.

“Everyone was really nice about it. If we were shooting any place else, we wouldn’t have gotten the kind of privacy that a movie like this kind of requires. There are a lot of naked people walking around.”

Still, Smith added, “Some people think it’s a nonstop party, but you’re talking about 12-, 15-hour days that take their toll. You’ve got a lot to accomplish in a very short window.”

Nevertheless, he managed to finish two days ahead of schedule, which prompted Seth Rogen to chime in: “All I keep thinking is I wish I did more takes. That’s about a thousand more jokes.”

He and Elizabeth Banks star in the comedy — dirty, sexy but sweet, Smith promises — about two friends who decide to make a porn movie for the money but discover they have feelings for each other.

Rogen was a trouper, returning to Pittsburgh the day after he was a presenter with fellow funnyman Jonah Hill at the 80th Academy Awards. “It was a little hectic, schedule-wise, because I had to fly out of here and fly back and I worked on Monday, but not till the afternoon.”

Smith said Rogen could have insisted he pick another scene to shoot that day, but he didn’t. “He was a true champion, man,” the director said.

As for Rogen’s red-carpet and Oscar experience: “It was really weird. It was a lot of fun. I kept expecting someone to ask me to leave. It was great, I was shocked that they asked us to do it. The whole thing was just kind of thrilling, it was really cool. … It was great watching Philip Seymour Hoffman not laugh at my jokes.”

Oscar-winner Hoffman, a nominee for “Charlie Wilson’s War,” was among the A-listers in the front rows of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. “Never before have I not made such famous people laugh,” Rogen quipped.

Smith and the table of Pittsburghers had no trouble laughing. In fact, the director said of Rogen and Banks: “Both of them were, hands down, the two best actors I’ve ever worked with. I know you’re supposed to say that cause it’s the current movie but I’ve worked with [expletive] Matt Damon.”

Not to mention the likes of Alan Rickman, Rogen volunteered. “Make a list of all the people we’re better than,” he said, laughing. (Barbara Vancheri, Post-Gazette movie editor)

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