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Wilson and Vaughn: Leaders of the 'Frat Pack'
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
OXFORD, Md. — Vince Vaughn is getting sacked like a week's worth of groceries. The 6-foot-5 actor, along with his equally looming stunt double, suffers serial body slams during a less-than-friendly game of touch football while shooting The Wedding Crashers on the sprawling lawn of a 55-acre Eastern Shore estate.
Mazel Tov!: Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn crash nuptials in the hopes of picking up women in The Wedding Crashers.
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Meanwhile, co-star Owen Wilson chills out in a rocker on a shady porch, his infamous twice-broken nose tucked into the pages of a newspaper. He awaits his chance to teasingly toss a pigskin with movie crush Rachel McAdams (the main meanie in Mean Girls) and taunt Vaughn ("Hey, baba ganouj!" is one of his ad-libbed jibes) as his partner rolls about on the ground in mock agony.
"I learned from working with Jackie Chan (in Shanghai Noon and its sequel, Shanghai Knights) not to do any stunts," Wilson lazily intones about his knack for stealing scenes without breaking a sweat. "I think by the end, all my roles will just be playable from a chair."
To witness hard-charging Vaughn and easygoing Wilson in action while making the romantic lark about bachelor pals who sneak into nuptial celebrations to pick up female guests is to observe an ongoing comedy cabal of thirtysomething funny guys who can't stop crashing each other's pictures. Entertainment Weekly even coined a term for this Rat Pack redux — "the Slacker Pack," which also boasts Ben Stiller, Wilson's brother Luke, Jack Black and Will Ferrell. (Related story: Who was in which movie? Find out in our Frat Pack chart)
But the phrase implies a lack of drive and initiative, and this Frat Pack (a preferable label in honor of last year's Old School) is all about the work. Stiller, the de facto kingpin whose 1996 film The Cable Guy inaugurated the male comedy club, is appearing in no less than six films this year. That includes the sports farce Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, opening Friday, opposite Vaughn. And Vaughn is keeping pace, showing up briefly as a rival newshound in Ferrell's Anchorman (July 9).
Vaughn, 34, and fellow charter member Wilson, 35, previously brushed up against each other in Starsky & Hutch and Zoolander. But they never were a buddy team before now. Leave it to director David Dobkin, who did 1998's Clay Pigeons with Vaughn and 2003's Shanghai Knights with Wilson, to play matchmaker and bring the pair together for The Wedding Crashers, expected to be a June 2005 release.
The plot: The incorrigible twosome invite themselves to a swank wedding thrown by a high-ranking politico (Christopher Walken) and hit on the bride's two sisters. Vaughn swiftly beds his catch, but his hopes for a quick getaway are dashed when Wilson makes the mistake of actually falling for McAdams and decides to accept her family's offer to spend the weekend at their palatial getaway. While Wilson pursues the object of his growing affection, his friend "is put through the grinder," as Vaughn puts it.
"Rachel's boyfriend is trying to hurt Owen during the football game, but I keep getting hit," the actor explains. "Her brother is gay and he fancies me. Plus my taxes aren't exactly in line and Christopher Walken is the secretary of the Treasury and I'm starting to get paranoid."
Dobkin denies there is any Hollywood conspiracy afoot to keep the clique together, even though another Frat Pack member puts in a hush-hush Crashers cameo. "I just thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to put them both in a movie,' " the director says of his leads. "They are opposites in many ways, and I wanted to see what the chemistry was going to be."
That all the actors and Dobkin are represented by the same talent agency helps to seal such deals, too. "It's wonderful when you get to work with one another over and over again," he says. "You do get better. It's like being in an acting troupe."
Both Wilson and Vaughn also pooh-pooh any theories. "There isn't any master plan of doing stuff together," Vaughn says. "I just like working with all of them a lot." Adds Wilson: "You get comfortable with people, the people who you admire and think are funny, and so you naturally seek them out. A big part of comedies is being on the same wavelength."
The twosome is getting along well during off-hours, too. The Washington Post, hungry for any hint of Hollywood in its circulation area, has been keeping close tabs on downtime activities, including bar visits. Neither actor owns up to ever crashing a real wedding, though they have no qualms about dropping in uninvited at other party functions. "I learned at a young age that if you walk in like you belong somewhere, no one ever says anything to you," Vaughn says.
However, that attitude didn't quite cut it when he and Wilson tried to get into a private soiree at the Four Seasons, where they stayed while filming in Washington, D.C. "It was for Young Republicans from Texas or something," Wilson says. "Vince actually is a Republican and they didn't believe him. They saw me and said, 'Come on in.' But to Vince, they said, 'We know YOU'RE not a Republican.' "
Vaughn later made up for any hassle by snagging an invite to the White House, getting a private tour and meeting President Bush. No crashing required.
