Pizza Movie Interviews: Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jack Martin, and directors Brian McElhaney & Nick Kocher get lost in the sauce
Who ordered the pie with pineapple, red pepper flakes, and a BDSM-themed band featuring a lead singer hooked up to a period simulator? If you said Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney’s Pizza Movie, give yourself a gold star, and we’ll put a few extra garlic breadsticks in your order. Today, we’re interviewing Andi Mack and Doogie Kamealoha M.D. star Peyton Elizabeth Lee, La Brea and Senior Prank actor Jack Martin, and Saturday Night Live alums Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher for Pizza Movie, a madcap stoner comedy featuring ill-advised drug use, fascist Resident Advisors, giant squids, buckets of blood, and everything else to make for an unforgettable night of unhinged insanity.
Check out our interview with Pizza Movie stars Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone, & Lulu Wilson here!
While speaking with Peyton and Jack, we discuss the art of playing a college sweetheart with a wild side, last-minute changes to the Pizza Movie script, the thrill of playing a fascist RA with an inferiority complex, leading an intense experimental band of misfit musicians, and more! Then, while speaking with Brian and Nick, we find out which “drug phases” landed on the cutting room floor, where and how Pizza Movie was filmed, how the cast came together, who built Snack-O-Tron, the inspiration for Ashley’s band, and which college comedies inspired the duo’s wacky stoner comedy.
In Pizza Movie, a shy college student and his reckless roommate set out on a simple mission to grab pizza, but after a strange dose of a mind-bending experimental drug, they’re thrust into a chaotic night of absurd encounters, wild hallucinations, and unexpected revelations that could change their lives forever.
Alex Maidy reviewed Pizza Movie for JoBlo as part of our SXSW coverage. In his review, Alex said, “Pizza Movie is too dumb to be great but is also too fun to be bad. It falls somewhere in the middle and will likely be the perfect movie to throw on in college dorm rooms around the country. I don’t foresee Montgomery and Jack turning into the stars of an ongoing franchise, but I had enough fun with the moments in this movie to give it another watch. McElhaney and Kocher packed a lot of material into Pizza Movie, which gives it a bit of an uneven tone. It shifts from funny to bizarre and back again, with many moments either undeveloped or wasted. As sketch comedy writers, there is some brilliance hidden within Pizza Movie, but it lacks an overall structure to let it work as well as it could have. I enjoyed Pizza Movie, but I think it works better as a series of moments rather than as a feature film. I know several scenes I will definitely watch again and again, and that makes this at least a moderate success from a pair of up-and-coming filmmaking talents. This is a movie designed to be enjoyed with a pizza and your mind-altering substance of choice.”
Pizza Movie comes to Hulu on April 3.
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