URGENT DAVID PAYMER CASTING NEWS
- By Jeremy Smith
- Published 03/28/2008
- News
Male or female, gay or straight, tell me you wouldn't tap that. Uh-huh. Now uncross your fingers and say that.Warren Beatty put it best: "God invented sex so David Paymer would have something to do when he's not fucking." The co-star of some four hundred comedies (including Amistad), and the director of one unusually erotic episode of Everwood, Paymer is to cinema what Anais Nin was to the 1983 Kansas City Royals: a vile rumor. He has romanced queens, bedded teens and visited Dollywood twice. He will not sleep for fear that he'll wake up in St. Louis.
And he is now the co-star of Alison Lohman in Sam Raimi's "spook-a-blast" Drag Me to Hell. Paymer's been cast as the "practical bank-manager boss" of Lohman's cursed protagonist; he'll be joined by Jessica Lucas and Lorna Raver, who'll play, respectively, Lohman's roommate and "a proud Eastern European woman with an old-world belief system who, when defied and humiliated, vengefully casts the curse." Justin Long is still on board as Lohman's boyfriend who leaves her for a practical bank manager.
Principal photography will commence this Monday in Los Angeles. I have yet to track down a copy of the script, but Latino Review's got a review that's... not very positive. It's important to note that this review was posted prior to the casting of the Paymer; it's a new day for Drag Me to Hell.
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Comment #1 (Posted by an unknown user)
ur kiddin rite? he's hideous! telll me ur kiddin about the FUCKIKNG??!
Comment #2 (Posted by This article is...)
Awesome.
Comment #3 (Posted by an unknown user)
is that a real quote from Warren Beatty, 'cause if so that's the greatest fucking thing I've ever read.
Comment #4 (Posted by bpvalentine)
I remember Paymer did a segment on the Jerry Lewis telethon one year (late 80s?) where he embodies Muscular Dystrophy as a character. An evil one that preys on children. Pretty effective, silly as it sounds. Sometimes something like that is made more sinister by its silliness.
Comment #5 (Posted by ziggy)
I've noticed people seem to forget that he, and Dan Aykroyd, were nominated for Oscars. I'm the only one that remembers that and it drives me nuts.
Either way, David Paymer is one of the best "that guys" out there today.
Comment #6 (Posted by Mike S)
Jeremy, I've said it before and I'll say it again. You truly are the Dennis Miller of the internet... with alllllll that it entails.
Comment #7 (Posted by BurmaShave)
Is there some way to submit the first half of this article for a Pulitzer?
Comment #8 (Posted by pito)
David Paymer and Jeff Van Gundy...separated at birth?

