Danny McBride asks, holding out a bag of sweets.

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Mmm!

I also enjoyedYour Highness.

The whole audience seemed to like it.

Its a really good film to see with a lot of people.

Sorry, this sweets very chewy.

[laughs] I was impressed with all the references to old fantasy movies.

Was that part of your research, to go back and rewatch them all?

David Green and myself went to film school together.

Weve been friends for a long time.

Films like Beastmaster andConan The Barbarian, andDark Crystal.

All these movies arent, you know, flawless.

Just how much of it was improvised?

I read that a lot of the dialogue was made up on the spot.

We didnt do rehearsals or anything.

We just jammed on the day of shooting.

The improv isnt always used to find jokes.

Sometimes its used to find that weird look an actor gives where theyre not sure where the scenes going.

And when that finds its way into the scene, thats a more honest reaction than what was planned.

Hell work it for jokes, but hell also work it for performance just as much.

Did any of that improvisation alter the trajectory of the story at any point?

Did it suggest plot developments that werent in the script?

That was never in the script.

Thats the beauty of improvisation.

You never know what the hells working and whats not going to work.

Thats why we dont have a go at censor ourselves.

So, David never censors us when we improvise.

We use the editing process to figure out whether weve gone too far or not gone far enough.

Its a quite unapologetically profane kind of film.

Was there ever any pressure from outside sources to tone it down a bit?

That was the whole deal with this movie.

To us, thats where the comedy would work best.

We werent making jokes about how low-budget the movie was.

We wanted the movie to take itself completely seriously.

But while we were doing that, we couldnt really be given the budget of those movies.

Because once you start tapping into that arena, the movie needs to have a broader appeal.

All the shit that I wanted to see in a movie when I was 12 years old.

It was a method of mixing high art with the lowest of artforms, you know?

There seems to be quite an appetite, lately, for R-rated, quite edgy comedies.

Why do you think that is?

I dont know what it is.

Ive nothing against PG-13 comedies.

I like it when those are done well.

I dont like there to be boundaries in comedy.

I want to go into a movie thinking anythings possible.

They can poke fun at anything, and for me, thats whats exciting about an R-rated comedy.

I dont know if thats whats exciting for everyone, but thats what I think about it.

Youve isolated a large proportion of the people who can go see the movie.

Its a tricky thing.

But as soon as you see them tanking, you wont be able to take chances on them.

I was quite fascinated by the eclectic nature of the cast, as well.

There are a lot of quite heavyweight, straight actors in there.

That was important for us.

We didnt want to just populate this movie with just comedians.

We thought that, the more seriously we approached the movie, the funnier we could be.

That just heightens the comedy.

Things like, Damian Lewis scene with James Franco, at the climax.

There are tears in his eyes.

What preparation did you have to do for your role?

I obviously had to put weight on for the role.

[laughs] I was very dedicated to that.

I went to a couple of days training, but David pulled me out of it.

I want you to be awkward and terrible.

James was very prepared.

He didnt have to work too hard at it, because hed put the time in on another film.

He was up to speed.

So, whats next for you?

It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari and myself.

Its like a bank heist action comedy.

Danny McBride, thank you very much.