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Roundtable Interview With Bill Hader, Anna Faris, And Benjamin Bratt On Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

When we left Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks on the island, they had just saved the town from Flint's creation and everything seemed like it was going to work out. Four years later, and no time on the island has passed, we pick up right where we left off in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. During our early look at the film last week held at the Sony Animation Studios in Los Angeles, besides watching footage and hearing from the directors of the project, we also got to sit down for a round-table interview with three of the actors that put a voice to these iconic characters.

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This movie is obviously going to be just as pun-tastic as the first one. Which ones were your favorite?

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Bill Hader: I just did ADR for the movie a couple weeks ago and they played me a 30 second clip, and there were 8 puns in it, and I was recording a ninth one. It’s like in 30 seconds they jammed in as many puns as possible.  I do like one where I say, this is not really puns I guess, but where I go ‘this is bananas’ and then we see giant bananas, ‘we are toast’ and it’s toast, and then I say ‘this is..I was gonna say nut but I’m afraid what’s gonna happen.’

Anna Faris: It is hard to beat, ‘there’s a leek in the boat.’

Bill Hader: I saw the trailer in the theater and when leek in a boat came out, people really seemed to enjoy that.

The film makes you think of food a lot, can you tell us what’s your favorite food and what’s your least favorite, can’t stand, never make me eat food?

Anna Faris: I’m a fan of nachos. They don’t need silverware. You can customize every chip, if you like. The delivery system is awesome. And, although I really like them now, when I was a girl, my parents took me to a nice restaurant and sweet breads was on the menu. So I was like, ‘I’ll have the sweet breads, please,’ and my parents exchanged this glance and they didn’t say anything. Then the sweet breads come and I’m eating it, eating it, and thinking ‘this is a little different then I thought. It’s not sweet like a cinnamon roll, interesting.’ Then my parent were like, ‘oh, it’s actually the thyroid gland, or whatever gland it is, of a cow.’ I do eat them now though.

Bill Hader: I like the Bucatini at Lattanzi on 46th street in New York. That’s a really good dish, I like that. I don’t like sub sandwiches. Anytime I go someplace and they have lunch, and they bring out sub sandwiches, there’s a part of me that’s like ‘f*ck.’ There’s too much lettuce, there’s just too much sandwich there. And it’s all kinda melted. I just don’t like it. The whole thing of it makes no sense. Even when you cut it in half, there’s just too much lettuce, too much tomato, it’s just a bad design.

Benjamin Bratt: I’m a bit of a foodie myself, so I eat everything, and enjoy everything. There is one thing that I always get a hankering for that I must satisfy, and I usually do it at home. And that’s a grilled blue-cheese burger with purple onions, marinated in olive oil, grilled in olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette, and then some home-cut baked fries.

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