How Megan Fox Inspired ‘Good Mourning,’ Machine Gun Kelly’s Wild New Stoner Comedy With Pete Davidson

The ’90s and early ’90s have brought us countless of today’s classic comedies like Bake half, Friday, Pineapple Express, Dude, where’s my car?and Shocked and confused. The genre has cooled down a bit in recent years – perhaps because cannabis has become less taboo – but it feels gratifying to be lit up and watch people on screens try to navigate the world. being high is never funny. Enter: Kelly machine gun and Mod Sun, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in Good morninga new comedy for the TikTok generation.

“If you’re lucky, you’ll get one of the classic comedies every five years. That’s the journey we’ve been on,” Mod Sun told The Daily Beast of their funny and ludicrous film, which is showing in theaters and on-demand on May 20.

MGK plays London Clash, a fictional TV star who falls on the day of his big audition when he wakes up with a breakup text allegedly from his famous actress girlfriend (played by Becky G). shoulder) which reads: “Sorry. I wish I didn’t have to do this through texting.” A series of drug-using hijinks followed, including but not limited to: house fires, sutures taken from stalkers, replacement of human ashes with marijuana ashes, a party at YG’s house, arrest, and other incidents. cameos as Danny Trejo, amber roseand Tommy Lee.

Below, Mod Sun shares some of the wildest and weirdest moments from the film, teasing a different ending, and explaining how. Megan Fox inspired all.

The film was inspired by a true text that Megan Fox once sent to MGK.

Shortly after MGK and Fox started dating in 2020, she flew to a remote location in Europe to shoot a movie. With limited cell service, she sent her new friend a text “which he interpreted as a breakup message,” according to Mod.

“He started spinning and he hit me and he said, ‘Yo, I just have to keep my mind off of this, I don’t know what’s going on, I can’t tell if we break up. or we’re done. Let’s write a movie about it,” Mod recalls. “And me, I’m just a really good friend, so I said, ‘That’s right, man, anything to get you out of this.'”

Over the next month, the two spent “every day, since sunrise” writing the script, and eventually committed to making it, despite their busy schedules.

Mod explains: “As soon as it started to reveal that we would be able to do this, we were both very busy. “The world is about to start reopening, and we are both set to tour and work on our new albums, and I think we just have a little bit of time to think about it. our future selves and like that, man, if we say no to this or say let’s do it next year, it may never happen and our future selves will very angry with us. “

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Will Machine Gun Kelly really play Batman?

In the film, London must decide between pursuing love or landing a life-changing role in her next life. Batman movies — and according to his incredibly supportive BFF Mod, the rock star turned rapper could actually help Robert Pattinson make money.

“Ask me this two years ago and I would be like, no, what are you talking about? But to be honest, the thing that surprised me the most about this movie was the perfect cast of actors that really is Kells,” said Mod. “And I think that’s what it takes to play an iconic role, someone who can master and cover the spectrum of emotions.”

And although MGK certainly won’t be competing for an Oscar any time soon Good morning (maybe a Razzie?), the mod is right in that he has some stellar displays and funny timing.

“People don’t know that Machine Gun Kelly! They only know this serious person. He’s one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met and it’s great that the whole world can see that.”

Megan Fox didn’t play MGK’s girlfriend in the movie because they wanted to make her “one of the boys.”

Considering Real life love story of MGK and Fox—You know, the person involved drink blood and tongues and thorns — you’d think they’d play each other’s love on screen, too. In Good morningHowever, Latin pop star Becky G plays London’s girlfriend, Apple, while Fox plays London’s super-cool, pink-haired, weed-loving roommate Olive (they seem to be huge fans of the name). food).

“There are so many films that are so close to real life that we wanted to remove it from seeing it through that lens. We wanted to play Megan in a role you don’t normally see Megan Fox in,” said the Mod about the decision to cast Fox as Olive. “I mean, you get to know Megan and she’s really goofy and funny. But you have to get to know her to see that.

“So I can have that view of her, like, we wanted to show Megan in that light and let her be part of the boys,” he continued. “Because that’s how I envisioned her — they just started dating at the start of the pandemic, and she became part of the gang and was always around. That’s how I see her, as one of the boys.”

Not surprisingly, Pete Davidson improvise everything.

“I’m not even joking with you when I say it word for word,” Mod said when asked how many of Davidson’s jokes are improvised. He plays Berry (yes, with the “e”), a hotel valet who desperately wants to be part of the team that owns London. Not surprisingly, SNL Comedian steals pretty much every scene he’s in.

“That’s the beauty of working with real comedians,” says Mod. “Look, I’m very new to the world of acting and directing and directing and all that. I think what I’ve seen, just from around it, is that people come up with the script memorized and try to make it happen. And then in the presence of comedians, like, looking manly, we know what you really want in the edit, and what you want is different each time. Every time he watched Pete deliver a different shot, he would say something completely different. And the same goes for Whitney Cummings. It was great to watch. ”

MGK and Mod Sun have some serious expression power.

Mod sincerely believes that he and MGK were ahead of the trend while writing some Good morningthe craziest bits.

“He was trying to get the role of Batman… there was no new Batman at the time. We didn’t even know there was a new Batman being created,” he explained. “And the whole ‘fake Drake,’ no fake Drake thing went viral when we made fake Drake in this movie. It really is crazy how much it shows. ”

One thing from the movie unfortunately has Not happened yet? The invention of the “shower”, introduced by London in one of the first scenes, was “the most wonderful thing money can buy” and was essentially a shower filled with steam not steam. water that equals – you guessed it – smoke .

The mod said: “We totally had that in mind. “It is definitely our dream item.”

Avril Lavigne, Mod Sun’s IRL fiancée, made an acting mistake after her cameo.

Get in early Good morningMod’s longtime good sidekick insists to friends that Avril Lavigne wrote “Sk8er Boi” about him. It’s an inherent occurrence, but a story goes back to when, towards the end of the film, it is Lavigne who sees Mod in the hotel lobby, angrily talks to him and flirts with him, “You know, I was write ‘Sk8er Boi’ about you.” And in another example of the power of expression, Mod says he wrote a bit before he started dating Lavigne.

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“It’s at two completely different ends of the movie, and you almost forget the joke. And then when it connects, it just hits really hard. It’s one of the funniest parts and it’s funny because we actually wrote the whole thing before Avril and I started dating, so it’s just crazy how it went,” he said. explained and added that if Lavigne got her way, we would get to see a lot more of her on screen. “She really is a great actress, and she made this mistake on set. She was like, yo, I want to do more of this. “

Dennis Rodman’s arrival happened great last minute.

Good morning There’s no shortage of crazy cameos — featuring Danny Trejo playing a caveman actor, Trippie Redd throwing water balloons, and Amber Rose selling weeds — but the most famous one might be Dennis Rodman. In the film, London confronts Rodman at an airport after alleging that the former NBA great is dating Apple – which doesn’t go well after Rodman’s security guard responds by punching him. London Square front.

“Up until the day before filming, it was just ‘pro athlete.’ That’s what it says on the call board, that’s what it says in the script. Others, we basically wrote the cameo for that person. But we didn’t know who to cast for the ‘professional athlete’, Mod explained, adding that he left the decision on who to cast for the role to MGK, the bigger sports company of the two.

“He was constantly swinging and was lacking in trying to lock people in. So literally the day before, the production company and people were panicking, and he said, ‘Don’t worry, let’s go. Trust me, I’ve got this under control. . ‘ And then he turned to me and he would say, ‘Man, I don’t know what we’re going to do.

The day before the airport scene was supposed to be filmed, Mod had a lightbulb moment. “I was like, man, I only know one athlete and that’s Dennis Rodman,” Mod continued. “I have a Dennis Rodman tattoo, OK? Because Dennis Rodman is one of the truest geeks we’ve ever had, and I’m a fan of the weird; rare humans have been on this planet. Dennis Rodman is one in one, one rare. We ended up talking to him on the phone. I swear he was at a pool party and didn’t hear us at all, but he said, “Okay, I’ll be there tomorrow.”

There’s another (perhaps more confusing) ending there.

Consider this a fake warning if you don’t want to know what happens at the end of the Good morning. Things come to a complete, troubled circle in the final moments, when Apple and London accidentally crash their cars into each other while they’re on their way to meet and make up. They wake up in the same hospital room, where Apple says to her bandaged boyfriend, “Oops.”

“There is a completely different cut that could one day come about taking a crazy turn that no one can understand. Initially, we wanted it to be a giant motion picture, like we were filming a TV episode the whole time we were watching this series,” Mod explained. “We fought hard for it, but it didn’t land. And we learned this before shooting, from other directors, that the movie will reveal itself to you as you’re working on it. Therefore, we have left it open for interpretation in the final edit.

“But we set it up to a point where it was like, you know the movie is called Good morning, it’s basically saying “good sadness”, you know? ‘ he continued. ‘And there is a duality to everything, that even in those moments of sadness and despair and you think the world is ending and things are going wrong, that there is a reason. its due. That’s the kind of ending it landed in.”