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...Both men like to play arrogant, vulgar, out-of-shape buffoons - angry antiheroes with oversized egos and anger management problems. In the cult comedy The Foot Fist Way, McBride growled as a hapless martial arts instructor who never missed an opportunity to tell his students he was better than them. In Pineapple Express, he was the shotgun-toting stoner who found the strength to embrace his new-found "thug life." And with the new HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down, set to premiere Sunday, Feb. 15, McBride has teamed up with executive producer Ferrell to tell the story of a washed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danny McBride | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Foot Fist Way became a something of a cult hit after the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Did that movie play any part in getting Eastbound & Down off the ground? Oh, definitely. The short history is that Jody Hill, Ben Best and I were all in film school together in North Carolina, and after years of compromising ourselves and struggling in California, we moved back and made this movie for $70,000. We paid for it on credit cards, with a crew comprised of interns from our old film school. The movie never found real financial success, but it started getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danny McBride | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Where did the idea come from? Did you have a particular pitcher in mind? Or were you more interested in a celebrity falling from grace? A few years ago, before Foot Fist Way, I moved out of L.A. and back to Virginia and I started bartending and substitute teaching. My first day of teaching, I suddenly had all these questions about whether I was giving up on my dream, and I started introducing myself on the first day of class and telling these ninth-graders that this wasn't my final stop, that I was just doing this to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danny McBride | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...during freshman year at film school, and I was going to school originally to be a writer and director. I actually worked as a second unit director on George Washington, and then an actor dropped out of David's All The Real Girls and I stepped in. Thanks to Foot Fist Way, I ended up swinging by the set to meet Judd Apatow during Knocked Up, and I actually told him that he works on his set a lot like David works and that the two would really understand each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danny McBride | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Monday afternoon in Quincy House, a large audience of Harvard students and faculty was spellbound by a five-foot-tall, 79-year-old mother of 11 children. Dolores Huerta, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America—although delicate in appearance—exudes the calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo, Miguel Garcia, and Eliana C. Murillo | Title: Yes, She Did! | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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