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...Believe me, I've never been as cocky as Leon is. During high school I had one girlfriend, and she broke up with me to go out with a dude that was in college. My romantic life has been up and down. Even after I got on SNL, I still had to work at it. My wife, who I love, and who I've been with for the majority of my career on SNL, she wasn't easily impressed by the fact that I was on TV, because it was like, you could...
...Andrew and Dennis did, and the thing that I brought to it was the fact that I knew guys like Leon when I was younger. That's where I came up with the Courvoisier as his drink, and the fact that he likes romantic candles, and the fact that his advice is much more blunt than you would expect. We sort of just played with the idea that his advice had worked for him, but it might not necessarily work for other people. So when he tells women to go hang out at a bus station with no underpants...
...that was sort of how we worked. And when I look at the movie now, it's funny, because I can see things that Dennis wrote, or things that Andrew wrote, or things that I wrote, and it's distinctive from each other, but it's all part of Leon...
...said she wanted to be in it. So that was how we got her. As for Karyn Parsons, we were getting ready to shoot and we hadn't yet found a Julie, and finally Karyn sent a tape, and everybody loved her. It was easy for me to do Leon with her, because she understood how I worked with improvising and stuff, and it was a great chemistry. So, I was very instrumental in casting, but I can't take all the credit, because [director] Reggie did a lot of that...
...work, you know. I wasn't going into it thinking, "Okay, I gotta be a charming guy." I just kept thinking that this scene has got to be funny, and I didn't want to look like a bad actor. The hardest part of this movie was making the Leon and Julie thing work, because Leon is fake and Julie is real, and I just didn't think that people would buy me kissing Julie and her falling in love with me. So I was worried about that, but it worked out okay. [pause] I'm no Denzel. [laughs...