Director Todd Phillips has another 'Due Date' with the guys

Todd Phillips remembers the time the inspiration came. He turned his comedy due date, the day of being disgusted, and a stage for star Robert Downey Jr. as Bulldog French co-star Zach Galifianakis.
"I told Robert:" Why do not you go into the pin dog in the face? "Phillips recalls. "He thought it would be a good idea, too." It was a strange comedy Phillips model was born.

Probably not the best out there, though. There's the scene in Old School where the frat pledges cement blocks tied his soldiers. Or he bonked a toddler in the head in cats. Or if he had wanted to erase Horatio Sanz with toast for customers of Road Trip.

Welcome to the world Todd Phillips, where men like each other but they do not know how I express it. At least sober.

If it is a sponsor of "Bromance" genre, it is Phillips. Judd Apatow told us years before women of 40 years, had the young Brooklyn-born director crashed the party in Hollywood in 2000 with the comedy road trip was $ 15,000,000 on to win $ 69 million.

He followed with Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels and cons mouth surprise success of last year. Shot for $ 30,000,000 and a cast list B, Hang Over $ 277,000,000 won. A sequel is in preparation and scheduled for release May 26th

If it is always the awkwardness of relationships between men "a continuous line on the work of Phillips," says Phillips. "It may be there by my mother and two sisters. There was a lot of feminine energy. "

Phillips again concentrated his energies on the emotional ties between men, starting with the 1998 documentary Frat House, a condemnation of the Greek life on campus.

"I never really understood the relationship between men and heterosexuals," said Phillips, 39 "There is an elegance in the way they relate to each other."

Of course, if you think tighty whities sprint Galifianakis in his elegant Vegas.

Downey added. The actor met with Phillips two years ago at the ShoWest convention of theater owners, where Phillips was celebrated with a hangover. "I was a fan, and told him," said Downey. "We understood right away."

Downey, "he said with amusement that the dog spitting incident has gained more than contempt," as a child with his fists. It is very nice, actually. Incidentally, these two were thought to Todd. "

By date Downey plays an expectant father who comes home in time for the birth with the offset Galifianakis tried in tow. The film is reminiscent of John Hughes '1987 planes, trains and cars. As in the film is the comedy Date due to the difference of emotionally raw scenes, including one in which Galifianakis bursts into tears. "I wanted the actors to go as far as they were ready to push," said Phillips. "They say if you went too far. It is the public. "

But Phillips believes that his films reach male viewers. "In reality we are all equal," he said. "But the way society puts on men in these assumptions, things are expressed differently. I always felt that guys can not have relationships."