Adam Scott Gets Real About His Fake Penis in 'The Overnight'
One of the most unexpected, headline-grabbing talking points coming out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the prosthetic penises worn by Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman in the buzzy comedy The Overnight. “There are some pretty lengthy shots of penises in this movie, so I imagined we were going to get some questions about it,” Scott admitted to Yahoo Movies, which you can watch in the video above.
The actors play Alex and Kurt, newfound friends who, along with their wives (Taylor Schilling and Judith Godrèche, respectively) bond over the course of a drunken night. There’s skinny-dipping involved, which leads to a crisis for Scott’s character Alex, who is, um, size-challenged — especially after he gets a look at the very well-endowed Kurt in the buff. Scott addressed the question on everyone’s mind after the film’s Sundance premiere, telling the audience, “They were both prosthetics, OK?”
Related: Adam Scott Answers 'Funny Questions,’ Tells Us His Son’s Best Pee Joke
Scott admitted he and Schwartzman were nervous about shooting their nude scenes, but not because of the “props”: “We glued them onto our bodies, and it looks like a real penis, so for all intents and purposes everyone there is seeing what you look like when you’re naked,” he said. “But it’s not real. So there’s this weird psychological barrier where for whatever reason we were way more comfortable than we thought we would be. It was like wearing a new pair of shorts of something.”
The Overnight is now in select theaters. Watch the trailer:
