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Drake Bell isDragonfly!by Lynn B Drake phoned us from a local Volkswagen dealership where he was scouting for a new ride. He was looking at a Jetta and occasionally, during our chat, we’d hear “what’s that do?” or “what’s in there?” “Can I see the inside of this one?” Don’t worry, we still got the scoop. Read on… AGW: Since you are checking out cars…you were in a pretty awful car accident in 2005. Do you have any advice for teens who haven’t been driving all that long? Drake: Get a safe car. Put the seatbelts on and obey the traffic laws, seriously because you don’t want to die. You know what? People are so stupid because they’re like ‘I’m a fine driver. I’m a good driver’ and guess what? I was stopped with my foot on the brake at a left turn, at a red light, not even moving and they slammed into me so it’s everyone else. It doesn’t matter how good of a driver you are. AGW: So you’d say keep one eye out for the crazy guys then? Drake: Absolutely! AGW: How did you get involved in doing Superhero Movie? Drake: The executive producer and director Craig Mazin and David Zucker, they have kids and they watch “Drake and Josh” and were looking for somebody who could play this young character and they got a hold of me and it’s very much that physical, slapstick comedy. Kind of the same humor and I grew up on Naked Gun and Airplane and all of that work so we kind of clicked and vibed instantly so that’s how it happened. AGW: I interviewed Sara [Paxton, his co-star] and she said she sometimes mistook the stuntman for you when you both had the masks on. Did you ever try to fool her? Any antics on set you can talk about? Drake: Well, usually when I was in the suit, I wasn’t really into doing any pranks because I was so hot and sweaty and wanted to get out of the thing but Leslie Nielsen would show up with his fart machine every day. In the middle of scenes and when the director was trying to talk to him seriously, the fart machine goes off. AGW: Were you a fan of Spider-Man and did they ask you to watch those and other superhero movies when you got the part? Drake: I grew up on the Batman movies and all that. The Spider-Man movies I wasn’t a huge fan of so we did go back and take a look. There were some scenes that were directly taken from it. We had the DVD player by the monitors [on set] and we’d watch the scene and then go do it. But, Batman has gotta be my favorite [superhero], the movies; especially Tim Burton, not so much the comics though. AGW: Did you have to stick pretty rigidly to the script to make the jokes work? No improv? Drake: Zucker’s comedy is all about saying the absurd and being completely serious about it rather than just talking normal so the dialogue is very specific. We did improvise but a lot of times we were just sticking to the script. AGW: Your director said he was kind of in awe of you and Sara because you are young but have both been acting for so long that he was impressed. Drake: Yeah. I actually worked with Sara when I was nine in a movie called The Perfect Game. It was a movie with the kids from “Leave It to Beaver”, a straight to video thing that was out a long time ago. AGW: Did you two remember that when you got together for this movie? Drake: Oh yeah, sure. AGW: Do you sometimes feel like a very old soul or that you’ve been in the business forever? Drake: [laughs] Yeah. I have been doing it forever but it’s cool. That’s what’s awesome about this business. You have new experiences every day. You are always experiencing something you’ve never done before. AGW: Do you feel you have fully made that hard transition from kid actor to adult actor? Are you getting offered roles for a 21-year-old rather than a teen? Drake: I don’t know. We’ll see after this movie comes out but now that I just finished the movie, I’m working on my new record right now so that’s what I’m concentrating on. I haven’t been looking at a lot of scripts. And, the Writers Strike just ended so they are still kind of getting back on their feet. Drake: It’s kind of a conceptual double album. The first record is kind of like “Magical Mystery Tour” in the air, like a 1960’s Pan Am flight with all this cool orchestral music and if there is turbulence on the flight, there will be a cool rock and roll song or if there’s a special thing we’re going through then you’ll hear like Mr. Kite type music. AGW: Sounds like cool Beatles-retro. Drake: Yeah and the other side is all about the sea. It’s a story, kind of like The Princess Bride where a guy leaves his girl in a town and goes off to sea and crashes on an island and all these legends come back about him becoming this great pirate and ruling the seas. She thinks ‘oh, man. He left me!’ and really he’s just on this island trying to get back to her so it’s this back and forth love story about love lost and all that. AGW: Wow, that’s a big story. Is that all going to be told in a music video or what? Drake: Hopefully, we’re gonna try and do a movie alongside it. AGW: Awesome. That sounds like “Lost” meets The Princess Bride. Drake: [laughs] Exactly. AGW: Who, right now, are you into musically? Drake: I love Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds, Elliott Smith, Harry Nilsson I’m really into right now, The Beatles and Queen. AGW: Retro and modern. Do you think too many movies are now getting spoofed in general? Like 300 came out and then there was Meet the Spartans. Drake: Those aren’t real spoof movies. You’ve got to look at good spoof movies like Hot Shots and Naked Gun and Airplane and the first Scary Movie is great. Abrahams and Zucker are all over that stuff. AGW: How hard was it to keep a straight face and in which scene was that the hardest? Sara told me about the Marion Ross farting on the couch scene. Drake: The farting scene with Marion Ross, we lost it. We could not do it. AGW: Are you doing any commentary for the Blue-Ray DVD version? Drake: We haven’t done anything yet but I’m really looking forward to that. I’ve never done one of those before. AGW: Your idea of perfect first date activities? Drake: Um, geez, probably the movies. I love movies. AGW: Who would you just kill to have act with you in a film? Drake: Daniel Day Lewis. It’s been that way for years. He just really knocks me out. AGW: Is “Drake and Josh in New York” a TV movie or a theatrical? Drake: That’s a rumor. There is a movie of the week that’s going to be coming at the end of the year but we don’t go to New York. AGW: Are you still good buds with Josh Peck? Drake: Oh yeah. We hang out a ton. AGW: So you’re gonna take him for a ride if you get a new Volkswagen. Drake: Yeah, exactly. AGW: Who do you play in the film College and what is that about? Drake: That’s more of an Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds meets Porky’s and American Pie. Just college kids, just a fun party movie. I play a Freshman that gets tormented. AGW: Anything you would like to say to your fans about Superhero Movie? Drake: The genre is getting destroyed by things like Meet the Spartans and Date Movie and this is not that. This is a thousand times better. This is [from] the guy that invented that genre. If you want to come and laugh for an hour and a half then come on! |
 
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Let’s
see, he plays a superhero named Dragonfly (cuz he’s bitten by one)
and the suit is hot and itchy. Looks like Drake Bell could take some rubber
suit notes from Tobey Maguire! As the star of the new spoof film Superhero
Movie, popular Drake (of the TV hit “Drake and Josh”)
is happy to suffer through suit woes for the sake of comedy. We wanted
to check in with the young actor about the film, his music and wazzup
in general for this young heartthrob.
AGW:
Talk about your new album that’s coming out. It tells a story?