A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Brings Group Sex, Laughs to Tribeca

Gregory and Huyck can thank a certain show on The CW for the closeness and camaraderie of the cast.

Though it takes place in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy was actually shot in Wilmington, N.C., which allowed the cast to get very close during filming by virtue of being away from home. "Wilmington is where they shoot One Tree Hill," deadpanned Nick Kroll. "So every day was an adventure."

Will Forte is one kick-ass Donkey Kong player.

Former SNL cast member Will Forte has a small role in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy as one-half of a married couple not invited to the orgy (actress Lucy Punch plays his onscreen wife). Not that he minded the light shooting schedule. "I would be working like every third or fourth day, so on the off-days I would go to the Blue Post, which is this bar" -- the same bar used in Eastbound and Down as Kroll pointed out -- "and I played Donkey Kong the entire time. And I got really good at it. So good, that there was a guy who was a stand-in who was part of that Twin Galaxies group from King of Kong. I had him take a picture because I was proud of this score. I was a super geek. He sent it to the guys at Twin Galaxies. I was 29th [in the world]."

Don Johnson will steal shoes if you let him.

Don Johnson -- yes, that Don Johnson -- has one scene in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy as Sudeikis' onscreen dad, the owner (and subsequent seller) of the summertime animal house. "Don Johnson didn't even read the script," said Huyck. "He saw the title -- A Good Old Fashioned Orgy -- and he was like, 'I'm in!'" Once on the set, Johnson didn't want too much handling. "He showed up on the set, and he didn't really let us direct him. He comes in and goes, 'I know how this works. [...] I'm going to block the scene myself. I'll have the cow there; I go there.'" Johnson even had thoughts on his wardrobe. "'It's a pink shirt. I got this, and I want those shoes.' And he left with the shoes. He stole those shoes from our production!" A year later, Gregory was at a table reading for The Other Guys when he ran into Johnson. "I noticed he had these awesome sneakers on. I said, 'Really cool sneakers. Did you get those from a shoot?' And he was like, 'Yeah!' And I said, 'So, you stole the shoes from our shoot?' And he goes, 'Yeah!'" The moral of the story: "If you're making a movie with Don Johnson, in the budget, [write] 'shoes.'"

Gregory and Huyck don't have any hard feelings, however; he is Don Johnson.

Said an awed Huyck: "His hair: perfect, like a pile of caramel falling down his head."

Comparison between A Good Old Fashioned Orgy and The Big Chill is both expected and welcomed.

Before shooting, the cast got together to watch the seminal Lawrence Kasdan classic as a group, and a kitchen-set cast sing-along to Biz Markie toward the end of the film can certainly be viewed as a tribute. "Older white folks co-opted Motown music -- that was, like, their tunes," said Sudeikis. "And Gen-Xers have certainly done that with hip-hop. So that was a direct homage." Echoed Huyck: "I would say, it was a movie that we all loved, and there was something about it where it was about -- a funeral that they're all coming together for -- but it really is about a group of friends and how they've changed as adults. Ours is really similar, hopefully in some ways, other than its an orgy that brings them all together at the end."

Check out the poster for A Good Old Fashioned Orgy below. The film is scheduled to hit theaters in September.

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