Ed Helms Certainly, the career did not end his parents imagined him. “Hangover” and its two sequels -As about as far from traditional, snappy, family -friendly comedy as a movie can get, and this went exactly against Helm’s upbringing, which he shared with host Ted Danson On the Siriusxm podcast “Where Everybody Know Your Name.”
“I grew up in a kind of oppressed southern home. Politically, very progressively, but still a very socially conservative type of environment,” Helms said (SA (via variety). “And so” The Hangover “is nuts. That’s not what they woke me up, to be in a movie like” The Hangover. “So my parents – at that time they had seen me do crazy things on ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The office‘ – And so there was some kind of acceptance already, but still I was nervous for my parents to see’ The Hangover. ‘
Helms, 35 years old when the first “hangover” movie was released in 2009 (and earned over $ 469 million), ended up putting down the nerves and taking their parents to the premiere.
“I look at my mom, the lamps come up, and she cries. Tears flow down her face, and for a second, I’m like,” I just broke my poor mother’s heart? “” Far from breaking her heart, Helms’ mom was impressed, and said to her movie star, “It was so fun” and gave him a big hug. “I just will never forget that it was such a special moment,” he recalled.
Rors have previously talked about The difficulty he had to do with the sudden fame that came with the immediate success of “The Hangover”, which catapulted him from TV favorite to Major Motion Picture Player.
“It was a tornado of fame and a lot of buffet. It was very overwhelming,” Helms told Conan O’Brien on his podcast 2022. “I really rolled a lot of the time, as in the aftermath of” The Hangover “, I got scripts for all these different types of projects.” Like what do I do? I don’t know. “I spun a little and panic about different things.
Helms credited their co -stars Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper to keep your feet on the ground.
“If it wasn’t for these guys, I don’t think I would have stayed healthy. But we all had each other to be like, you know, I don’t know, just to comment and measure ourselves,” Helms said. “And I think we kept each other from pushing too far. And to be too unprofessional.”
