Pete Davidson describes his experience on indie film Set up … and he’s not completely damn. The “SNL” alum said under “Hot Ones” in the video below that “There is nothing glamorous” with playing in independent movies.
He recently appeared in TIFF 2024 Indie Crime comedy “Riff Raff“In addition to Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Michael Angelo Corvino and Davidson’s own personal icon, Bill Murray. Davidson and Murray played two gangsters chasing down an ex-criminal family during the holidays. Despite the star -studded role, “Riff Raff” was not a “comfortable” experience.
“The movie we made – it’s a tough one because it’s an indie, so there’s no budget and there’s nothing glamorous about it,” Davidson said. “No one makes money, no one is comfortable, it’s strict as for the art.”
Davidson, to work with Murray, said: “But yes, he was like the type of captain and kind of soothing me … He is also my father’s favorite actor so it was a cool thing. My father’s favorite movie was” stripes “, so I had to tell him it and it was really cool to me. (…) he is a total professional.”
“Home” star Furthermore, reflected on being with some of his favorite comics: Jim Carrey hosted the section “Saturday Night Live” where Davidson’s “First Real Sketch” was broadcast. “I was so excited because he is Jim Carrey, one of the legends … The sketch bombed to high heavens … and it’s online if you want to look at a 20-year-old crumb with his idol,” Davidson said.
And a race with Dave Chappelle led to one of Davidson’s many now removed tattoos. “I have never admitted this because it is so humiliating, but when I was like 20, at a comedy club – it may have been the stick factory when Hannibal Buress used to run it – and I did a set, I was like 19 or 20, and Chappelle was in the corner,” he said. “That’s before he was back so seeing him was like crazy, go” what the hell? “And I got off the stage and he was like,” I looked at your whole set – it was really good, “and I was like,” Oh, thank you. “I was like,” You know, how will you come up with new things? … and guess who got it tattooed on his chest?
Davidson recently played with another legendary comic actor, Eddie Murphy, in Amazon Heist -comedy “The pickup.” Davidson told us Extra that the movie came at ideal time. “I felt my dad looked after me,” Davidson said of his deceased father who died in the attacks on September 11. “I was in a rough note and I was like“ okay. Here we go. It’s not over. “It was a estate.
