Zach Galifianakis was quizzed recently by MTV about his apparent involvement in getting Martin Riggs himself, Mel Gibson, the boot from The Hangover 2.
"I do not consult on the movies that I'm in," he said. "I just show up and I say my lines, usually terribly, and I do consult on dialogue. But as far as hiring and firing of actors, I have no insight into that world whatsoever." Apparently there was friction between Galifianakis and his Due Date co-star Robert Downey Jr. as the latter is a friend of Gibson, who gave him a role in The Singing Detective when he was right out of jail. The Hangover 2 and Due Date director, Todd Phillips, also came out in defence of Gibson saying "No one was ever fired. It's a term that is so obscene to me... Someone was doing me a favour to come in for a two-minute cameo, and we changed it. It wasn't like we fired somebody. (Gibson) was just doing a favour from the beginning."
Due Date is released this Friday, November 5th, and isn't as funny as The Hangover - in the case the poster made you believe so by saying it was.
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