Among the vast filmography of Dwayne Johnson, there’s a movie that doesn’t get talked much about but delivered one of his most memorable performances. The audience experienced a laugh riot with the 2010 Adam McKay directorial The Other Guys. While the movie was filled with several unforgettable moments, the particular scene featuring Johnson along with Samuel L. Jackson will always be McKay’s favorite.
The Other Guys had Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in the lead with other major names like Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dwayne Johnson supporting them. According to Adam McKay, the rooftop scene of Johnson and the Nick Fury actor will always hold a very special place in his heart.
The special scene ft. Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson
When Adam McKay sat for an interview with Mental Floss, he shared some exclusive facts about his 2010 comedy The Other Guys. Even though the movie isn’t significant like other McKay comedies such as Anchorman or Talladega Nights, it has developed a fan following over the years.
The fans saw one of the most shocking and hilarious scenes in the movie when Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and P.K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) jumped from a rooftop to their death. According to the Oscar-winning filmmaker, that particular scene from The Other Guys will always stay on his list of favorite moments from his movies.
“I would say the family prayer scene in Talladega Nights, the Jenga tower scene in The Big Short, the other one was in Anchorman, when Jack Black kicks the dog off the bridge where the audience made this weird sound and were so stunned by it. And then Danson and Highsmith jumping off the building —oh my god, I had so much fun watching that with test audiences. No one saw it coming.”
The scene occurs as the two cops played by The Rock and Jackson reach a rooftop while chasing some criminals before jumping to their doom. As admitted by McKay, the “Aim for the bushes” scene gave a “tingle in his b*lls”. He explained that the audience never thought that stars like Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson wouldn’t be able to survive the fall.
“You would hear people in the audience go, ‘Yeah right, they would never survive that.’ But when they hit, there was such a collective inhale from the whole audience, and then just explosion of laughter.”
The most hilarious part about the scene was how it raised hype among the fans for an epic action sequence before taking the exact opposite way.
How were Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson cast in The Other Guys?
Talking to Mental Floss, Adam Mckay stated that it was due to the executive producer Kevin Messick, that the casting of the two cops was executed so perfectly.
The Don’t Look Up director revealed that they needed two of the biggest action names for the roles to make it more surprising for the audiences.
“We wanted two big action stars that you would never think would die in a movie, and boy, Kevin really helped us get them. He had some connection to Dwayne Johnson, and he worked the phones to really help us get Sam Jackson.”
The Other Guys showed us the story of Detectives Allen and Terry played by Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell respectively who discovered a gigantic financial scandal. The movie garnered a positive response from critics and became another example of unforgettable comedy in the filmmaking career of Adam McKay.
The Other Guys can be streamed on Prime Video.
Source: Mental Floss
