Fool’s Paradise, an upcoming emotional buddy comedy, doesn’t seem much like legendary horror and fantasy director Guillermo del Toro’s bag. The movie follows a recently released mental patient — played by Charlie Day — who has lost his ability to speak. The helpless Day is quickly discovered by a publicist (Ken Jeong) and used as a lookalike for a method actor who refuses to leave his trailer. Like every good buddy comedy, the trailer shows a slew of hijinks and shenanigans, the perfect mix for your run-of-the-mill comedy movie.
But after some excellent input, and some grounded rewrites, Ken Jeong reveals in an exclusive interview with Looper that it’s a lot more than that. When the film first wrapped nearly five years ago, Jeong shares, Day sent a screener to Guillermo del Toro. The pair worked with one another back in 2018 on the set of Pacific Rim, and their long history made del Toro a perfect early viewer for the film. Del Toro has always had a knack for representing the finer points of human emotion, and his feedback for Day was all about the heart of the movie. Jeong recalls del Toro telling Day, “You should make Ken more the emotional core of the movie.”
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