The biggest pop culture references in Osgood Perkins' 'The Monkey'

No, no, no, no, no, no

The coroner said it was an accident, but it was no accident

It was a monkey. Can you talk to me a little bit about how you chose to cast yourself in this movie

I just, you know, I wrote the part. The part came first

I didn't, I wasn't writing a part for myself. It was inspired by Randy Quaid in National Am Poon's Vacke

Real tomato ketchup patty? Oh, nothing but the best. Deep affinity for that movie

That was a really formative movie for me when I was a kid. Likewise, the swimming pool is from vacation

We actually shot a scene of that actress driving a red Ferrari

We just didn't put it in the movie. It didn't fit in the picture

Watching it, I was like, oh, is this Christmas vacation or is this fast time? So I'm curious. I'd love to hear a little bit more about that

You know, a lot of what I do is supposed to be reminiscent of other things

things. It's supposed to have pop value, pop in the sense of sort of war halls pop, right

Reframing something that everybody understands and sort of giving it importance because it's

understandable, because it's generic. I'm kind of elevating that stuff. National Impoon's Vacation

was just one of those movies at a certain time of my life that really meant a lot to me, like really, really landed for me. And the movie was supposed to feel like a, they're supposed

to have a sort of a sentimental nostalgia to it. And the only way I know how to do that

do that is to insert my own sentimental nostalgia. I can't guess what your sentimental nostalgia

might be. So I just went for the stuff that felt resonant to me and was playful

Everything okay up there? Yeah, everything's fine