Vince Vaughn - Brief Article - Interview

Interview, June, 2000 by Jon Favreau

GOOD NEWS--THE TWO WHO MADE SWINGERS ARE AT IT AGAIN

JON FAVREAU: What was the most triumphant moment of your childhood?

VINCE VAUGHN: The first time I woke up dry.

JF: [laughs] You were a bedwetter?

VV: I was a bedwetter till very late, Favs. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

JF: I'm no psychologist, but that's not a condoned method of controlling bedwetting. Anyway, Vince, people have called you an overnight success from Swingers [1996], but actually you had done a number of things before, from after-school specials to an appearance on 21 lump Street. [ldots]

VV: Yes, I did a lot of guest-starring. I was on China Beach. I was on Doogie Hawser.

JF: And now we're getting ready to go to New York to shoot this movie, Made, our first collaboration since Swingers.

VV: Hopefully we won't kill each other before it's over.

JF: Before that, however, audiences can see you The Prime Gig [due out in August], in which you play a telemarketer. What appealed to you about the role?

VV: My dad was a salesman and my mom did a lot of sales too-real estate and stocks and stuff-so it's a world I grew up in and one I was always fascinated by. And I liked the script, as well as the other actors involved: people like Ed Harris, Julie Arnold, Wally Shawn, and George Wendt.

JF: What profession did your dad want for you?

VV: My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

JF: Speaking of parenthood, Vince, what advice would you give to your son about sex?

VV: About what?

JF: About sex. If you had a son, what advice would you give to him?

VV: I would just tell him to handle it with class and be a gentleman and to enjoy himself.

JF: And what would you tell your daughter?

VV: Don't ever leave the house[ldots]No, I would say the same to her.

JF: All right Mr. Vaughn, let's close it up with a couple quick questions: If you were an animal, what would you be?

VV: I'd be a Favreau. That's what I'd be.

JF: Nice. I see. OK. And if you could costar with any actor in history, who would it be?

VV: I'd costar with Jon Favreau.

JF: As you do in the upcoming release Made. All right. Vince, I think that'll do it. I don't want any 2:00 A.M. phone calls saying "Could we take out that line, please?" Understand?

VV: You got it.

Jon Favreau is an actor and screenwriter. Vince Vaughn, photographed with Molly and Fluffy the donkeys, wears jeans by Levi's.

In creating these very special issues, Bruce Weber, his team, and Interview hit all the hot spots: New York, Los Angeles, and Davie, Florida! In one wild ride, we visited the homes of twenty actors, singers, directors--and the odd legend or two--producing some of the most original and spontaneous photographs of these issues.

In Florida, we brought some furry and feathered pros to pose with Cerys Matthews, Eve, and Owen Wilson, to name a few. Birds and Animals Unlimited, a national animal-training outfit that has supplied the talent for movies like Doctor Dolittle and 101 Dalmatians, sent trainers Adash McCabe (top left), Thomas Castiglione (bottom right), and Jay Stutz to work their own particular brand of magic between their animal charges and Mr. Weber's lens. And lastly, the Florida farm of Dennis Deveaugh, his wife Nancy (bottom left), and their children (their son, top right photo, center)--a place that everything from ducks to llamas call home--became a petting zoo in overdrive when Benjamin Bratt, Vince Vaughn, and Destiny's Child, among others, wasted no time in cuddling up to their new animal admirers.

Our deepest thanks to Birds and Animals Unlimited and to Dennis and Nancy Deveaugh for their support in the production of these special issues and for making sure that the safety protocols and standards for animal care that they are known for were maintained on our shoot.