What’s it been like working with Winter again? Is your relationship still there from the first film?Ĭonnick Jr.: That’s an incredible animal. But just as a general philosophy, I didn’t really base anything on the first one. Sometimes you can’t do that, obviously when you’re shooting out of sequence and you have to repeat scenes. So I treated it with a clean slate and just respond to things in real time on camera as much as I can. And just like I’ve lived three years since I did the first one, my character has too. This guy is not like me at all, but there are pieces of me in there. I have this weird anti-method way of doing things. I don’t like to watch myself too much in films. Is there anything you learned from making the first film, either from production or watching the film itself, that you deliberately wanted to do differently on this one?Ĭonnick Jr.: Not really, I think I saw it once at the premiere and that was enough. So to answer your question, we’ll finish shooting, and then everybody has lunch and we all just sit down and talk like we’re talking now. The three of us, I think, bring three different perspectives to it. I mean, Keith Urban is a very talented guy, and Jennifer is an incredibly bright mega-power in this business.
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The only thing I don’t get to do is perform, but I get to be around two really, really creative people.
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But American Idol is … I’m listening to singers all day. You’re required to do things that are sometimes not exactly what you signed up for, which is fun and interesting, but it’s different. I like making movies, but some days you show up and, like the other day, there was nothing to do but pretend you’re releasing a dolphin. It’s probably the most fun you can have working in this business for me, because it’s everything I like to do. How are you getting along with Jennifer Lopez and the other judges?Ĭonnick Jr.: Oh man, they are everything you hope they would be. You’d like to be able to pull from one, but that’s as different as it gets. Especially that day because I had no dialogue, there was just a bunch of stuff they were going to CGI in later. Those are completely different skill sets, I think. Then it becomes exciting, but the initial phases of that, I think, my character is going through that right now, when he realizes that she’s really growing up.Ĭonnick Jr.: No.
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It’s kind of a distancing that I have with her, and it’s hard as a parent to initially see that. Watching Cozi, who in real life is doing that too, they start to grow up and they start to think of things that maybe surprise you.
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They start to really come up with their own life philosophies and thoughts. Is there a new side to the character you’re getting to explore this time around?Ĭonnick Jr.: It’s interesting because it almost parallels what’s happening in my real life, when your kids kind of grow and they start to … you start to realize that they’re not as dependent on you as they were for all the right reasons. It’s fun because it’s the first time that all of us have been together on set with Ashley and the kids and me and Morgan, so it’s really fun. McCarthy, invents a new tail for Winter, and it’s a big deal because if it doesn’t work then we’re in trouble. Harry Connick Jr.: We are shooting a scene when Morgan’s character, Dr.