I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.'
— Todd Phillips
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My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom.
The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.
On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza.
And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.
Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting.
He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.
I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'