Question: Zucker has been doing this for a very long long time how is what is the enduring appeal of what he does, why do you think it works?

Regina Hall: Well first of all I don't think they're that many people that can do it. Um and so you have to have someone who's really clever, and there is um and um a certain amount of wit and smartness that I think you need have to do a smart scoop and then kind of silliness so it's like a really specific combination and I think that um because so many people don't, can't do it it's not done that often and so when it's done well I think people just kind of naturally respond to it.

Q: This is the fourth time around for you and Anna in these films, why do you think they keep bringing you guys back and, and I'm assuming you're going to say you guys have some kind of special chemistry, can you talk about that?

RH: Yeah I think, I think that's probably just what it is, I think we just naturally, accidentally, organically met um a had a real similar sensibility and sense of humor and although the characters are completely opposite um you love them together and I don't know why and someone asked me why do I think that they're friends I said I don't think they have any other friends I don't think any one wants to be friends with Cindy and no one wants to be friends with Brenda so it's kind of you know choices, but I do think that we have a I do, we love working together, but even before we met the first time we just worked the first day, it was so instant and so natural, and so it just, it works, you know, I don't know its just kind of a, it's a great rare combination.

Q: What has the difference been from the first two with the Wayans to these two with Zucker?

RH: Um, well, you know, um I think Keenan is also wonderful at spoofing too, and everyone asks me what's the difference and I want to be really specific to say that I don't think either is any one any less, I think they are different, I think that they are tonally different, I think that um you know what Keenan and Marlon and Shawn the Wayans brought to the original Scary Movie you know is a testament because that is the reason there are three more because they certainly you know they built that audience, they started the franchise and they have a raunchier tone you know and that's not a bad thing, but it's a specific thing Keenan also is um you know coming from a comedic family, is so wonderful and open about improvisation, David is a little more specific because David loves physical comedy and so timing about falling, getting hit and you know having like actually responding to that and you know um and so he's less outlandish and so for him it's in the dialog you I don't know if you noticed in Scary Movie 3, and even if you look in this one, the fourth one or his Naked Gun series for example or in Airplane whatever, lot of times you miss things the first time because there is a lot in the dialog and he's, there's always stuff going on in the back ground that you may not notice the first time you watch it, so they're just both so different and so you know what they offer um, you know to an audience and to an actor is you know is it's kind of really specific, but you know no less so I think what David brought to the franchise has perhaps opened it up for people maybe who don't do raunchy you know what I mean or um, and then what Keenan did was, you know kids loved it, you know, teens whatever, so they're just so you know I compliment them both.

Q: Did the massive opening of the last one, did that raise your expectations?

RH: I wanted to shoot to raise my quote (laughter), um did it, I, we weren't expecting that from the third one. We were just hoping that it didn't, I don't even want to say it didn't bomb, but that it performed. I wasn't even necessarily thinking about numbers at that point, I was just thinking woo I wonder are people going to be like, you know, it was, it was a little scary because we did have the Wayans, and we were like are people going to be like the Wayans aren't in it let's not go see it, although the one thing we did have David Zucker who is a legend and so I think people were curious and not afraid because you know it wasn't in the hands of someone where they were like who the heck is that. Everyone remembers, you know, how he started the, you know, the spoof genre long ago, so…it was surprising though. I don't think, I don't think David or you know, Dimension um I don't think they necessarily expected it either. Although, you know the first one, you know made forty something million less than the third one so we were happy because the third one being PG-13 opened up, you know, for people who can actually come and see it you know younger audience.

Q: It went from R to PG-13, from two to three?

RH: Yeah, yeah, one and two were R and then three was PG-13.

Q: What were some of your favorite scenes in this forth installment as a viewer?

RH: Well I loved the Leslie Neilson scene with him giving the address to the UN (laughter), um, you know I thought that was great and I loved the scene where Anna is describing, she's silent and she keeps describing what she has to do to the um, to the woman um she's like, you know I love that. So those were two that kind of stood out, and I love the Brokeback scene there were a lot of scenes I liked actually, you know the Tom Cruise scene, the Brokeback scene, flashback you know.

Q: What about a favorite scene that you were in, that you enjoyed doing?

RH: You know, um, I still in shock that I was so turned on by the torture um, (laughter) paraphernalia. I'm concerned about Brenda still like I'm like you know I was, you know you shoot something and you forget, I forgot that I asked can I is it to late for me to try this on? (laughter) I forgot that, that reaction to the purple nurple, like, I was a little bit more ashamed of my arousal than anything else but, you know I had fun um, I actually had fun in “The Village” stuff because I like being in the period stuff after awhile the clothes.

Q: Did you have to tone her down a little bit?

RH: I did tone, I did tone her down, I didn't have to but you know I toned her just down, because she was just in high school and now she's a woman. You know when we started the first one they were in high school and the second one they were in college, and the third one she was a teacher, and you know now in this one she is a reporter so um, and she wasn't a good reporter, there was actually a scene that got cut out where Brenda…is…she goes she's saying I just report what I see, just the facts, and just then in the background there's because of the plane crash there's some EMS workers and they're white and they're trying to resuscitate a black man and she looks and she says get a shot of this the cops are beating up a black man (laughter) and then a bunch of black people come and and they're trying to stop you know they're taking the EMS guys off and trying to fight them and the man ends up dying, but the scene didn't make it so you know you don't see how bad she really is still as a reporter, but…

Q: Now why was that cut? Yeah, it's pretty funny…

RH: Yeah, you just, you know, you don't know it's cuz you know the thing about Scary Movie they're very specific about getting in and out. And so you know it's a scene but it happens right when they are walking out of the van, and she's just, she's the worst, everything is not, she gets everything wrong.

Q: If you could come out of Brenda and parody somebody in this movie, who would you have chosen and why?

RH: To parody someone?

Q: Like Deborah did Oprah, if you could do something like that outside of doing Brenda in a movie like this, who would you do?

RH: I don't know, um, that's a good question. I don't know, I'd have to think about that one on who I would actually parody in a spoof, that's a good question…do you have a suggestions, cuz I don't know.

Q: Being a veteran of this series, do you have a lot of say in what's funny and what's not, is there room for debate?

RH: Um, very little, very little, you know also we have our writers on set. It's very difficult when you have your writers on set because writers are, um you know they write, they put a lot in to it, and so they are careful and protective um…

Q: And Zucker is protective as well?

RH: Um…

Q: On what they write?

RH: No, yes he is protective, but Zucker is protective of the joke and the reveal of the joke, you know David is really specific about, you know like that, that scene in the bushes, was supposed to be two shots, and he was insistant that must be one shot, that must be one shot, so they had to have stunt people behind the bushes, under me and Anna, so that they can have the strength to pull the girls in, then we had to crawl where the stunt girls were and you know it's like he was, he's very specific about how a joke should look, and um, you know he, the words are important too, but you know, he kind of has an idea because that's what he's used to, so he's revealing that joke that's on the paper, so if you go changing it a lot, you know, it just kind of affects what his with his reveal, I can't really describe or the physical comedy that he sees in the joke.

Q: Do you have any off camera story of hanging out with the Saw guy, your character kind of disappeared and something happened?

RH: Oh Zoltar, yeah I think we know what happened, um she got it on with Zoltar and had the little baby and then you know I was a little disturbed because I was like, did I give Zoltar an STD, and I was like, I was like and they were like, but Brenda you saved the world the organism that killed them came from you, and I was like, well I guess I mean I never thought myself as a savior, but you know, when the writers start putting it to you like your like I did I did save the world, but yeah she went, she went in the back and she um, she got in on with Zoltar. The fighting, there was a line, there was a line that was replaced because it was PG-13, so when she comes back in Cindy says Brenda! and Brenda says you know, oh come on Cindy you know fighting makes me horny because she and the alien had just been fighting and then Cindy's kind of like you know well, she kind of yanks him up and gives him a kiss, we did alternate ones, and you know, yeah you know, he was there you know she almost died in the last one, or she though she died and I think she's coming back this time to do everything she didn't get to do before, or everyone, I don't know.

Q: They say if this episode performs well there will definitely be a Scary Movie 5, is Brenda coming back?

RH: You know we'll have to see if Brenda comes back, I mean you know, they've already talked about a Scary Movie 5, I try not to think of it, because then you know you have a stressful opening weekend, I just, you know I want people to like it and laugh and we'll worry about 5, they got about eighteen hundred more movies that have to come out, then they got to write it, and then they gotta, you know but you know they have to make sure the audience wants to still see it, because you know you don't want to be the dead horse, you don't want to be Police Academy 500 you know what I mean, because there is something, you know has to still be able to be ok. So we'll have to see when the audience sees it.

Q: You sound like you're a numbers watcher, like you can't help it…

RH: That I'm a numbers watcher…

Q: Yeah, on opening weekend?

RH: Well for Scary Movie specifically, because you're not going to get critical acclaim for you know this type of movie, we're not doing Capote (laughter). So it's not something, you know, that you can really read reviews you know it's nice to get, I think we got the best reviews for the third one, but in general a lot of people don't necessarily give comedies the best reviews anyways so I don't really read the reviews necessarily because, you know its hard and you know it kind of…it is what it is and so it's a movie that is done for a performance. It's a movie that you want to open big, and you want it to do well, and you want a lot of people to come out see it and laugh and I think, you know, Anna and I won't get our Oscars off this one so…we got to get our numbers

Q: What are you working on next?

RH: You know what, I am kind of in the midst of a project of my own that I'm in the midst of pitching, another one, and then another one that I need to get on the ball with producing. There's a little indie that I'm really in love with that I would to do called “Things Never Said”, um, and then I have two Indies coming out except I just don't know when called Danika and The Optimist.

Q: What is The Optimist about?

RH: The Optimist is based on a Russian play called the Optimist and um it's kind of about this wonderfully dysfunctional Russian family and it has Leelee Sobieski, and Rade Serbedzija and Shane West. It's really sweet. It's a sweet, sweet movie, I read the script and just you know had such a response to it, and I play a Russian, a Russian Jewish woman…GOTCHA!!! No I don't (laughter) I do, I play Susan she lives in the, in this um Russian community and you know, because it kind of takes place in Little Russia in LA, you know but it was shot in what they call Little Armenia and she lives there and she's connected to the family.

Q: In Danika you work with Craig?

RH: In Danika I work with Craig I play, Marisa Tomei is the lead. I play her Psychiatrist and confidant.

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