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4/20 Special: Jay Chandrasekhar’s ‘Super Troopers’ Return | The Big Picture (Ep. 457)

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey chats with comedic actor, director, and writer Jay Chandrasekhar about returning to make a ‘Super Troopers’ sequel 17 years after the original. Chandrasekhar also discusses what it’s like being an Indian American in Hollywood, returning to his roots, and bridging the divided audiences in comedy. More from Sean Fennessey on Movies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

But that's one of the things about show business, right?

0:04.8

When I walk around, everybody who interacts with me says, hey, when's the next super troopers

0:09.9

coming out?

0:10.9

So in my mind, there's a huge audience.

0:13.5

But the reality is they just happen to run into the super troopers guy.

0:17.3

So they said the one thing to him that you would say.

0:26.2

I'm Sean Fantasy, editor and chief of the ringer.

0:28.4

And this is the big picture, a conversation show with the most interesting filmmakers

0:31.7

in the world.

0:33.4

It's 420, and I'm not above a little 420 content.

0:36.6

Neither is today's guest, Jay Chandra Sekar.

0:39.0

Jay is a member of the Broken Lizard Comedy Troop, a quintet of friends who met at Colgate

0:42.7

University nearly 30 years ago.

0:44.9

The world was exposed to Broken Lizard with super troopers.

0:47.4

They're raunchy stone comedy about a group of goofball highway patrolmen in Vermont.

0:50.9

That movie became a dorm room classic, playing on a loop on DVD players across the country.

0:55.4

Chandra Sekar and the crew have made movies like Beer Fest and Club Dread in the Interim,

0:59.1

but this weekend, they're back in uniform for super troopers too, more than 17 years

1:03.1

after the original.

1:04.4

Chandra Sekar has led a fascinating career as a director, taking for higher gigs like

1:08.0

The Duques of Hazard Movie, The Broken Lizard Films, and dozens of episodes of TV, including

1:12.3

memorable runs on arrested development and community.

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