Of the many screen shocks at A24 Dicks: The MusicalIt’s no surprise that Megan Thee Stallion has achieved yet another success.
In an interview with The Messenger, writers and stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson admitted they “can’t believe she’s in the movie” as they talked about “a devastating reality, a dream come true.”
“When the producer called us and said she agreed to do it, my lover was in the other room and thought that someone in my family had died because I screamed,” Jackson recalled.
Sharp added: “I’m watching the screening now and when it comes to her number I still think, ‘Oh my God, she’s in this movie!’ Like, this is wild!”
Dicks follows alpha males Craig (Sharp) and Trevor (Jackson), who discover they are identical twins separated at birth and set out to put their parents (Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane) back together.
Bowen Young plays God and Megan makes her feature film debut as Gloria, Craig and Trevor’s cruel boss in Vrooma, where they finance their alpha male lifestyle by selling parts for robot vacuum cleaners.
The Grammy Award winner also performs the satirical girl boss anthem “Out Alpha the Alpha,” written for Meg by Sharpe and Jackson. “We tried to write it in her voice,” Sharp said.
And although Megan “knew the song,” director Larry Charles said the artist’s team did not tell her that she also had choreography, dialogue and an additional scene. But that didn’t stop her from stealing the show.
“We rehearsed a little bit and shot the whole song in one day,” Clark said. “And she was impeccable, reassuring and patient, really wanting to get it right. So she was very easy to work with.”
Jackson recalled filming Megan’s scenes on “the first day of shooting,” when he was still aware that the film was even being made.
“And it was also like leaving the body. It was like, ‘Wow, we really fooled them,'” he added. “They make a movie and then on the first day Megan Thee Stallion just kills it and does her song.”
Sharp described the experience as “the exact opposite of a ‘don’t meet your heroes’ moment because she was so fun to work with and she’s kind and sweet and funny and just an ‘I’ll do anything’ game.” She didn’t question any of the crazy stuff.”
The film is based on Fucking identical twins, the paired show Sharp and Jackson created at Upright Citizens Brigade. Although the show is described as off-Broadway, Sharp said that is an “incredibly generous term, but it’s imprecise.”
“We were asked when we were making it if we thought of it as a film,” he added. “Absolutely fucking not. Never in any world did we think they would make a movie about this.”
Sharp expressed gratitude to Clark for supporting them and said, “This movie can never hold back. He said, “If he doubts himself one day, he will fall apart.” … If we find it funny and we believe in what it will lead to, then it was worth it.”
Admitting that it was “a very strange film”, Clarke explained: “I made it clear to everyone that this was the style of the film.
Dicks: The Musical is now playing in cinemas.