Cruising with the Cast of Sex Drive

In this funny road trip film, 18-year-old Ian Lafferty (cute Josh Zuckerman) "borrows" his brother's hot ride and heads across country with BFFs Felicia (Amanda Crew) and Lance (Clark Duke) to finally achieve his first hook up with Ms. Tasty, a hot babe he met on the internet. Of course, the trip includes that pesky older bro (James Marsden, of Hairspray and Enchanted) who wants his car back and some bizarre detours. In Amish country, quirky Ezekial (Seth Green) helps repair the car, Lance falls in love with a gorgeous Amish chick and finally, Josh and Felicia realize they can be more than BFFs.

We had a recent sit-down with the cast of the film and wanted to know if any of them took a memorable road trip in the past or had a fave coming of age film, who had a bully older brother, did they have fun on and off set, what about weird Amish rituals and hey, how did Seth Green get Fall Out Boy to appear and play in the movie anyway?

TeenHollywood: This film reminds me of those classic 1980's road trip or coming of age films. Do any of you have a favorite movie like that?

James: Yeah. [This movie] reminded me of the movies I grew up watching like Weird Science, 16 Candles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, those '80's trying-to-get-laid movies.

Josh: Harold and Maude. That's my instinct on that one. I love the relationships. We aimed for believable relationships in this film.

Amanda: I love the TV show "My So-Called Life". It was kind of before my time but my friend has the DVD and I went through all the episodes in like two days. Claire Danes, Jared Leto... it is so great.

Seth: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World probably. That's a great road trip movie. Last time I saw it was right before we did Rat Race because I wanted to see how close we were. Everybody's in it and everybody is acting insane!

TeenHollywood: James, were you an older brother or did you have older brothers? Were you a bully like your character Rex?

James: I was in between. All three of us were about a year and a half apart. We spent our whole childhood beating each other up and fighting. There was a real competitiveness between the three of us for identity, for friends but I wasn't the bully. I was like the Sheriff, sort of the peacemaker. I think I might have scared Josh a little bit. I thought, the less connection and "buddiness" we get [on set], the more it's going to help our dynamic in the movie.

Josh: [James] was constantly toying with me for the most part. I could never be sure if he was serious but he was nice to me playing around. But, yeah, I had an older brother but he wasn't mean. He's my half-brother so I didn't grow up that much with him. When I was older, he'd take me to places and we'd go on adventures but I did have a best friend named Danny and he had two older brothers who beat the s**t out of me. They would pin you down and shoot us with paintball guns. But it was character-forming. If I could get through my friend Danny's brothers, then I could get through a lot of things.

TeenHollywood: Did anyone ever take any road trips growing up?

Seth: Not really but I'm trying to put together a bus trip, state-to-state tour for "Robot Chicken" for our new Star Wars DVD next July. We'll all hit locations and throw parties across the country. We'll be cruisin' across the country like an indie rock band.

Amanda: I drove from Vancouver to Los Angeles with my friend and my dog who was having an anxiety attack. He doesn't like to be on the highway.

TeenHollywood: Amanda, the guys have said you are the kind of gal who can really just hang with and buddy with them, true?

Amanda: Secretly, I'm not a girl. No! I am definitely like my character. In my life I have a lot of girlfriends but I can hold my own with a crowd of boys which was basically the whole shoot, hanging out with a bunch of guys which was fun for me.

Josh: A bunch of rather crude guys, sometimes.

Amanda: Yes, I came back home with a very dirty mind and a foul mouth.

TeenHollywood: Your character Felicia runs around barefoot for a while in this film. Wasn't that painful?

Amanda: Yes. They actually made these feet covers like the little Hobbits wore...

Josh: Yeah, like Frodo Baggins.

Amanda: I still have them. They're comfortable but kinda creepy looking. Looks like you have swollen feet.

TeenHollywood: Speaking of weird pieces of wardrobe, Josh, how horrible was that wacky donut costume you have to wear?

Josh: The donut. It was night shoots so I'm already tired. Sometimes you would be comfortable and everybody else would be cold. The way it got to me was on my shoulders and there's this hole for the eyes. People would pry open that to get me some air.

Amanda: Didn't you fall a couple of times?

Josh: I did and couldn't get up. They were laughing at me.

TeenHollywood: Were you actually working the mouth like a puppet?

Josh: Yes. It ended up that I could do it pretty well. People just loved it.

TeenHollywood: What did you guys do off set for fun?

Amanda: Hollywood, Florida is a very exciting town.

Josh: There's a Whole Foods there.

Amanda: That was our big adventure, going to Whole Foods.

Josh: Going to the market. Dried mango is fantastic.

Amanda: But we were lucky that the hotel was on the beach. There was a lot of lounging and hanging by the pool. We had a great cast everyone was cool, crude, no divas at all.

TeenHollywood: Seth, your Amish guy is hilarious! Did you almost crack yourself up a couple of times?

Seth: I think what's inherent about my character is he takes a certain joy in being an a**hole. So, I think it was less about me personally tying to keep from laughing as much as letting that come through.

TeenHollywood: Evidently, the Amish really do have a coming-of-age ritual called Rumspringa in which teens just can go wild in the "real world" before they pledge themselves to their church?

Seth: Oh yes. There's a great documentary called "The Devil's Playground" which is really disturbing. Oh my god, this is authentic. Anytime you watch underage kids doing illegal stuff, drugs, alcohol, rampant sexuality, these things that tend to go on in Rumspringa, it's shocking and disturbing. The camera captures it all. They're like yelling 'I don't give a f**k'! Wooooooo'. You're like 'oh my God, I'm not sending my kid to that college'! [we all laugh]

TeenHollywood: How long does this actually go on?

Seth: I believe it's meant to only be a period of months but it gives them the opportunity to go to college, they can go into the outside world.

TeenHollywood: Why do they ever come back?

Seth: The influence they have on them as kids is so profound and they are out there without a family or support system and one of the things that you sacrifice, should you chose the outside life, is your family. You lose your family.

TeenHollywood: The scene between your Amish character and Fall Out Boy was pretty funny. How did you get them to appear in the film?

Seth: I've known those guys for a while so I was just giving them s**t. When they were talking about bands for the movie, they were at the top of the list so I texted Pete Wentz and told him I was in it and it would be fun if they did it. He was like "Is it funny?" I'm going, "It's hilariously funny" so they're in it. They wanted to do a bit about how I would fix their bus. I didn't tell them any of the s**t I was going to say ahead of time so they had to keep a straight face. I was a fan of theirs before we met.

TeenHollywood: What were you like off camera.. in character?

Seth: No, I don't get all Daniel Day Lewis about it. If I'm playing a more dramatic character, I might keep the persona on between takes. I think, from doing voice overs and improv, I've gotten very used to going in and out of it. But we got to improv a bunch.

TeenHollywood: Do you have a stable of comedy pals you want to always work with?

Seth: Ever since it was implied that there was a 'comedy wheel' among Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell, everyone is trying to announce that they have their own comedy militia. This is not accurate I think. It's just collections of friends that tend to work together often. I do have my close-knit group of people that I'm making stuff with but it's not exclusive. We try and fold other people in.

TeenHollywood: Like these cool people.