14. Bill Hader Got His Role By Crashing The Studio
"I kind of stalked them," Hader, who plays Fear, later admitted. He showed up claiming to be a huge fan, and requested a tour, using it to meet Docter and producer Jonas Rivera. They cast him, then immediately asked if he could use his working history with Amy Poehler (who eventually played Joy) on Saturday Night Live to get her into the project. "We don't want her to think we're weird," they said, with touching humility. The Pixar filmmakers then decided turnabout was fair play and "kind of stalked" the offices of SNL, asking its producer Lorne Michaels for permission to observe and research. The scene in Dream Production owes a lot to what they saw about the process of assembling skits quickly for TV.
T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.
