Will Arnett tormented his lactose-intolerant director on ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ with ice cream sundaes throughout the shoot.
The 44-year-old actor discovered Jonathan Liebesman suffered from the food allergy but also had a sweet tooth for ice cream so as a joke he presented him with sundaes every day, and the filmmaker couldn’t resist even though it made him ill.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Arnett said: "He didn’t resist. After it became a daily thing, he’d say, ‘No, no, no, no, no! I do not want any more ice cream!’ And we’d go, ‘OK, we’ll just leave it, uh, right here.’ He’d always buckle and eat it – like angrily, furiously!"
In ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Arnett plays Vern Fenwick, a news cameraman who is in love with reporter April O’Neil – played by Megan Fox.
‘The Millers’ star admits he was tasked with the role of injecting extra humour into the film – which he wanted to star in to impress his two sons, Archibald, six, and Abel, four, whom he raises with his ex-wife Amy Poehler.
He said: "The Turtles are a known entity – there’s a fun factor to them, almost a parody of superheroes, but they’re still superheroes, just jokier, more smart-ass and funny, and you have to keep that balance. My job was to make it lighter, to give you a contrast to the more hard-driving action scenes. There was a lot of space given to improvisation, to finding things that felt fresh, made sense and were funny. They wanted someone associated with April who could inject a little humour and levity, not in a farcical way but in a real way."
Will Arnett tormented TMNT director with ice cream
