Jason Schwartzman & Adam Scott Are Happy To Talk About Their Prosthetic Penises

Halfway through “The Overnight,” Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman get naked. Very naked. We say “very” not only because the scene is revealing, but because it’s a slow burn to get there. In the comedy, which premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival, Schwartzman plays a free-spirited artist who invites an anxious couple he meets at the neighborhood park (Scott and Taylor Schilling) to his palatial Los Angeles home for a playdate. When he and his wife (Judith Godrèche) suggest they put the kids to bed and have their own playtime, the night devolves into a series of oddities, all compounded by increasing amounts of alcohol and weed. One such curiosity involves Schwartzman’s character convincing Scott’s to let go of the self-consciousness he feels about his tiny penis and skinny-dip with the others.

Scott made sure to emphasize during the Q&A following the movie’s world premiere that he and Schwarztman, who guest-starred on “Parks and Recreation” in 2013, wore prosthetic genitals for the film. Given the culture of Sexy Sundance, when HuffPost Entertainment sat down with the actors in Park City, Utah, the next day, we had to lead with talk of prancing around nude in Patrick Brice’s movie. “The Overnight,” which Scott and his wife, Naomi, produced with Mark and Jay Duplass, sold to The Orchard with plans for a release later this year. In the meantime, put this comedy on your radar — it was one of Sundance’s best, and now you can watch Schwartzman take a bong hit knowing he needed a major tutorial about the “lighter part.”

The movie premiered only yesterday, but surely all of these interviews are about your prosthetic penises. On a scale of 1 to 10, how tired are you of talking about them?

Schwartzman: 10 being what?

Fucking over it.

Schwartzman: Zero. I’m happy to talk about it. It’s weird, I haven’t talked about prosthetic genitals all year.

You’re both married with children. Do you respond to the restlessness these characters are feeling now that they’re full steam ahead in the parenting process?

Schwartzman: Obviously there’s reality to always appraising your situation. That’s a part of life and marriage, and that’s what’s great about it. More what I kind of hooked onto was this idea of being a certain age and then, through your kids and your living circumstances, maybe having to make new friends. And what is that? They meet at a park through the kids. Playdates, I can totally relate to. Going to someone’s house for dinner that I don’t even know? I would never go to someone’s house that I don’t know for dinner.

Scott: Ugh. What a bummer.

Schwartzman: I cannot imagine. If either of you guys walked up to me like that, I would be in hell. All day long, I’d be like, “I think I’m getting ill, I have a fever.”

Scott: “I can’t just watch ‘The Bachelor’ in my underwear?”

Schwartzman: Oh, I know.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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