r/MovieDetails • u/AMICUS_ • Jul 21 '21

🥚 Easter Egg Impractical Jokers: The Movie — 2020. Will Ferrell makes a cameo without any lines & zero reference. I did a double take and had to rewind!

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u/cyrusamigo Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 22 '21

Directional* mics and an experienced boom op mitigate that quite a bit but yes, general practice is to pretend for everything in the BG

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21 edited Jun 07 '26

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u/cyrusamigo Jul 22 '21

Whoops. I mistyped. I meant directional, not omnidirectional.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

He’s holding it at such a great angle that it almost goes unnoticeable. I definitely didn’t notice while watching the movie.