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The first thing we had were their names, Mumolo told Vulture.
Kristen was like, One day were gonna write a movie for these women.
We wanted to have fun writing and not censor ourselves and see where we ended up.
But in their original drafts of the character, her history was even more tragic.
We were looking up everything about Florida being like, What else could happen to someone from Florida?
Seagulls on the Sand, Can You Hear Edgars Prayer?
We really wanted to have this emotional, sad spy ballad with dancing, Mumolo said.
We were like, how much can we do?
We dont want to hurt him!
Plus, he came up with Edgars climactic gesture on the beach.
But that was the most emotionally dramatic thing to do, standing in the ocean with his feelings.
We were looking for what would be a good middle-aged lady ridiculous dance remix, Mumolo said.
We were typing in things on YouTube, and Kristen stumbled on that.
That came up as we were just writing and having fun.
But who doesnt have that person in their life that they just think would have it all together?
We were shocked when she said she would do it, Mumolo said.
It was like meeting the real-life Trish!
Shes all of our patron saint.
Hes played by Andy Garcia, though the actor is listed in the credits as simply Tommy Bahama.
I mean, can you think of anyone else?
The crab, we knew it was going to be a big swing, Mumolo said.
We had fun with it, and we were just hoping that other people would have fun with it.
It was a risk that everyone took.
That was the one talking animal that survived, thank God.
For him, Wiig and Mumolo recruited actuallounge singer Richard Cheese.
From there, Wiig and Mumolo asked Cheese to come up with some songs early in their process.
We had a lot of different kinds of songs that he sang.
