“But I had my skater face,” she says, breaking into a hilariously fake smile. “For me it was very exciting just to lace up skates every day as part of my job.” As for Poehler, “I was probably the worst skater of the four and had to learn the most,” she admits. Having grown up in Canada, Arnett had an advantage. With much of the film’s drama set on the ice, the shoot involved considerable skating for the four major players, and some serious training. “We’re not a comedy team,” Arnett says, “and we had decided that we didn’t want to spend our lives working together.” But the lure of “Blades” was irresistible and, as for the prospect of working with Ferrell, “I would shine that gentleman’s shoes,” Poehler offers. “And, weirdly, they were all signed, ‘Love, Ben Stiller.’ And they said if I didn’t do this, they would hurt me and my family.” Arnett, whose answers are more serious and considered, explains that, in actuality, the couple was involved in early readings of the script and decided that with folks like Stiller and Ferrell involved, “Blades” was going to be something special. “I got a couple of threatening letters in the mail, from cutout magazine letters,” Poehler explains when asked how she got involved in the project. Producer Ben Stiller corralled a constellation of comedy stars for the outrageously funny film. She and husband Will Arnett, best known for his stint as Gob on “Arrested Development,” play Stranz and Fairchild Von Waldenburg, a smilingly monstrous pair of skating siblings who are the arch-rivals to the male skating pair of Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder). Sitting down with Poehler is a delightfully dizzying adventure, as she sprinkles real answers in between the hilarious improvised riffs that seems to flow effortlessly from her lightning-fast mind. “Isn’t that always the question? Isn’t that life’s question – where do my hands go?” She finally concludes, “I always start every film and every script with, ‘Where do my hands go?'” “Where does the hand go?” she asks in mock seriousness. “The first thing I thought was, how are those guys going to do the lifts?” Amy Poehler says, remembering when she first heard the premise for “Blades of Glory,” a comedy about two disgraced male figure skaters banned from men’s competition who return to the ice to compete as a pair.
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