"We'd done Kevin and Perry on Harry Enfield and Chums and thought it would be fun to make a Wayne's World-y thing while we still had the impetus of the TV programme. I went on holiday and Dave Cummings, who'd written for Harry Enfield and Chums, did the first draft. I came back and took over. A month later, it was all happening. It was really quick. We were given a few million to shoot over 12 days in Ibiza."
"The nightclub scenes were all filmed in one day and night at Amnesia. The scene in which Kevin and Perry get puked on by some clubbers was filmed in the afternoon. We invented the Inbetweeners basically! They couldn't shut the club in the evening, so the crowd weren't extras. They were actual clubbers, having a good night, and the DJs were actually DJing. I said to DJs Seb Fontaine and Roger Sanchez: Do you mind if I just come and interrupt your set?"
"I'd been swimming at the same beach a few years before and there had been a great big human poo next to me. I said: Get a bit of polystyrene, paint it brown, put some sweetcorn on it like eyes and pull it with fishing line so it looks like it's going in my mouth. And Kathy, you go in the water and look like you've just shat"
Kevin and Perry moved quickly from sketch to film with a first draft by Dave Cummings before the lead took over and production accelerated. A modest multi-million budget funded a 12-day shoot in Ibiza that concentrated nightclub scenes at Amnesia, using genuine clubbers and live DJs rather than extras. Improvisation solved logistical problems, most famously turning a missing boat into a grotesque gag involving polystyrene and sweetcorn. Punk youth experiences and a taste for antagonistic characters influenced casting and character dynamics, with Rhys Ifans playing a nastier persona that the leads found compelling.
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