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Ken Marino unpacks how quickly Jennifer Aniston agreed to make a funny cameo in his new comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Marino, his collaborator David Wain and Aniston have been friends for years; she starred in their 2012 movie Wanderlust
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is in theaters July 10
Ken Marino was impressed with how quickly Jennifer Aniston agreed to make a cameo in his new comedy.
Marino, 57, opened up to PEOPLE about the hilarious celebrity cameos that feature in his new movie Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Passat the comedy’s Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday, June 23. Gail Daughtry sees Zoey Deutch portray a Midwestern bride-to-be who travels to Hollywood to seduce Jon Hamm — playing a heightened version of himself — after her fiancé cashes in his own celebrity “hall pass” before their wedding. Hamm’s Mad Men costar John Slattery also plays himself in the movie, on top of a host of other celebrity cameos.
Marino says that casting Hamm, 55, and Slattery, 63, was pretty simple, given that the men have all worked together before. Recruiting Aniston, whom Marino has known for years, too, was “pretty much the same,” he says. “We’re all old friends now and you call up and you say, ‘Well, it would be great if we can get somebody like Jennifer Aniston.’ And then we went, ‘Well, let’s ask Jennifer.’ And then of course we were expecting she’s busy, she’s doing something, but she’s so cool that she was like, ‘Yeah, when do you want to do it?’”
“And she’s done that before with us,” Marino adds. “I did a thing called Burning Love a long time ago and she came and did one day on that and it was so funny and wonderful, and such a trooper and a team player. And she’s so good.”
John Slattery, Ben Wang, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Zoey Deutch and Ken Marino in Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex PassCredit: Sony Pictures
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass‘s cast includes Sabrina Impacciatore, Joe Lo Truglio, Ben Wang, Miles Gutierrez-Riley and more, excluding the cameos in which several celebrities portray themselves. Marino, who cowrote the comedy with longtime collaborator David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer), even plays a former PEOPLE photographer who plays a key role in tracking down Hamm’s whereabouts in L.A.
“We didn’t have time to take too many big swings,” Marino says of their stunt casting efforts. “I mean, when you’re lucky enough to have been working in this town for this long for over three decades, almost four decades, you know people who are different levels of hot shots, and so we reached out to the people we wanted to be in the movie and they all said yes. So it was nice.”
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Ben Wang, Ken Marino, Zoey Deutch, John Slattery and Miles Gutierrez-Riley in Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex PassCredit: Sony Pictures
Hamm previously appeared in Wain’s 2007 comedy The Ten, while both he and Slattery starred in the 2015 Netflix prequel series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, which debuted as Mad Men was coming to an end that same year. Aniston costarred in Marino and Wain’s 2012 movie Wanderlust with Paul Rudd. As Marino says, he and Hamm have known each other since they were both trying to break into Hollywood in the 1990s.
“We would be sitting in many, many rooms together, and so we became friends a long time ago when we were young men and David and John and I all played poker together,” he recalls. “So, when we wrote the script, we wrote it and we got to now see if Jon would do it. And so he read it and he said, ‘Absolutely. Let me send it to Slattery.’ And then Slattery said, ‘This is ridiculous. I’ll do it.’ “
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is now in theaters.
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