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Idol chat: Meet the three leads of Hangover

The three leads of this week's The Hangover reveal exactly what went into the making of one of the year's most enjoyable comedies.

I met Bradly Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis in Las Vegas recently and you won't believe the outrageous things they said.

Rajeev Masand:Welcome gentlemen, thank you for joining us on the show.

The Hangover team: Thank you.

Rajeev Masand:Let me start by asking you guys, was it difficult to make this movie in Vegas? It is a distracting place, its throbbing with people, was it difficult to navigate through all of that and make this movie comfortable?

Bradley Cooper: I thought it was the opposite. I love the fact that we shot for a month and a half in Vegas because you couldn't really substitute that experience in LA. If we had reversed it and shot it first in LA, we wouldn't have been able to bring what we did to LA from Vegas. I liked it a lot actually.

Rajeev Masand: So nobody was distracted by the casinos or the women?

Bradley Cooper: That was part of it. That sort of helped. That's sort of us.

Ed Helms: I have never had a part this big in a movie before so I didn't quite realise that when you are every scene you are there all day long. So our call time in the morning was 5: 30 - 6 o'clock, you got back to your hotel room exhausted around 7- 7:30 in the night and we were asleep by 8:30, so the distractions weren't ....

Rajeev Masand: That's a first for Vegas?

Ed Helms: Yeah right, that's not what people exactly come to Vegas for.

Rajeev Masand:In a movie where the line between funny and gross is fairly thin, how do you know how much is enough?

Bradley Cooper: Todd Phillips (director) was pretty much our barometer...

Ed Helms: Which meant everything was really gross under Todd's supervision. But the thing is that it doesn't really matter while you are shooting, you can always take it back or up when you are editing it. So, while shooting, we weren't holding back or pushing things

Rajeev Masand:Sachs what's your opinion on this because a lot of gross things are left for you to do in the film?

Zach Galifianakis: What did I do in the film that was gross?

Bradley Cooper: You jerked off a baby.

Zach Galifianakis: That thing..I don't consider that as gross, I think it's being friendly.

Ed Helms: That's gross.

Zach Galifianakis: Yeah, I can't wait for my parents to see the movie. Another proud timeline.

Ed Helms: That was your joke though. Jacques invented that joke. Todd made him do it in the movie

Rajeev Masand:Some of the co-starts that you have worked in the movie are Mike Tyson, a tiger and a baby, which was the most difficult to shoot?

Zach Galifianakis: Tiger for me, scary.

Ed Helms: The babies, there were six babies and each one presented their own challenges. Tyson was easy.

Zach Galifianakis: Tyson was very easy to work with.

Bradley Cooper: We all had different relationships with the tiger.

Zach Galifianakis: I was intrigued by the tiger. I wanted to be close but I was scared.

Rajeev Masand: I guess this movie was a lot of fun to make. Well thank you guys.

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