It was Matthew McConaughey‘s thought to have membership proprietor Dallas play the bongos. (They usually’re the actor’s personal bongos, too.)
“Nicely, I am introducing this man, performed by Kevin Nash, a WWF wrestler, and he is Tarzan, he is one in every of my guys and he performs Tarzan,” the actor defined to the San Francisco Chronicle, “so it is a jungle theme that he comes out to. So I mentioned, ‘I wanna get the djembes and actually make a jungle beat and name him out.’ Now it is a fairly good scene nevertheless it in all probability will not be as effectively remembered as my October-1999, get-arrested-for-playing-the-congas-in-the-birthday-suit scene.”
He did not initially imply to poke enjoyable at himself like that, however he leaned into it as soon as he realized it was all anybody was fascinated about. “Humorous how that was my most public session,” he quipped to Backstage of his naked-bongos arrest, “despite the fact that I used to be on their lonesome. However my thought was that Dallas needed to give these guys entrances and exits, I’ve to be this host with sounds and lights and music. It was by no means. ‘Oh, that may be humorous for me to try this in a film.’ What I mentioned was. ‘That’s what Dallas would do.’ 5 steps later, I assumed, ‘Oh, guess what? Due to that incident, it makes this even funnier.'”
McConaughey’s all-in efficiency actually wowed his co-stars, Tatum telling E! Information in 2012, “I did not suppose anyone might are available in and beat what we wrote on the web page, and boy have been we unsuitable. On the primary day, he was doing stuff we could not even think about.”