Hey Skitch! Steve Zahn was on P&S talking about the That Thing You Do! watch party
“Tom and I were talking last week… like this was a week ago… and we were like, ‘hey, you know what we should do? We should like a commentary. We should play the movie’… and we just thought of it being this little thing that we would do for fun. And then we had a call with all the guys and then it was like, yeah, let’s see if we can do it, let’s start a YouTube page… and now we’re doing interviews. Five days later this is insane, it’s grown so much!”
So maybe Tom Everett Scott and Steve Zahn together really are Spartacus? Or maybe it just says something about the camaraderie of this cast. (Or both?) During our conversation this morning, Steve confirmed how close the “band” remains to this day. He credits it back to Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman who had the four of them hang out and play music together for a month before even working on the script. Out of that movie experience, these four guys created a friendship that has lasted all these years, something, Steve points out, does not happen in Hollywood.
That’s why it was so easy to arrange a That Thing You Do! watch party happening this Friday night on YouTube. Jimmy, Guy, TBP and Lenny will be live, commenting on the movie, telling stories and probably BS’ing with each other all for a very special cause. During they event the guys will be collecting donations for MusiCares in honor of Adam Schlesinger, who wrote the song, “That Thing You Do,” and a person who the movie would be nothing without. Adam, who we also know from the band Fountains of Wayne, passed away from coronavirus last week.
Can we expect any other famous faces to join Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Ethan Embry and Steve Zahn during the broadcast? That’s like asking if Cap’n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters kept their costumes? (uhh, YEAH!) Steve hints at a few big names while we geek out over the movie, take a listen:
Get your patootie logged on to the The Wonders YouTube page Friday night at 7pm and have your own copy of the movie ready to watch along. They’ll be playing the theatrical version, so no Howie Long cameo:
