‘Over Your Dead Body’ Director Jorma Taccone Was Surprised By Lonely Island Easter Egg: “I Was Thrilled”

While Over Your Dead Body marks Jorma Taccone‘s first directorial outing since Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), he had no Lonely Island references planned for the movie.

Taccone revealed that one line in Over Your Dead Body, now in theaters, which nods to the music mockumentary, came as a piece of improvisation when Juliette Lewis‘ Allegra calls Dan (Jason Segel) a “motherfucking, titty-sucking, two-ball bitch,” a lyric from the Popstar group Style Boyz’s song ‘Rock Roll Skate’.

“And by the way, that was Juliette improv-ing,” he told SlashFilm, noting he hadn’t even realized it was a Popstar reference. “And when she did that, I was like, ‘Oh, s—t!’ Because everybody has their own version of that from third grade, or I do, but I was very surprised when she said it.”

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