# Havent seen "Walk Hard"...but I watched The Beatles scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 5, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140 "2021-09-05T17:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/1 "2021-09-05T17:57:29Z")
And apparently Long and Rudd were freaking out about doing it…? > **[Why Paul Rudd And Justin Long Were Terrified Of Playing The Beatles](https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Paul-Rudd-Justin-Long-Were-Terrified-Playing-Beatles-67298.html)** > > Justin Long has admitted that he “freaked out“ the night before he played George Harrison in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Long was overwhelmed by the opportunity to play the favorite me Actors? Am I right?..come on guys, its a lark you should be excited about. Especially once they twigged onto how good their impressions were. Which should have taken no time. “Do I sound good? I think I sound good.” “Dude, you sound amazing. In fact that may be the best John Lennon impression I’ve ever heard” On top of that, roles like that are the funnest ever. Come in and do a quick historical cameo in a film with a bunch of people you like and get paid well to do it. Ironically, Jack Black…who seems to be on the same page as me…did the poorest job. Nailing the McCartney impression, until he had to speak more than a few lines, then just falling into a standard English accent before rounding it off with a Scouse. But maybe thats the joke and its going over my head. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/2 "2021-09-05T18:25:46Z")
Wasn’t the joke in that scene that none of them looked or sounded particularly like the people they portrayed? ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/3 "2021-09-05T18:29:35Z")
Rudd and Long nail the voice impression. And Rudd passes visually due to good costume work. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/4 "2021-09-06T12:00:16Z")
The OP should watch the whole movie- it’s a very funny parody of musician biopics. “That’s a particularly bad case of being cut in half with a machete” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/5 "2021-09-06T14:04:19Z")
> [@solost](#): > > it’s a very funny parody of musician biopics. “The wrong son died!” I honestly can’t remember if that line is from _Walk the Line_ or _Walk Hard_. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/6 "2021-09-06T14:15:46Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > “The wrong son died!” > > I honestly can’t remember if that line is from _Walk the Line_ or _Walk Hard_ Both, probably? And Dewey’s wife, played by Kristen Wiig, constantly telling him he’ll never be successful, even when he calls her during a nationwide tour to tell her he’s going to be on the road longer— “ok, bye honey….you’re never going to make it”. I liked that little throwaway joke. Of course he was really staying on the road longer because he was getting cuddly with Jenna Fischer’s character: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oflbCHWZCBU/maxresdefault.jpg "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) - Duet Song Scene (7/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oflbCHWZCBU) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/7 "2021-09-06T14:37:27Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The OP should watch the whole movie- it’s a very funny parody of musician biopics. > > “That’s a particularly bad case of being cut in half with a machete” Which might also be why the actors were apprehensive. Perhaps they thought it might come off as mean spirited towards a group they admired. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/havent-seen-walk-hard-but-i-watched-the-beatles-scene/950140/8 "2021-09-06T17:43:33Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Of course he was really staying on the road longer because he was getting cuddly with Jenna Fischer’s character: Sounds like the plot of [Colonel Homer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Homer).