“Inside the Twisted Minds: How Johnny Wickham and Mike Capes Turned Chilling Fears into Hilarious Thrills in SYS 529”
Ashley
Got to tell Mike, when you guys were writing this, did you know this was a role you might want to star in? It doesn’t sound like you guys were that early on. It doesn’t sound like you guys thought this would get into production very easily. But were you in the back of your mind thinking I also want to act in this?
Mike Capes
So, I think a lot of Johnny and I’s background, you know, when we were first writing with our comedy group, I was the guy in the writer’s room that there was some news sketches way back in the day. And they were like, Hey, Mike can put on a tie and he could do the news. He could be the news guy, like a Chevy Chase type thing. And I was like, Yeah, let’s do it. So I started doing more on camera work. So over time, one of the bigger hits during our digital run at break is Johnny and I were both working there. We had a show that I hosted. And we were really crafting a voice. We did 50-some-odd episodes of me playing this character. And then that shifted over to another YouTube channel that became a big success, where I sort of evolved that character and brought him out into the world. This is sort of a play on that. It’s kind of what we’ve been developing over time. So, as we were writing the main character, we were writing for that comedic voice that we had crafted. He’s kind of a snarky, false, confident guy. And there’s a there’s some Chevy Chase in there. There’s some there’s some elements of the stuff we grew up on the fletch type, you know, sort of snarky comp, false, confident guy. And so yeah, we when we wrote the film, we wrote for that kind of character.
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