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'Pain & Gain' Turning a Tragedy into a Comedy

10:11 PM PDT 4/22/2013 by THR Staff

Tony Shalhoub, Ken Jeong, Rob Corddry and the cast of Micheal Bay's comedy share what it was like making their movie out of real life tragic events. Tony added, "This material luckily lends itself to that because there are so many absurd aspect to it and the filmmakers and the writers have chosen to and the director have chosen to highlight the more absurd parts of it and out of that grows the comedy." 

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