Bowfinger says, “He’s not in any of the other scenes, so we just shoot those with our own actors on our own time. And, bingo… we’ve got a movie.”

“That’s crazy,” says Dave.
“Yeah,” agrees Bowfinger, “But we’re desperate.”

“Why don’t you wait till you get a star who wants to be in it?” asks Dave.

“Dave,” replies Bowfinger, “I’m 49 years old. Admittedly, I could get away with 44, 41, maybe 38. But when you hit 50, they don’t hire you anymore. It’s like they can smell 50.”

Bowfinger puts the metal box on the table.

“What’s that?” asks Dave.

Bowfinger opens the box, and it’s filled with dollar bills.

“When I was ten years old,” says Bowfinger, “I knew I wanted to make movies, but I knew no one was
going to give me that. So I started putting away one dollar every week of my life. If I missed a week,
I made it up later, from age ten on. And now, you’re looking at enough to get us started. Two thousand, one hundred eighty-four dollars.”

“But movies cost millions of dollars to make,” says Dave.

“That’s after gross net deduction profit percentage… deferment ten percent -” begins Bowfinger.

In This Episode

• Steve Martin as Bobby Bowfinger
• Jamie Kennedy as Dave

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