{"id":538178,"date":"2026-03-15T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:49:14","slug":"vince-vaughn-plays-doubles-in-sxsw-comedy-mike-nick-nick-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538178\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Vaughn Plays Doubles in SXSW Comedy ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVince Vaughn<\/a> stars opposite himself in the action comedy \u201cMike & Nick & Nick & Alice,\u201d an R-rated gangster movie that had SXSW in stitches during its Saturday night world premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tOut March 27 on Hulu, the film, directed by BenDavid Grabinski, follows mobster Nick (Vaughn), who travels back in time so that Future Nick and Present Nick can save fellow gangster buddy Mike (James Marsden) from being murdered. Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez plays Alice, a woman caught between these two dangerous men, as the four of them (does that add up?) face assassins, kingpins and coke-sniffing henchmen. The ensemble includes Keith David, Jimmy Tatro, Stephen Root, Lewis Tan, Ben Schwartz, Emily Hampshire and Arturo Castro.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrabinski introduced the film by reading some remarks written on his phone. \u201cThis following speech was saved in my Google Docs as the speech I\u2019d give if \u2018Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice\u2019 wins an MTV Movie Award,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m pretty sure those don\u2019t exist anymore, which sucks shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSetting the stakes, he added, \u201cMovies are the best thing in the entire world. Movies are why I get up in the morning. Movies are why I exist. Movies bring me joy, and you are all about to watch a fucking movie. It\u2019s a movie made by a major studio with movie stars and jokes and fights and surprises and explosions, a lot of music and a time machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie is full of laugh-out-loud moments and absurd, violent fight sequences. And \u2014 no spoilers \u2014\u00a0a famous action movie star makes a surprise cameo as a hit man.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just so nice to have an original idea made,\u201d Vaughn said during a post-film Q&A.<\/p>\n

\n\tGonz\u00e1lez, who also stars in another SXSW headliner, \u201cI Love Boosters,\u201d said she was \u201cterrified\u201d signing onto \u201cMike & Nick & Nick & Alice\u201d because \u201cI\u2019ve never done comedy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBe kind to me,\u201d she pleaded with the audience. \u201cThis is the first I\u2019m doing it. I was really nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVaughn assuaged his co-star\u2019s nerves: \u201cI thought you were super funny. It\u2019s so surprising to hear you say you were nervous, because you were so confident. You had so many great ideas, and I thought you were terrific in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vince Vaughn stars opposite himself in the action comedy \u201cMike & Nick & Nick & Alice,\u201d an R-rated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,210388,337,74775],"class_list":["post-538178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-mike-and-nick-and-nick-and-alice","tag-movies","tag-vince-vaughn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}