“The Overnight” is a 2015 film about two couples who get together for an innocent enough dinner party. However, after the adults put the kids to bed, the night devolves into seduction and debauchery. At one point in the film, in which the couples go skinny dipping, the audience gets a glance at the characters’ psyches — via a look at their genitalia.
At first, this might seem like a bit of a strange directorial decision. What do their private parts have to do with anything? Well, Adam Scott, whose character sports a prosthetic micropenis, told HuffPost that he initially had the same question, which led to some deeper reflection on his character. “I started really thinking about it and I was like, ‘Huh, this character’s really going through something interesting,'” said Scott.
Jason Schwartzman’s character also got a prosthetic penis, but his was at the other end of the scale in terms of size. When asked during the same interview if the prosthetic ever went to his head, he maintained that he just carried on with a business-as-usual mindset. “I didn’t think, like, ‘Oh, I have this big prosthetic, I feel great right now,'” noted Schwartzman. “My confidence didn’t change once the prosthetic was on me, deep down. My mind never went there.”
