Akiva Schaffer has opened a reason behind adding only a joke of OJ Simpson, who played Nordberg’s role in the first three The naked gun.
During an interview with The Hollywood ReporterThe director spoke frankly about the joke in the restart.
Remembering that when he shared his idea of filming a restart of the movie, he said: “When I told his friends: ‘Hello, I’m actually about to write a naked gun,’ they would leave.”
Referring to Simpson, who died of prostate cancer in 2024, Schaffer continued: “What are you going to do with OJ? “Then, immediately, I thought: ‘Oh, true.
In the film, each police pay a tribute to their deceased parents when the image of the Norderg is shown, his son shakes his head, since he is not a great father figure.
“We simply went, ‘Yes, he takes care of that.’ He didn’t know that the joke would kill as hard as he did in our first proof projection.
“You want to be respectful of everything that revolves around it, so it is not something I really took to Glee. We only had to recognize him in a way that we thought he did not dance in anyone’s misfortunes,” added Akiva Schaffer before signing.
The naked gun It was released in theaters on August 1, 2025.
