{"id":56509,"date":"2025-07-11T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56509\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:39:10","slug":"why-ed-helms-was-nervous-for-my-parents-to-see-the-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56509\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ed Helms Was ‘Nervous for My Parents to See The Hangover’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEd Helms<\/a> is recalling how nervous he was for his \u201cvery socially conservative\u201d parents to see 2009\u2019s The Hangover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor recently appeared on SiriusXM\u2019s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast<\/a>, where he looked back at the R-rated comedy that also starred Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI grew up in kind of a repressed Southern home. Politically, very progressive, but still a very socially conservative kind of environment,\u201d Helms explained to host Ted Danson. \u201cAnd so The Hangover is nuts. That\u2019s not what they [his parents] raised me to do, to be in a movie like The Hangover<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo my parents \u2014 at that point they\u2019d seen me do crazy stuff on The Daily Show and The Office \u2014 and so there was some sort of acceptance already, but, still, I was nervous for my parents to see The Hangover. I was like 35 when that movie came out, and I\u2019m still nervous about my parents,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hangover, directed by Todd Phillips, follows three friends who wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing, and must make their way around the city to find their friend in time for his wedding.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite his nerves, Helms said he still took his parents to the film\u2019s premiere. However, their reaction actually caught him by surprise.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at my mom, the lights come up, and she\u2019s crying,\u201d he recalled. \u201cTears streaming down her face, and, for a second, I\u2019m like, \u2018Did I just break my poor mom\u2019s heart?\u2019 She says to me, \u2018That was so funny,\u2019 and just [gave me] a big hug. I\u2019ll just never forget that was such a special moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHelms added, \u201cThe Hangover was such a pivotal moment in my career, in my life, and for mom to just be all in on it, it meant so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2009 comedy was ultimately a success, grossing more than $277 million at the box office. It also spawned two sequels, The Hangover Part II and The Hangover Part III.<\/p>\n

\n\tHelms previously told People magazine that he would also be down to reprise his role as Stu in a fourth installment\u00a0<\/a>of the franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI mean, [costars]\u00a0Bradley [Cooper],Zach [Galifianakis], [director] Todd [Philips] \u2014 these are some of my favorite people on the planet, so I would do anything with them,\u201d he said in 2023. \u201cOh my God, I would do anything with those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Helms is recalling how nervous he was for his \u201cvery socially conservative\u201d parents to see 2009\u2019s The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[41405,171,53,41406,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-56509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ed-helms","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-the-hangover","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114833939722172964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}