You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.
— Kel Mitchell
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.
I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.
I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.
Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.
Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie.
I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing.
I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.
He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.
After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.
We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.
If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.
I was always the class clown.
I loved Spider-Man, Spider-Man was the man.
Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.
After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.