Ken Marino and filmmaking partner David Wain built their new offbeat comedy around one big question: Would Jon Hamm and John Slattery be willing to make fun of themselves? Fortunately for them, the Mad Men stars were all in.
Marino, 57, and Wain, 56, attended the 2026 Tribeca Festival premiere of Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass in New York City on Wednesday, June 10, alongside cast members Zoey Deutch, Sabrina Impacciatore, Joe Lo Truglio and others.
In the film, Deutch, 31, plays a bride-to-be who heads to Hollywood hoping to hook up with Hamm — playing a heightened version of himself — after her fiancé cashes in his own celebrity “hall pass” before their wedding. Along the way, she crosses paths with Slattery, also playing himself, who helps her track down his longtime costar.
“It was very pivotal. How pivotal? You know, it doesn’t work without Hamm and Slattery, and we were very lucky to have worked with them and known them and been connected with them,” Marino tells PEOPLE on the red carpet.
Wain, who has collaborated with Marino on cult-favorite comedies including Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models and Wanderlust, says there was never really a Plan B.
“We felt like we really took a risk. We wrote the script and we sent it over. We’ve worked with Jon and John both before in different things, but I sent it to them both and it was like, ‘I hope you like this, because we don’t really have another choice to play the role of John Slattery,’ except for maybe Bradley Whitford,” Wain jokes.
“But luckily they both thought it was funny and were both up for doing it, and then we were off and running.”
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