After all, I had never played the piano, have never owned one and couldn't even bang out "Chopsticks" or the Piano Concerto No. 3. Still, I've always wanted to shoot the keys like Victor Borge, Chico Marx and, above all, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Chico, a compulsive gambler and womanizer (when his wife caught him kissing a chorus girl, he protested that he was merely whispering in her mouth), survived by leading a band and playing the piano by "shooting" the keys -- an irresistible bit because he made it look so easy when, in fact, it requires the timing of a master comedian.
A young British actor named Matt Roper, enlisted to play Chico, had to learn how to reproduce a fiendishly singular accent — not an Italian accent but a New York Italian-émigré accent as rendered in caricature by an émigré New York Jew — as well as how to play "trick" piano, in the distinctive Chico style, with the left hand lolling and the right hand shooting the keys and kittening.
"But then I would shoot all the key poses that existed in whatever moves the digital double was doing, so that we had as much of that appliance in that lighting condition that we could get", said Nordby.
But even Victorian cuckolds didn't habitually take the next step: Sickles shot the unarmed Key dead in broad daylight, just around the corner from the White House.
We started shooting the two key scenes of the script first, which were the two lamb birth scenes.
Sickles rushed out into the park, drew a single pistol, and shot the unarmed Key three times while the other man pleaded for his life.
Sickles rushed out into the park, drew a pistol, and shot the unarmed Key three times while the other man pleaded for his life.
We shot the pilot for "Key & Peele" in an abandoned detention center for juvenile delinquents.
