Their affection, however, is palpable, especially when they are arguing about whose scenes are funnier.
More timid directors than Elliott and Nicholas Hytner would have put Port, whose scenes are mostly two-handers, on to a small stage.
Hilton, one of the gang's victims, has a small cameo in the film, some of whose scenes were shot at her home.
The dead friend was played by Kevin Costner, whose scenes were cut from the final version of the film so that he never actually appeared.
Other people we need to meet - the force of nature that is best friend Tara, whose first scene is like a B&Q advert directed by John Waters.
At 20,000 square feet, or about 2,000 square meters, "Hope & Glory — A Conceptual Circus" is one of the biggest multimedia shows to open in a city whose art scene is dominated by small galleries and government-run museums.
Like inner-city Detroit and suburban east LA, New Orleans is now a city whose rap scene is inextricably linked to its crime statistics, where the hip hop code of 'keeping it real' has been played out in countless gang feuds and tit-for-tat slayings of young black men.
This kind of acting up polarises the voters into those to whom you are a hero whose every scene is a showstopper (never enough of them, even if they fill your own halls night after night) and the rest, all of whom you implicitly reject.
The impaling Feige refers to is that of Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg), whose death scene is now tamer than it was in the first cut of the movie.
And this took me the longest time to figure out, and I still have hard time explaining it, except to say, especially with a show about suspense, you want to put the audience into the viewpoint of the character whose scene it is.
