In Buddy Games: Spring Awakening, stars Josh Duhamel, Don Bakkedahl, Kevin Dillon and Nick Swardson got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relive spring break. From casual flings to plenty of partying and some insane drug trips, their characters aren’t afraid to fully embrace the spring break experience.
Talking to SheKnows ahead of the movie’s premiere, Duhamel, Bakkedahl and Dillon shared what moment they’d personally love to experience one more time.
“Tenth grade again,” Bakkedahl says in a heartbeat. “We discovered a beach in my hometown that none of the adults knew and there’s where all the kids hung out. 1986 back at Secret Beach!”
For Dillon, he was all about wanting to fully experience filming The Doors again, one of his most acclaimed movies to date. “I would probably go back and reshoot The Doors again,” he says. “I had so much fun doing The Doors. I worked throughout the ’90s so much. I would reshoot that and maybe have a little more fun and appreciate all these guys I was around, all these rock and roll stars.”
For Shotgun Wedding star Duhamel, the answer was pretty obvious – After all, he also produced and directed the movie. “I got to sort of do it in this movie,” he says. “One of my craziest memories was spring break with my buddies back in the mid-90s. We were out of control.”
Knowing how much he’d love to do that, Duhamel was inspired to make this project. “I just kept thinking how funny would it be if we went back there now,” he adds. “I just love the visual of us still in our suits from leaving one of our best friend’s funerals to go commemorate his life to find out that we’re smack dab in the middle of T and A everywhere. It’s just such a funny juxtaposition and that to me was something that I always thought would be funny to go back and sort of relive.”
Speaking of the funeral, which was for Dax Shepard’s character Durfy, we also asked the stars if they’d already picked out their ideal place to spread their ashes when the time comes. “I want ’em spread on a sandwich and I want my family to eat it,” Bakkedahl jokes.
Choosing a much kinder and less hazardous approach, Dillon says, “Just wanna go back into the earth.” “I don’t want to be smoke and pollution, I don’t want embalming. I just want to go back to the earth and feed the earth, that’s all.”
Duhamel, on the other hand, has clearly put some thought into it before. “Mine would definitely go to my cabin out in Minnesota,” he says.
Knowing how well these stars know each other at this point, we also asked which one of them they’d want to be stuck on a deserted island with, and have the best chance of survival. “In the movie, Bobfather for sure,” Bakkedahl says of Duhamel’s character. “Bobfather is the guy that would survive on that,” Dillon adds.
In real life, however, it looks like Dillon and Bakkedahl may have the upper hand. “He’s a lot skinnier so if we didn’t have food you’d die first and then I get to eat him,” Bakkedahl says of Duhamel, before adding that he’s got “reserves built up so if the food doesn’t show up I’m making it the long haul.” Dillon, for his part, calls himself a “survivalist.” “I could make fires or bow drills,” he says.
If there’s one person that they know wouldn’t be a good deserted island buddy, however, it’s Swardson. “Definitely not Swardson,” Duhamel says, “He feels like he’s roughing it at the Ritz-Carlton.”
Check out these four relive their best ’90s selves in Buddy Games: Spring Awakening, out now on digital on Apple TV and Prime Video.
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