I love Danny McBride. It’s something that has come over me gradually throughout the past few years, but at this point, I would be perfectly willing to anoint him My Forever And Ever Dong and headliner of Hot Guy Friday, if not for the collective freakout it would inspire. Yeah, I know he’s not technically hot. But whenever you see him – in photos, in movies, wherever – you start giggling, right? So Danny is the star of the new movie Your Highness, which I want to see very, very much despite the fact that it also stars James “I’m a Douche” Franco and Natalie “SmugFace” Portman. That’s a sign of how much I love Danny McBride – I will still see his movie even with the other two a–holes in it. Oh, and Danny isn’t just the star (the lead!) – he wrote it too. Score!

Anyway, Danny has a lengthy new interview in GQ. You can read the full thing here – I had to stop reading it a few times because I was wasting too much time giggling over it. Here are some of the choice highlights:

How Your Highness started: McBride’s explaining Your Highness, as best he can. How it all started as a joke. How he and his old film-school buddy David Gordon Green—who cast McBride in All the Real Girls back in 2002, directed him years later in Pineapple Express, and occupied that chair again on Your Highness—used to play this movie-nerd game years ago, where Green would throw out a title and McBride would start pitching him back “f-ckin’ retarded ideas for movies.” Green would say something like Face of Danger, and they’d come up with “some weird story about Steve Danger, who’s a plastic surgeon and he solves mysteries.” Your Highness was one of those. Green said it; McBride said, “What if I was in the Middle Ages fighting dragons and getting stoned all the time?”

On making flops: “I’ve been in movies that were made to appeal to everyone, and sometimes they appealed to no one,” McBride says, presumably making tactful reference to his role in Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost, a $100 million Flopasaurus rex. “It’s just more interesting to us to make the f-ckin’ weird, crazy movies that maybe some people go see.”

Your Highness is for an elite audience: “If you don’t like the Minotaur dick, you’re not gonna like our movie, and we’re okay with that.”

The inspriations: “We love Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” McBride says, “and how they approached not having the budget of a big movie. But David’s whole idea [for Your Highness] was that the joke would be that it’s not low-budget. We wanted to make it look as much like Harry Potter or Clash of the Titans as we possibly could, because that would make the joke that much better. Monty Python did the low-budget version, and they killed it. You don’t want to step on territory that other people have done amazingly. It’s like, where’s our place on the dance floor?”

Danny sees himself as a writer: “Honestly, at the end of the day, I f-ckin’ love writing the most, out of all of it,” McBride says. “Whatever goes on, I know I can come back to my f-ckin’ desk and put down some jokes and write something, and that honestly keeps me so content that if I never were to get another acting job again, I wouldn’t be heartbroken.” He’s always written on the side while working another job, he points out—it’s just that now the day job is movie actor rather than, say, night desk manager at the Burbank Holiday Inn. Really? I ask. If everything else fell away, that’s the one thing you’d choose to keep? “Totally,” McBride says. “Get rid of all the f-ckin’ flu­. Keep it street. Just me and my word processor.”

[From GQ]

I love him. Keep it street! Seriously, if he wasn’t already married, I would marry him right now, at this very moment. I sat here and couldn’t stop laughing for a full five minutes as I wrote this up. Anyone who can make me laugh that hard gets a ticket to my panties.

Header photo courtesy of GQ. Additional pics by WENN.