Carrot Top in Atlanta on the set of the upcoming film “Michelle Darnell” starring Melissa McCarthy. The movie is due for release in the spring of 2016.
Given the choice between appearances in two surefire hit movies, “Zoolander 2” starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson and an upcoming comedy starring Melissa McCarthy, Carrot Top opted for …
The centaur.
Indeed, in April, the Topper faced a conundrum rare even in his oft-unrestrained career.
He had agreed to appear with McCarthy in her upcoming comedy, “Michelle Darnell,” due for release in the spring of 2016. In the film, he plays a centaur — half-man, half-horse (and thus ineligible for entry into any Triple Crown race).
But soon after agreeing to spend a day in Atlanta filming his scenes with McCarthy, the Luxor headliner got a call from Stiller offering a cameo in “Zoolander 2.”
The latter film is set, in part, in Paris.
“Do I really fly to Paris to film for one day for a cameo role?” Carrot Top, aka Scott Thompson, asked rhetorically after his show Wednesday night. “I would have done it, actually.”
Except that the film schedule for “Zoolander 2” (also to be released in early 2016) fell on the same day as the shoot in Atlanta. Two major film offers at about the same moment.
“Unbelievable,” C.T. said. “Just to get one of those offers is pretty incredible, but two, on the same day, seems impossible.”
He kept the commitment in the McCarthy film. It is not readily clear how a centaur works its way into the movie’s plot, though.
According to IMDb: “A titan of industry is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.”
So we need Carrot Top as a centaur to deliver this story?
“It’s weird,” the comic said. “All of it is weird.”
As he talked, he held an official Carrot Top sailor’s hat trimmed in gold glitter and signed by Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx.
Weird? In Carrot Top’s world, it’s all in the eyes of the beholder.
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