Mr. & Mrs. in high-octane spy comedy
Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot join forces in the explosive sexy action-comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Galifianakis, best known for his breakout role in the Hangover film series, pairs up with the versatile Fisher (known for her roles in Confessions of a Shopaholic and Now You See Me) as husband and wife — Jeff and Karen Gaffney, a suburban couple living an ideal quiet life, until their new neighbors moved in, the Joneses.
The Joneses, played by Gadot a.k.a. Wonder Woman and award-winning Hamm (of Mad Men fame), are secret government agents in the movie. The Joneses are camouflaged as a glamorous, sophisticated, picture-perfect couple who rocked the Gaffney’s world on the first day they moved into the neighborhood.
After the initial meet-and-greet, the Gaffneys and the Joneses form a special bond, but Karen soon notices there is something odd with the Joneses. With Karen’s prodding, she convinces Jeff to spy on the couple’s house while they’re away. Only to find out that the Joneses are spies. Soon, the Gaffneys are embroiled into the dizzying and dangerous world of espionage so much that they realize it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses.
The great chemistry between Galifianakis and Hamm in the movie as good friends is rooted from a real off-cam friendship. “I’ve known Jon, I’ve known Jon before Jon was truly Jon Hamm, and he’s a comedy guy. He’s really funny, you know. A lot of leading type guys like that, they don’t have humor. They think they do, but they don’t. It’s almost unfair that he can do both,” shared Galifianakis from his recent interviews for the movie.
“It’s really frustrating because I’m certainly not going to be a, no one is ever going to go, ‘You know, Zach does handsome really well.’ So, Jon, he is just funny, and he’s funny like a comedian is funny, you know, not, ‘Look, an actor is funny.’ He’s funny, and so Jon and I had this, just a friendship, and I’d hoped we’d work together. I think Jon and I got together over the last couple of years and we talked about a couple of things that, and then this kind of happened and I’m glad that it did. It seemed like a good fit.”
Keeping Up with the Joneses opens Oct. 19 in cinemas nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warple ner Bros.