Luke Shapiro, the star of “The Wackness” emailed us this morning with a link to a YouTube viral clip of his hip-hop flavored cable access show. “Sup playboy? finally found this episode in my archives, peep it,” he wrote. Or rather, the unpaid intern probably posing as Shapiro as part of the film’s “viral ” marketing campaign since Shapiro ain’t a real person (he’s played by actor Josh Peck; Shapiro is the main fictional character in the film who sells weed and is obsessed with weed and co-star Olivia Thirlby).
The clip reads off the top: “The following footage is from “Luke Shapiro’s Dope Show,” a public access show created by New Yorker Luke Shapiro in 1994. This footage was recently discovered in the archives of Manhattan Cable television.” But yeah, meta and whatnot. “Shapiro” is basically spamming all the movie bloggers right now, so we’re not really sure why we bothered to put this up clip, but the post is almost done, so why not. And the clip is in the spirit of the 1994-set life of the teenage character. Rhys Coiro, who plays the canteakerous fictional art-house/porn director Billy Walsh from “Entourage,” is also in the clip, but curiously enough, he’s not actually in the film (maybe they’re all just buds). “The Wackness” in theaters starting on July 3rd.