Big Short creator Adam McKay has detailed the breakup of both his Gary Sanchez Productions business and decades-long friendship with Anchorman and Step Brothers star Will Ferrell.In an in-depth Vanity Fair interview, McKay set out how his decision to cast Ferrell’s best friend John C.
Reilly as Jerry Buss in HBO’s Showtime about the LA Lakers was the culmination of years of creative differences and led to a split that is yet to be repaired.“Ferrell took it as a way deeper hurt than I ever imagined and I tried to reach out to him, and I reminded him of some slights that were thrown my way that were never apologized for,” said McKay. “The whole time it was like I was saying it out loud, ‘Let’s not become an episode of Behind the Music.
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