'Bad Trip' is a partially scripted good friend comedy film that features a road commute across several states, however where and when was it filmed precisely?

If you take Bad Grandpa and blend in a bit bit of Borat, you'll be able to almost certainly get something like Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery's Bad Trip. It's a semi-scripted comedy about two buddies who shuttle around the nation so one in all them can declare like to their highschool weigh down. Instead of a normal street commute film, regardless that, there are many hidden digicam pranks and moments with unsuspecting locals from other puts around the United States.

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Some viewers are now questioning where and when Bad Trip was filmed. Eric and Lil Rel if truth be told traveled to a couple of different states, so in that regard, the movie is totally professional. And most of the people who ended up falling prey to their pranks or just being witness to their antics had been real too. There had been still scripted moments, however regardless, it's a kind of secondhand embarrassment movies you'll't look away from.

So, where was 'Bad Trip' filmed?

According to IMDb, Bad Trip was filmed in California, Georgia, South Carolina, and New York City. The premise of the movie takes best possible pals Bud (Lil Rel) and Chris (Eric) on a highway trip while Bud's jail escapee sister (Tiffany Haddish) follows the breadcrumbs they by accident depart at the back of. Along the way in which, the pair's hijinks get them into all varieties of bother with people who believe everything they're doing and announcing is actual — together with when certainly one of them risks his existence on the roof of a building.

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Because there are such a large amount of pranks performed on people who have no idea they are even being filmed, it is sensible that Eric and Lil Rel had to take their film on the street. If they'd stayed in a single house, it would were much harder for local people to believe that the whole lot they got themselves into was reliable. It nonetheless does not make any of it less embarrassing for viewers at home, despite the fact that.

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When was 'Bad Trip' filmed?

Eric informed Men's Health that Bad Trip was in the making for rather a while. If you noticed that no one within the movie was wearing a masks or social distancing, there's a reason why for that — the film was made method before COVID-19 was a factor. It was filmed between October 2017 and December 2018. So, why is Bad Trip simply popping out now?

According to Eric, Bad Trip's team "finished editing in April 2019, and then we were going to come out in the fall of 2019, and there was a conflicting movie, so we pushed to 2020. And then we got into SXSW, a killer timeslot at SXSW, one of the headliners. And then we were going to premiere worldwide in theaters everywhere in April, and have SXSW be like the sneak peek kickoff. And then the world went to s--t and collapsed." 

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How actual is 'Bad Trip'?

The giant worry for many fanatics is that if Bad Trip is certainly actual. That's the million-dollar query that Jackass and Borat fans have had through the years too. Even if someone could have identified Eric or Lil Rel, their pranks and the reactions of the ones they contain in them are all legit in Bad Trip. In reality, as Lil Rel explained to Entertainment Weekly, one prank that involved him and Eric being hooked up in combination by way of prosthetic penises with a finger entice nearly got them into severe trouble.

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"We ended up going to the wrong barbershop where the security wasn't there," he said. "Seeing our penises attached in this finger trap was [the barber's] worst nightmare, where he's like, 'Yo, if I ever see this, I'm going to murder somebody.' But he had to say that before in his head, because I don't know anybody that would have gotten that mad before ... He picked up a knife that he was using to shave somebody and chased us out the barbershop."

He added that the movie's safety guard was ready to step in to make sure not anything serious took place. The incontrovertible fact that there was security available within reach does not imply any of Bad Trip is much less legit, though. The film was filmed with actual pranks, real reactions, and safeguards in position to make sure the stars made it out OK.

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