The Hangover star Ed Helms 'still nervous' for his parents to see his movies
The 51-year-old actor was brought up in a "repressed Southern home" and he admitted that it has a lot to do with him feeling wary when it comes to his mother and father watching him in risque comedies like The Hangover.
Speaking on SiriusXM's Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, he said: "I grew up in a kind of a repressed Southern home. Politically, very progressive, but still a very socially conservative kind of environment.
"And so The Hangover is nuts. That's not what they raised me to do, to be in a movie like The Hangover..
"And so my parents — at that point they'd seen me do crazy stuff on The Daily Show in The Office — and so there was some sort of acceptance already, but, still, I was nervous for my parents to see The Hangover.
"I was like 35 when that movie came out, and I'm still nervous about my parents."
Ed recalled that when his parents did eventually see The Hangover - which follows groom-to-be Doug (Justin Bartha) and three friends on a wild stag do in Las Vegas - his mother was "crying" as the credits rolled.
He added: "I'm looking at my mom, the lights come up, and she's crying.
"Tears streaming down her face, and, for a second, I'm like, 'Did I just break my poor mom's heart?'"
But Ed learned that his mother then had a very positive reaction to the film, and he will "never forget" that evening.
He added: "She says to me that 'That was so funny,' and just [gave me] a big hug. I'll just never forget that was such a special moment.
"The Hangover was such a pivotal moment in my career, in my life, and for mom to just be all in on it, it meant so much."
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