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Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the LA Premiere of New Line Cinema's Going the Distance.

Christina Applegate - 'Corinne' in Going the Distance

Why aren't you in comfortable shoes?

Christina Applegate: "Because I'm on a red carpet. You're not allowed to wear flats."

But you're pregnant. They should make exceptions for pregnant people.

Christina Applegate: "I have to wear shitty, uncomfortable shoes."

This one's different from most romantic comedies because you can say whatever you want - it's R-rated. Was that kind of freeing?

Christina Applegate: "Yeah. I mean I have a pretty naughty mouth. I can't ever pretend to be Pollyanna having done 11 seasons of Married with Children, honestly. I grew up in an environment that wasn't conducive to being perfect and PG. Therefore, yeah, I have a good naughty mouth. And it was good. Everyone there kind of all has pretty naughty mouths so no one felt inhibited. Everyone felt [free] to do whatever they wanted to do."

So besides the fact that you get to cuss and don't have to edit yourself, what sets this one apart from other romantic comedies?

Christina Applegate: "Because of its imperfections and that it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. You know, it's not all perfectly happy at the end."

Not Hollywood-ish?

Christina Applegate: "Not at all. It's quite different."

And do you feel like Drew Barrymore's character is a little stronger than most romantic comedy females are?

Christina Applegate: "Yeah. Yeah, when a scene ends with her yelling, 'S--- my d---,' never saw that in a Katherine Heigl movie."

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Talk about working on this and how collaborative the process was.

"It was quite collaborative with the music supervisors. We wrote about four different songs. It was back and forth between London and LA. We eventually worked it out. It was quite a short space of time. It was about three weeks from beginning to end on this."

You wrote four songs in three weeks for the movie?

"Yeah. It was really quick."

Is that normal?

"When we read the script it was a certain ending and a certain mood that we write for, and then by the time the script was switched around a bit it was a totally different feeling so it needed a totally different song. Yeah."

"We sort of ended up with a scenario where they really loved two of the songs that we had written and couldn't decide so we actually shot two different songs for the scene that we're in for the film."

Is the other going to be on the DVD if it's not in the film?

"No."

"We should ask. I don't know."

It should be on the DVD if nothing else.

"It might be. Who knows?"

How tough is it to write a song for a movie because it's not something you're passionate about yourself?

"Well, it's a story about love and longing for love and things like that, so it's not too far removed from something we'd ordinarily do. You just have to kind of make more of the mood fit. I think one thing we do kind of well is, you know, do mood."

But it's a romantic comedy. Are you guys romantic comedy type people? Is this the type of movie you'd go see?

"We're romantic men. There's four very romantic men standing here."

"We're very romantic and then on other occasions we're very funny."

"This man's the most romantic."

"I am so romantic, you wouldn't believe."

"Ask her out."

"We don't necessarily as a group... I can't ask you out, I'm married I'm afraid."

[I flash my wedding ring.] "But we don't necessarily link romantic comedy as a band."

Is this something you'd do again?

"I think we're going to specialize in romantic comedies from now."

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