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Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the World Premiere of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Jayma Mays – 'Amy' in Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Jayma Mays: "I love About.com. You always know everything."

Do we? We know everything?

Jayma Mays: "You know everything."

So what do you research there?

Jayma Mays: "Everything. We're into doing things ourselves, DIY, so how do you hang a picture? About.com."

Tell me about working on this film and working with Kevin James. It must have been a crack up.

Jayma Mays: "Yeah. No, it was wonderful actually and he is as funny as you think he is or would be. He's great and on top of that he's a very charming, warm, kind individual and a pleasure to be around. And I don't know if a lot of people know that side of him, but he's just wonderful. I guess you'd imagine that anyway, I guess. He comes across that way, doesn't he?"

Yeah, he does.

Jayma Mays: "He's wonderful. It was a real pleasure to work with him."

When you're working with someone that funny is it easy for you to crack up or do you keep yourself under control?

Jayma Mays: "A little bit of both, really. Yeah, I can crack up at anything if I let myself. So if I know I'm going to laugh, I start thinking about dead cats in the road, or like old people in wheelchairs. You know, the natural thing that you should think."

Did you ride one of these Segways?

Jayma Mays: "I did, actually. I got to ride one in the film and I got training for it."

What is training like?

Jayma Mays: "Yeah, well that's what I said. 'I don't need training.' I fell off that sucker. It's not… You have to have balance and focus for the thing. But the way Kevin rides it, it becomes like an extra arm to him. He's just like part of the personal transporter. "

Was he showing off?

Jayma Mays: "I think he was showing off. It's his extreme sport."

Do they go fast?

Jayma Mays: "They actually do go really fast. You have to be careful. If you're going really fast and then you stop all of a sudden, I think that's where danger sets in. But they're fun – they're really fun."

How fun is it to be in a PG comedy that's for all ages?

Jayma Mays: "I was really excited about it because it means that my nephew can go see it. Well, he's older now. He's going to be really embarrassed if he hears that I just said that. But I have nieces that are really young, and it's good to be able to tell your family, 'Hey, you can go see this one.'"

Stephen Rannazzisi - 'Stuart' in Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Did you like that little demonstration Kevin James just did?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "That was awesome."

Have you ridden one before?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "Oh yeah. We used to have races in the… I don't know if I can say this but whatever. Yeah, we had races in the mall. Like three Segways – me, Kevin and Keir [O'Donnell]. First person to Bloomingdale's gets like $50. Death match. You'd try to knock people off and stuff like that. Kevin usually won. First of all, we'd let him win. You know, poster and everything. Also, he had the most experience on it because he got to ride them a lot more. I think he owns like two or three of them. But we did well for ourselves."

Does it take much training to be able to use it?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "It's weird because you step on it and you feel like you're going to fall over. And you literally are like off balance, but as soon as you get it you can go uphill, downhill. It's crazy."

What do you play in Paul Blart?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "I play Stuart. I own the pen sales. I'm the pen salesman of the mall. I own a pen shop. I am the asshole of the movie. I basically rip on him the entire movie and then I get held hostage and I beg for him to come save us. So I'm that kind of…yeah."

So this was a real stretch for you to play?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "It was a stretch. I'm from New York. I was born in New York so asshole was in my blood."

Did you stick to the script?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "No. Well no that was my stipulation of doing the movie. I said, 'No, no, I have to…' And Kevin is the best. Whatever's going to make the movie better, he's into."

Did it worry you that it was PG because you have to keep it clean?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "I had no idea. I thought it was rated… It's not rated R? Oh, okay. I'm probably not in the movie. Probably won't see a lot of me in the movie. But no, no. I would censor myself."

And you've got a movie coming up with Eddie Murphy?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "Well, they just changed the title. It was called Nowhereland. It's called Imagine That now."

Why'd they change that?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "I have no idea. They don't tell me. I'm not in on those meetings."

They don't take your input for the title?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "They don't take my input for the title, no."

Is that a PG-13?

Stephen Rannazzisi: "That's a PG as well I think. So I'm very kid-friendly. I have no idea how. I had a baby on Thursday this week. I haven't slept in 72 hours. I'm not kidding you."

You don't need Red Bull or anything like that.

tephen Rannazzisi: "Nothing. I have a baby that I had two days ago. Three days no baby, two days ago baby. My first baby."

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