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See, Utah, you might not think you have a certain reputation outside the state, but you do.
Take, for example, this comment from actor-comedian Nick Swardson, in an interview with the movie website CinemaBlend, about his role in the upcoming movie "30 Minutes or Less."
Swardson and Danny McBride (that's them in the photo above - Swardson's on the right) play the movie's villains, two redneck idiots who devise a plan to make money: Force somebody else (specifically, a pizza delivery guy played by Jesse Eisenberg) to rob a bank for them, or face dire consequences.
Here's how Swardson describes being a redneck movie villain:
"We're like, it's almost like dumb and dumber bad guys, we're not like pure evil, we're just guys who are bored and don't know what to do with their lives. ... There'll be a lot of states were we're the good guys. North Dakota...You know what I mean? Utah will be like, these guys are, these are our guys."
Who says Hollywood doesn't make movies for Utah audiences?