Q) What are the recent projects that you are working on?

A) Most recently I worked on Kevin Smith's new film Cop Out with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. I shot it this summer and I have one scene with the two of them. I have sort of a featured cameo. It's pretty funny. I'm also about to start working on a film called Coming Up Roses. It's a small independent movie with Bernadette Peters and I play a drug dealer in New Hampshire in the 1980's.

Q) What was it like working with Kevin Smith?

A) It was amazing! He's a really sweet guy. I kind of ended up in the film in a really interesting way. I read for Sean William Scott's part. They were trying to decide if they wanted to go with an upcoming individual or an established person. I had a great audition with Kevin and I heard all these things like, "He's only going to have you read one scene." As soon as I started, he started laughing. It kind of threw me, but I thought, "This is great!" Then, I heard they were going to give it to Sean William Scott, who I think is hilarious. Next I heard they wanted to give me one scene that was funny. I worked a day with Bruce and Tracy and they were great. It was very loose and was only a couple takes. There was also lots of improv. The opportunity to work with Tracy Morgan...I was freaking out!

Q) Was there instant chemistry when you worked with Tracy and Bruce or did it take some time to develop?

A) I found it was kind of instant chemistry, only because we did a big table reading. Bruce was kind of complimentary like, "Oh, you're funny." I grew up with Bruce Willis and the Die Hard films. So, it was like, "Wow! This is amazing." We all started working together and it clicked. I was a little nervous when we first started working together. Bruce has done this a lot so he was very much going through the lines saying, "I'm not going to say that" or "Why would I say that?" They dismissed all of us after the rehearsal and then they brought us back in after they reconfigured the scene.

Q) What was your most memorable moment from filming Cop Out?

A) There was a moment where they turned around to do my coverage and there was lots of improvising. I'm translating this letter for Tracy Morgan and it is in Spanish, which neither of them can speak. It's a letter from this pretty Latina that is married to the drug czar they've been watching the whole time. Tracy has a bit of a crush on her and she writes him this letter. There is all kinds of funny stuff in the letter. We're going through it and Kevin is shouting out things for me to improvise, some of which I am taking too literally. They were laughing historically, but I'm committed to it. They'd yell things like, "Make like you're vacuum cleaning!" You're completely committed to it because you're thinking, "I'm working for Kevin Smith!" Tracy Morgan was laughing and I didn't know what I did, but it was the high point of my experience.

Q) Why will people want to take their time to see the film?

A) It's hilarious! It's a movie with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, together. I grew up with movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon and Running Scared. It's just a great homage to that great 80's cop buddy movies, the interracial cop movies. It's very much over the top. Sean William Scott is hilarious. It's the first movie that Kevin Smith hasn't written the script for and it very much has that genre feel with his out there, dirty sense of humor. It's an amazingly hilarious two hours.

Q) Where can people go online to learn more about you?

A) My wife and I have a production company and we're trying to get a couple new films made after The Cake Eaters. You can go to our website, which ishttp://www.vinylfoote.com. You can also go to http://www.jaycebartok.com.

Q) What is your latest obsession? A film? A sport? A book? A TV show?

A) It's a little embarrassing, but it is "Celebrity Rehab" on VH1. I like that program very much! It's deeply moving and addictive. Also, I love the show "Men of a Certain Age" on TNT. I just think it is such a great show. I think there is such good writing on it and on "Modern Family." Then, we have a one year old so I find myself watching way too much "Sesame Street" and liking it.