“The Wonderful Race” famously impressed Mike White to create “The White Lotus” after showing on the truth collection (he additionally was in “Survivor”), nevertheless it seems that White wasn’t the one well-known filmmaker who was a fan-turned-contestant. Will Forte revealed to Vulture that he and his “MacGruber” co-star, late actor Val Kilmer, virtually joined “The Wonderful Race” after each binging the collection.
Forte and Kilmer co-starred in 2010 “SNL” spinoff spoof movie “MacGruber,” and later lived collectively in 2011. Throughout their cohabitation, Forte obtained Kilmer into watching “The Wonderful Race.” Kilmer died at age 65 in 2025 after battling throat most cancers for greater than a decade, and Forte now says that not competing in “The Wonderful Race” with him is his “greatest remorse.”
“I used to look at ‘The Wonderful Race’ and he got here again residence in some unspecified time in the future after I was watching it and was like, ‘What are you watching that rubbish for? Come on, that stuff’s going to rot your thoughts.’ I stated, ‘It’s fairly good. It is best to sit down and watch it. Give it a attempt earlier than you shit on it.’ So he sat down and began watching it and he obtained actually into it,” Forte informed stated in a tribute to the actor. “Then at a sure level he stated, ‘Will, you and I’ve to go do “The Wonderful Race.” We’ve got to. Let’s do “The Wonderful Race.”‘ And I’m like, ‘I’m so absolutely in.’ We obtained actually enthusiastic about it after which we known as our respective brokers and managers they usually have been like, ‘There’s no means you guys are doing that.’ That’s, possibly to this present day, the largest remorse of my entire profession, that I by no means did ‘The Wonderful Race’ with Val. I feel we’d’ve gotten out in a short time nevertheless it simply would’ve been the expertise of a lifetime.”
Kilmer beforehand shared his “love” for Forte in 2012, when he stated on Twitter that dwelling with Forte was a hilarious expertise. “I like Will Forte. He let me reside in his spare room whereas I used to be discovering a brand new residence final 12 months,” Kilmer wrote. “God he’s humorous.”