Bill Hader Based His 'Superbad' Character On A Real Police Officer Who Arrested Him

Bill Hader knows how to draw inspiration from real life.

The 44-year-old Barry actor revealed that Officer Slater from 2007′s Superbad was based on a real police officer who arrested him after a prank went awry.

“My dad did the classic ‘let me tell you something I did, but hey, you guys can’t do this,’ and we were like, ‘Uh-huh,’” Bill said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “He was like, ‘We used to take two trash cans and put fishing wire between ‘em and we’d put one on either side of the street and when a car goes through, the trash cans go bop on the side of the car. It was hilarious, but don’t do that.’ And we were like, ‘Okay!’”

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“It’s really late at night. We’re at a park, we’re waiting, and here comes a car. I’m like, ‘Alright, ready, go!’ And we pull it up. The car goes through… It’s a cop car,” Bill said. “The rope is too long that the trash cans go behind the car and they bang into each other, so it looks like he just got married.”

“Everybody ran, but I was like, ‘Aww, I’m gonna be cool,’” he said. “So I went over to my car and was just smoking a cigarette, like, ‘Hey, what happened, officer?’”

“He was like, ‘F— you!’” Bill continued. “He had a flashlight and then he made me pick up beer cans. I got arrested afterwards.”

“That is the guy that I based my character in Superbad on,” Bill said. “I remember when I did that movie… and I go, ‘I got messed with by a cop with glasses,’

Superbad starred Michael Cera and Jonah Hill who navigate the last weeks of high school and are invited to a gigantic house party.

Bill recently explained why the show Barry will be ending after the upcoming fourth season.