After making his film debut in “All the Real Girls” (2003), actor-writer Danny R. McBride kept an exceptionally low profile in Hollywood until 2006, when his starring turn in the indie comedy “The Foot Fist Way” (2008) generated considerable buzz at the Sundance Film Festival. Critics and actors alike queued up to praise the quirky comedy and singled out McBride’s starring turn as a deluded martial arts instructor. The film’s reputation among comic actors like Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, and Seth Rogen helped land McBride in small but showy parts in big-budget comedies like “Hot Rod” (2006),
