The director, co-writer and co-star of Super Troopers 3 sits down and smokes up at the Woods WeHo for an enlightened sesh touching on stoner comedies, the challenges of legal weed and pullover pranks in the era of TikTok.
In advance of the August 7 release of Super Troopers 3, the long-awaited third installment of the rural cops-and-cannabis-caper franchise written by and starring the Broken Lizard boys (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske), High Times invited director, co-writer and co-star Jay Chandrasekhar to sit down, smoke up and talk all things Super Troopers. And he enthusiastically accepted.
Over the course of an hour-long sesh in the Woods West Hollywood’s treehouse cabana fueled by a Talking Trees Farms Blue Certz preroll, our conversation was fun, fast-paced and surprisingly frank. Touching on everything from the challenges facing legal weed to what makes something a stoner movie, the excerpts below have been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.
From L to R: Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Sakina Jaffrey, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Iqbal Theba, Hannah Simone, and Lisa Gilroy in SUPER TROOPERS 3. Photo by Patrick Harbron, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2026 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
HT: So you’ve been working with these characters for almost a quarter of a century now. Does it change how you guys write them or how you direct them?
Jay Chandrasekhar: No, what changes is based on each movie’s story. In this one, for example, Mac wants to be young again so that’s what he’s about in every scene; he’s trying to hook up with the young [event-planner] girl, he’s trying to jump the creek. It’s all what he’s focused on. So it’s the story first. And then the character work …
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Author: Adam Tschorn / High Times
