WEIRDLAND

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Michael Cera, proud of Arrested Development

"I wanted to be Dr. Pete Venkman when I grew up.

I hate auditions. I had a woman scream at me when I was nine years old for doing a voice my mother told me to do. The character's name was PeeWee. So my mom said, "Maybe you should do a funny voice." And then after, this casting woman, this mean, bitter old woman — I was scared to death of her — she said, "Michael, tell me about yourself, what do you like to do in your spare time?" In my regular voice, I said, "Um, you know, I like to play with my friends and stuff..." And she started screaming, "I knew it! Let me tell you something, young man. Acting is not about funny voices!" So that scared me from ever doing a funny voice again. I got that message loud and clear.

I auditioned for The Sixth Sense, which I didn't know was about seeing dead people. They didn't mention that in the breakdown. After seeing the movie, and remembering the scene they had me read... It was the scene with the penny. Bruce Willis is saying, "I can't be your doctor anymore", and Haley Joel Osment starts crying and slides the penny over to him. It's a very emotional scene. And I did not do it that way. I did it upbeat. I said "Some magic's real" very optimistically.

There is this strange sense of competition among child actors. There were a few kids, I knew if I saw them at the audition, they were going to get the part. Now they're on Degrassi.
Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.
People want to make a movie. There are articles on the Internet that center me out as the reason it's not being made. I don't know where that stuff comes from. It could always fall through, but I think everyone wants to make it.
I could tell when someone was an Arrested Development fan. They were normally very polite, and it was intimate. It was like a club. They would say things like, "Can you believe it? We couldn't save it." There was a real sense of teamwork. But when Superbad came out, there was no way to know. It was the hugest thing I'd ever done. Suddenly I had drunk guys coming up to me, high-fiving me, grabbing me, which was different from having a nice conversation with somebody about this show we both loved.What's the difference between love and sex? That's normally one of the questions? Really? I don't think I'd like that guy very much. I would give a very literal answer to that.

I did a TV show for three years where, like, nobody cared about that stuff. Then I did a movie that was, like, a romantic movie — and people are so stupid. So many interviewers started asking the most basic questions they could think of. I hate when people do that. I can't imagine doing that to another person. That says a lot to me about you as a human being if you're going to ask a question like that just for the sake of your article. I don't know if you read the Internet, but there are some really creepy people out there, and I just don't want them to have that kind of information about me.
I went to high school for a year, and then after that I was doing the TV show, so I did the rest of it online. But that year went really slowly. It felt like forever. High school, I think, is unenjoyable except for the people who completely dominate it. It's a game, and you can only really win if you have the physical requirements to win. Yeah, those were short shorts in Juno. Were they given to me? Like, do you mean, or did I bring them from home?I play guitar. I play piano a little bit. I can't read music, but I can learn a song piece by piece. I just play the same songs over and over. I got a new electric piano. It's so great. It's a Wurlitzer from the 1960s. I have one at my place in L. A., too. Here, I'll show you a picture... This is my piano. The light's kind of funny. My piano looks like it's from heaven in that picture.

My penis? No, I wouldn't do that".
Source: www.esquire.com

"Yesterday, fans of Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera uttered a collective "Noooooooo!" when Star magazine "reported" that Cera had dumped Yi after three years of dating because he wanted to sow his wild oats (maybe with a girl named Maeby?). There's just one problem: According to Yi, who's best known for her role as a stoner in 'Knocked Up,' she and Cera have never, ever dated. "We weren't dating at the time [laughs] ... or ever. I also heard that we broke up [laughs]. Someone sent me an article that said I was really sad. It says that I'm sad that we're touring together. But he's actually in Toronto right now filming a movie called 'Scott Pilgrim.' So that's interesting [laughs]."
Source: www.moviefone.com

Note from Weirdland:
I already knew of this relationship between Michael and Charlyne as most imaginary, long time ago, but one of my main rules in Weirdland being discretion, I preferred not to ruin the geek fantasies of many fans of the duo Cera/Yi.

The case is this girl named Chloe T. from Winchester had an argument in Youtube with Charlyne when both interchanged some bitter comments in one of Charlyne's music videos and Michael Cera's so-called girlfriend sent Chloe one private message that stated she "wasn't going out with that guy" but that even if she had dated him, that wasn't Chloe's business since "he's a stranger". I agree with Charlyne that majority of teenage female fans of Cera can be intrusive and annoying. Chloe sent me the original message but I never made it public.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Elton John dedicates "Tiny Dancer" to Reese

"Reese Witherspoon and beau Jake Gyllenhaal take her kids, Ava, 9, and Deacon, 5, to the Elton John and Billy Joel concert held on Saturday night (August 1) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Penn.Deacon had the best view in the house, sitting stop Jake’s shoulders. During the 3-1/2 hour show, Elton dedicated the song “Tiny Dancer” to Reese, saying, “Reese, this one’s for you, girl.”
The happy family danced to “Crocodile Rock” with Reese and Jake bumping their hips together.
Reese is in town shooting the not-yet-titled James L. Brooks movie".
Source: justjared.buzznet.com

"So I turn around, and sitting in the seats behind us were Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and her 2 kids. It was so surreal.

(One quick note on celebrity, it must suck sometimes. Every single person in a 30 feet radius was taking photos and staring . At first I just naturally assumed they were all readers of my blog, so I just kept waving and waving. Not. Reese Witherspoon’s kids were so crazy cute. And those two seem like really great parents to those kids. Particularly Jake Gyllenhaal who spent most of the concert with Reese’s son on his shoulders.)"
Source: blog.timesunion.com

Bijou Phillips (Some Kinda Love) video


A video dedicated to the beautiful actress Bijou Phillips, with her newlywed husband Danny Masterson, stills from "Hostel 2", with director Eli Roth and co-star Heather Matarazzo, etc.

Songs "Some kinda love" by The Velvet Underground and "I'm not willing" by Moby Grape.

Taking Woodstock's actors reply to fans

Yesterday it was a live Interview via Twitter by Focus Features with "Taking Woodstock" actors Emile Hirsch and Liev Schreiber Sunday morning at 10:30am EST

I submitted a question through Taking Woodstock facebook at the last minute:
What kind of connection is there between 60's and 90's music for you, Emile? Do you think this type of big festivals was destined to die? Did you, both Emile and Demetri, feel really connected to this movement while you made your scenes? thanks!

Some of the last questions answered via Focus Features's feedback:

FocusFeatures #TWEmile It was just an exciting time for me.
about 7 hours ago from web

FocusFeatures #TWEmile It was just a different kind of experience b/c I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I really liked how the movie turned out.
about 7 hours ago from web

#TWEmile #TWLiev Jennifer Castilleja Why did you decide to audition for this movie? And do you believe in what Woodstock stood for?
about 7 hours ago from web

FocusFeatures #TWEmile Woodstock for me more than anything stood for good vibes.
about 7 hours ago from web

FocusFeatures #TWEmile Ang Lee was the 1st & foremost reason why I did this film. I’ve always wanted to work w/ him & he’s an absolute master craftsman
about 7 hours ago from web

FocusFeatures #TWEmile Because they had mixed it in with vegetable oil to create our perfect movie mud. It’s not as bad as it sounds.
about 7 hours ago from web

FocusFeatures #TWEmile I had to talk to several veterans about this very specific thing that happens after forms of post-traumatic stress.
about 7 hours ago from web

FocusFeatures #TWEmile Billy had a series of Vietnam veteran flashbacks that were challenging to portray.
Source: twitter.com

Questions via Focus Features Twitter to Liev Schreiber:

#TWLiev Whether or not I believed in Woodstock, it’s permanently changed the cultural landscape of this country.
about 7 hours ago from web

#TWLiev There wasn’t a question of deciding. Ang had asked to have a meeting w/ me and I’d do anything for him. It’s great to watch him work
about 7 hours ago from web

#TWLiev One of the 1st movies I made right out of school was called The Daytrippers & I was a really self-involved young novelist named Carl
Source: www.twitter.com

"Taking Woodstock" has an unobtrusive eye for period detail. True Grit is playing at the local cinema, the Apollo moon landings are on the television and the war in Vietnam has become part of the fabric of daily life. 1969 is the dawning of the age of Richard Nixon and the film raises a cheer for a moment in which hope had yet to surrender to bitter disillusion. If half a million hippies can live in harmony with the law-abiding folks of the American heartland then maybe for at least these three days anything was possible". Source: www.screendaily.com

"The film is based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), who organized the legendary Woodstock concert almost single-handedly as the chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce in the laid-back upper New York village of Bethel - until help came along from Manhattan rock music professionals. Taking Woodstock can be described as a laid-back comedy - a sparkling effort to capture (in Lee's words) "the last moment of innocence".

To Lee's credit, rather than recreating the concert itself, Taking Woodstock follows members of the community as they stumble along in their preparations to host one of the greatest rock festivals in American music annals: Tiber, his immigrant Jewish parents (played to the Holocaust hilt by British actors Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman) and local friends from the town of Bethel. Martin is solid as the quiet, unassuming impresario who is, however, not above smoking hashish and tippling acid if need be to support the event on a personal level. A would-be theatrical group willing to strip nude at any opportunity to rile up the community resides on the farm. Emile Hirsch, as the Vietnam War veteran who returns home with war memories roaring through his head, adds needed political relevance to the story as it unfolds.For my taste, however, it's Liev Schreiber as Thelma, the gay cross-dressing ex-marine, who steals the show". Source: movingpicturesmagazine.com

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Emile Hirsch - It's on with Alexa Chung interview


Emile Hirsch On Baring It All video:
Emile Hirsch talks on eating squirrels, getting perms and going naked for his new flick, Taking Woodstock.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Paper Moon - String of Blinking Lights

Paper Moon - String of Blinking Lights from Tim Der on Vimeo.


"See a behind the scenes special from Overture Films' "Paper Heart" comedy starring Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera and Jake M. Johnson. the film opens on August 7th in limited areas. Nicholas Jasenovec directs the film as well as writting alongside Charlyne Yi".
Watch Paper Moon behind the scenes video

Sexy bloodsuckers

Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, Michael Welch, and Twilight co.
"Last week at Comic-Con, the big story wasn't comic books—it was vampires. Some 2,000 young women set up a tent city outside the San Diego Convention Center on Tuesday, sleeping rough so that they could attend the Thursday panel on New Moon, the upcoming sequel to vampire blockbuster Twilight. It's just another sign of the massive popularity of vampires. The original Dracula in Dracula loved to drink blood. He has "white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth." He forces Mina Harker to his bosom, where "[h]er white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down [his] bare chest," and he compels her to drink his blood, like a "child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk. ..." This bodily fluid fetishism was par for the course for the next 79 years, until Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire, when Ms. Rice started to tweak up the Gothness. In her books, vampires were better known for being immortal than for sucking blood, which makes their fascination with humans even more mysterious: After living among us for hundreds of years, haven't they heard all of our jokes by now?"
Source: www.slate.com

STEPHEN MOYER / Bill Compton on True Blood
"True Blood’s Stephen Moyer and Twilight’s Robert Pattinson take the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly, which ranks the 20 greatest vampires in its latest issue".

1. Lestat, Interview With the Vampire
2. Christopher Lee’s Dracula
3. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula
4. Edward Cullen, Twilight
5. Bill and Eric, True Blood
6. Asa Vajda, 1960’s Black Sunday
7. Angel
8. Mr. Barlow, Salem’s Lot
9. Schuyler Van Alen, Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series
10. Gary Oldman’s Dracula
11. Klaus Kinski’s Dracula
12. Zoey Redbird, P.C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night series
13. Jean-Claude, Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
14. David, 1987’s The Lost Boys
15. Miriam Blaylock and Sarah Roberts, 1983’s The Hunger
16. Blade, the Blade trilogy
17. Eli, 2008’s Let the Right One In
18. Countess Bathory, 1971’s Daughters of Darkness
19. Selene, the Underworld trilogy
20. Caleb and Mae, 1987’s Near Dark
Source: justjared.buzznet.com

RACHELLE LEFEVRE Victoria in Twilight (2008)
Maybe revenge is a dish best served hot. Victoria may be plotting against Bella and Edward (Edward killed her partner in vamp crime), but Lefevre makes villainhood seem pretty darn appealing. Too bad she's been replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the third Twi-flick, Eclipse.
ELISABETH REASER Esme in Twilight (2008)
We have a soft spot for hot moms, and Esme Cullen is way at the top of the list — sure, she's physically frozen in the body of a 26-year-old, which helps, but she's also devoted and thoughtful, and Reaser's easy warmth comes through despite the ostensible icy pallor.
Source: www.ew.com

"While Pattinson was off having a maybe-fling with his other co-star, Emille de Ravin, Stewart decided to get back together with her ex boyfriend, dashing Pattinson’s hope of a reunion. At least, according to the National Enquirer. I’m hoping that behind the scenes these two are quietly still together and will eventually get married and have supernatural babies.

According to Star Magazine, there might been an even more sinister twist to the Pattinson/Stewart love pentagon.
Kirsten Dunst is said to be trying to get her skinny thrift store claws on Edward, I mean Robert!
After all, Kirsten had her own taste of bloodsucking notoriety in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire!
[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 10, 2009]
TOM CRUISE
Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (1994)
If we ever had an occasion to publish the sentence ''Tom Cruise is endlessly sexy in this movie,'' this would be it. Lestat is a proper vampire who actually drinks human blood. Edward Cullen, take note".
Source: www.celebitchy.com

Friday, July 31, 2009

Jessica Biel in "Powder Blue"


Screencaps of Jessica Biel as Rose Johnny in "Powder Blue" (2009).