likeastairmaster:

AVC: Jesse, your press notes start by saying your character is a “big wuss.” Was that how the character was described to you?

JE: No, my agent said it was leading man, they said it was—

WH: Courageous.

JE: Yeah, courageous in the vein of a modern day Humphrey Bogart, like Casablanca in high school. That’s how she described it to me. [Laughs.] I think she was talking about the wrong movie.

WH: If only you could read these [press notes] before you shoot.

JE: What do they write about me? [Thumbs through press notes.] Actually the second little paragraph in the script was, “It was then we hear the voice of a witty, anxiety-ridden everyman,” and in the parentheses it said, “Think Seth Green.” That’s what it said in the actual script, the full text of the script, which can win awards. So I was not even the correct wuss.

AVC: These two main characters have the dynamic prevalent in a lot of movies nowadays: The badass older guy and the young, scared buck who comes into his own.

JE: Yeah, I’m like the Danny Glover.

WH: I’m halfway to despondent at this point realizing how much of a cliché this movie is.

JE: [Laughs.] Yeah, I didn’t realize we were hacks.

(Source: The A.V. Club)