- Collider: What was it like to work with Richard Ayoade on The Double? Submarine had such a very unique style. How would you describe this film and its visual style?
- JESSE: They built an entire world for the movie. Every set was built. They basically built an entire city. It’s incredible! So, the style is so unique. It’s a funny movie, but it’s very dark and terrifying. This character that I play, his life is overtaken by his doppleganger, so he’s struggling for not only his identity, but his life. The style of it is so consistently dystopian that I think it will be just fantastic. It was really a weird world to inhabit, as an actor, and I imagine that, as an audience it will be as well because you won’t see the camera and it won’t take you out of it, like it did for me.
She is obviously, you know, wonderful. The tone of the movie we’re doing is so strange. Within any given moment we are on all ends of the emotional spectrum. All the characters in this movie navigate this very strange world of being funny, but real and tragic and whimsical and her character is kind of enigmatic, traffic, but oddly pleasant. She is able to kind of find all these different aspects in a way that is totally consistent with the very odd tone.
It’s like just because the adults thought it was a great idea, we would too. But kids think differently than adults think. Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally. That’s why I’m giving Robert Frost Elementary School and ‘Healthy Lunches, Healthy Choices’ 256 out of 2000 stars.
Jesse was one of the most pleasurable actors to work with that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. His willingness to dive in and be his character all day long on the set… I’d give him a hard time all day long and he’d give me a harder time back and I’d bring to him — each week that we worked I brought a little gift to him, like really ridiculous things — shoelaces and things like that, but I’m his mommy and I figured I’d spent a lot of birthdays with him. And his acceptance of the presents was so filled with Eli, and so to work with an actor who’s willing to go all the way down that road with you so that both of you are, quite simply, better prepared to go in front of the cameras when that moment — you never know when it’s gonna happen — happens, and there you are, and the scene’s shot and you don’t have a chance to go back over it […] So that thing of being able to play with another actor, where on one hand it’s very silly and just quite frankly a lot of fun and why what I do is called playing… not really all that many actors who are willing to be quite as fun, have as much fun with it.
- INTERVIEWER: Did you hear about actor Jesse Eisenberg declaring that Ween was the only band he listened to?
- MICKEY: Yeah, he’s a huge fan. I’ve heard a lot of stories before that even, and since about his Ween fandom. “Oh man, that guy loves you. I was working on the set of this or that, I was wearing my Ween t-shirt. He came over to me and he didn’t stop for 20 minutes.” He's seen us a bunch of times apparently, but never introduced himself.
- INTERVIEWER: Are you a fan of his acting?
- MICKEY: Yeah, I think he’s great actually. I love Zombieland. The one I love.
- INTERVIEWER: That’s a great movie.
- MICKEY: My son is really into zombies. He’s eleven years old. Walking Dead. Zombieland. Anything zombies. We’ve watched that movie like a hundred times, but I’ve never seen The Social Network and I hear it’s a great movie.
- INTERVIEWER: Oh my god. You have to see it.
- MICKEY: I hear it’s killer. And it’s an interesting story I hear. Who would be interested in seeing a movie about that? It doesn’t sound like a great concept for a film. But apparently, it’s really, really compelling. People’s opinions I really trust have unanimously told me that I have to see it.
- INTERVIEWER: Honestly, if I had to rank it. In my opinion, it’s one of the strongest movies in the last decade.
- MICKEY: That’s what I’ve heard. When people that talk about it, their opinions about it are that strong and positive. He got nominated for an Oscar, right?
- INTERVIEWER: Yup. He was up for best actor for that.
- MICKEY: Well, there you go.
Mom had a date with a guy she called her ‘Widower Friend.’ ‘Widower’ means your wife died and ‘Friend,’ when Mom says it about a man, means someone rich who Mom is trying to marry. I never get to go on dates with Mom, but Mom wanted me to meet her Widower Friend because she wanted to show him what a good Mom she can be to his two daughters, who no longer have a mother.
The Widower Friend didn’t know I was coming when he asked to meet Mom at The Whiskey Blue Bar and, since I am not old enough to go to a bar, Mom said that we had to pretend to be staying at the W Hotel. I told Mom that I didn’t want to lie to the hotel people but Mom said it was okay in this case because it was just a white lie, which I guess is a lie that white people are allowed to say without feeling guilty.
The Widower Friend didn’t know I was coming when he asked to meet Mom at The Whiskey Blue Bar and, since I am not old enough to go to a bar, Mom said that we had to pretend to be staying at the W Hotel. I told Mom that I didn’t want to lie to the hotel people but Mom said it was okay in this case because it was just a white lie, which I guess is a lie that white people are allowed to say without feeling guilty.
Dave and Jesse do card tricks for Jake. [x]
Interviewer: Can I ask you who you’re wearing, by the way? ‘Cause I am doing a story about fashion as well.
Jesse: You mean my tuxedo? Yes it’s..it’s..it’s….Yes it’s…
Interviewer: Oh, Dolce and Gabbana!
Jesse: Where does it..Where does it say?
Interviewer: It says it right here…
Jesse: Oh yes, yes, that’s right.
Interviewer: What do you think when you dress for things like this? Do you overthink it or anything at all?
Jesse: I literally have no idea what I put on. Somebody hands it to me before I leave the house, I put it on and then, you know, look forward to taking it off and wearing my boxer shorts.22nd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala
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