- Michael Cera details “the biggest shock” he obtained when he read the script for the new Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician Program.
- Cera remembers taking private dinners with Anderson in the edition suite and seeing the “particular” way that Anderson works.
- The actor also teases an upcoming advertisement in which he plays with Anderson and Fellow Phoenician diagram Star Rupert Friend.
When Michael Cera first obtained the script for the new Wes Anderson joint The Phoenician ProgramHe was, well, shocked.
“The biggest surprise – when Wes sent me the script – I did not expect to be along the whole ride,” he said Weekly entertainmentAdmitting that he did not realize that his character would be part of the whole film. He adds with a smile, “and it was exciting to watch Wes essentially do this whole film.”
In this document, Cera embodies the Norwegian entomologist Bjorn, who is first brought as a personal tutor to the rich businessman ZSA-ZSA Korda (Benicio Del Toro). Korda names her only daughter, a nun (Mia Threrapleton), as an unique heir to her succession, then embarks on a new financial program with the said girl and Bjorn for all the action (and, unfortunately for them, all the fans assassination attempts On the life of Korda too).
Going so in close collaboration with the scriptwriter-director Anderson, Del Toro, Threrapleton was “very fulfilling” for the Scott Pilgrim against the world star. “To collaborate with people like Wes and Benicio and Mia and watch them do their thing and watch the film come together, it’s very rewarding,” he said. “It was nice to be with all the production with them.”
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With his hilarious accent, her breathtaking manners and her glasses designed to make his eyes too small, Cera is so perfect that Bjorn that you would think that he was born to play a role in the cinematic universe of Wes Anderson. And yet, in a way, it was the first time he worked with the Oscar -winning author.
As such, Cera did not take a single second for acquired. “You just have a chance to make this film and you want to make sure to deliver the great material that Wes has created,” he said about his state of mind on the set. “It is really good equipment. I think it’s the challenge in a certain way: you just want to make sure to nail it. But working with Wes, you work there until you feel good. He is very relentless in this pursuit. So you feel confident as an actor that you are going to get it. You work with someone who is not going to go until there is.”
The Anderson sets are famous for two things: with a rotating stable of the greatest players in Hollywood and legendary dinners with the casting. Cera says he attended some of these rallies, but preferred to join his wife and two grandchildren “whenever possible” during breaks. However, there were other nights when its director would take his dinner in the editing rest and invited Cera to join him.
“I’m just going to dinner with Wes while he changes the film and see the film get together a little, and it was great, and it’s just exciting,” he spoke. “It is exciting to see things that you were not part too, to see the film come together and to see a little how Wes works too – it’s very special. I feel like each stage of the path, each part of the process, Wes works in a very particular way for him.”
So, now that he has a taste, can we expect Cera to be added to the Anderson-Verse rotation, which often includes tastes Bill Murray,, Owen Wilson,, Jason Schwartzman,, Adrien Brody,, Edward Norton,, Tilda Swinton,, Willem Dafoe,, Jeff GoldblumAnd Anjelica Hustonamong others? “I hope to work again with Wes,” admits Cera. “I don’t know what he cooks now, but it would be fun. I would love to continue working with him. He does a great job, and it’s a wonderful experience, and it’s difficult and it’s fun, and you have a good time. He is really a great host.”
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In the meantime, however, fans do not technically have to wait a long time to see Anderson and Cera together again. The actor teases that he was able to act alongside Anderson in a Montblanc advertisement, with a colleague Phoenician diagram Ambassador of the Star and the Rupert Friend brand. “It was very fun, actually, just to play with Wes. We pulled it in March or something, and I think it comes out soon, maybe June or something,” he said, adding with a sly smile, “he turned out to be really funny, I think.”
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The Phoenician Program Now play in theaters.