"If you don't play it dead serious, you're not going to get the comedy out of it"
Stephen Root talks to Rolling Stone about his greatest roles, from Wyck on 'Widow's Bay' to Milton in 'Office Space' and more.
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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Tom Holland would call "Spider-Man" producers from "The Odyssey" set in order to "lay down the law" about filming blockbusters the Christopher Nolan way:
“I'd say, ‘We are not going to come to set and figure it out. We need to know why we are making this movie beyond the fact that it’s ‘Spider-Man 4’ and they make loads of money and we’re going to just have a big summer. Why are we making this movie?’ And Destin was super instrumental in that, but it was just really great to constantly be calling up the studio and [producers] Amy [Pascal] and Rachel [O’Connor], who I love, and be like, ‘Well, Chris is doing it this way. This is how I think we should be doing it.’ ” (via GQ)
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Director Denis Villeneuve considers Rendezvous with Rama his first true hard sci-fi film—grounded, realistic, and closer in style to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than Dune’s epic scope.
Eric Roth wrote the screenplay. The production will showcase Villeneuve’s signature slow-burn tension, vast minimalist visuals, and immersive practical/VFX sequences inside the giant alien cylinder.
The project will be budgeted at $190–250 million but is currently behind Villeneuve's upcoming James Bond film.
@sasimons Earnest question.
You have a wealth of comedy knowledge but most of the articles I see you share (albeit I haven’t done a particularly through search) are criticisms of comedy/comics.
What do you enjoy?
Channing Tatum and Tessa Thompson will star in Charlie Kaufman's new film ‘LATER THE WAR’.
The film follows a director - famous for blockbuster comedies - who decides to direct a serious Holocuast film to get the artistic legitimacy that he craves.
(Source: Deadline)