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in your time zone following you for a while you're at your roles in boogie
nights in Chicago gangs New York the hours Magnolia hard a
in 2006 profile you the headline was
one of these days this after all is some one of these days
audiences may remember John C Reilly
a no guarantees show business is a
nickel business how many times have you watched those 0 classic movies that you
love you love everyone in it
and then it's like that Humphrey Bogart yeah no
no no no entirely these people
it but you know on that back in the day when they do that movie with country
burger the like
I got the Bogart film were gonna be it's a gloomy hugest
gonna I will become immortal and film as a result and
a the sounds a timeless the Poway so I think
far as I'm concerned I'll be happy to be forgotten if the roles are still
watched you people are always asking the character actor don't you wanna become
famous don't you wanna
be a marquee star I think the best answer ever come up with that
for that inquiry is every person in the whole world
is the star of their life story so
you play a supporting character is now I keep thinking aren't just a small part
'em
the slight you looking through the to the
lends a viewing experience no matter what character you play so
it's just it's hard to do a leading role as it is to do with
a supporting role i think is so hot that you all that work it takes to
I'm in fact in some ways we're over easier because you have more time the
kinda
get into the slipstream and you can build something over
over the course of a production like supporting actors often like the Special
Forces you know we fly and
in a frenzy and hit the ground we have the like nail it
in three days and I'm and I get out
John does have three films your hand and their three ambitious film that are
wrong
you know often strange and interesting a tail tails
Cowboys and the lobster on all three would seem to be filmed the people
really talking about
what was it like to be a kid who grew up in the south side chicago
start in a theater scene there in Chicago
ends up you can or three films I mean does it sometimes took it to the surreal
it's preposterous yeah like I mean I didn't even really think
I could be an actor like it was something that I did from a really young
age like that probably eight years or so doing plays
but I don't know anyone in my life who was an actor for a living
like no one not even like the antivenom go over
nephew like nobody so I just kept thinking like well
I'm have to figure out what job I'm gonna have
but in the meantime I'll keep doing plays to this is fun
and then I sometime right at the end of college actually
of random I Kevin G O Connor who's from my same neighborhood in Chicago
I got offered a part in this movie Peggy Sue got married the
francis coppola moving and now suddenly this this light bulb went off like
0 you do that for a living then I don't have to get a good job
I can be whatever job I have to be for the part
do you think of yourself as a Chicago actor
oh yeah absolutely now that suddenly Chicago to Los 22 years old
literally sup every time I meet someone no matter where in the world is that
where you from
and I say I'm from Chicago but I live in Los Angeles
about you i think you know chicago's I think the greatest American city
knows that house amber Palmer I'll
Chicago hog butcher to the world city a big shoulders all that
the second half for that home I forgot his road again recently the second half
up almost like all about laughter
hope things about laughter giant hearty laughter like
and thats probably the most important component in chicago is that
the ultimate sin is pretension
that's the worst thing you can do in Chicago you can be
crass and you can be you whenever drunk and disorderly but
if you're pretentious that's like get out you know yeah
you talk about resisting pretension and i was thinkin about how
here films like tail tails and they're so while the lobster that such an
elaborate premise
are received in a particular way this being so the Palace have senator can
whereas um it some other surrealism in the answers mean that differ from what
you might be doing with Tim and Eric
late night on adults welna him down
do you um that blurring like highbrow and lowbrow what's experimental than
what's just
comedy owns the same qualities and stuff across the board whether to play or
movie
Europe and have a private I looked you know I like things that are subversive
like things that are absurd I like stuff that
is a combination of things were something to make you very very sad and
then
suddenly just burst out laughing at how pathetic it is you know like
and I think I think
definitely the lobster and tell tales that traffic
in that world probably wiles also tells a space that they said you wanted
clicking in sicily for two weeks I'll yeah
so that was a real no brainer and so is the Los actually because the
yugoslav months is previous work with just so amazing dog tooth is a
darth the classic serve our time so
you know I have done a lot of Dunham a seventy movies at this point I've
done big comedies and action movies and space movie than of
dollars different stuff that at this point I'm just looking for stuff that's
fine
inspiring and engaging and and something that feels like an adventure
and coming to Europe unless it's a really bad
movie like you can have a great adventure in your
one way or the other so like arm and this is this is the life for me I wanna
be
how do I become a French film star without speaking French
I up you do you find that when you're moving between
you know you're on a Marvel movies up for going Galaxy your
on a low budget films up for an art film your purse the work differently or you
can even the same place no matter what the environment as
yeah it's the same same job
where the comedy or drama or whatever your still you have to connect with the
director film with the
the director's medium you know I'm of the opinion
that actor should be like good soldiers
you know %um loyal prompts
dedicated and trying to like follow orders
you know over the years it seems like you've done more more projects that have
been
the more experimental or absurdist doing that because
that there's possibilities have been there already thing your sensibilities
counting 15 looked another way
let's face it I would probably be doing more conventional
the for when you are me like you
absurd works you know I'm subversive works I don't know
I think if he's down by to what you believe in and you
you have some time integrity about your choices it's a reflection on
for you are gas suing to get stuck on a particular track here typecast and
you're like the ultimate example not there
not being typecast you to move between summit in the honors
hard to pin down are you able to pull that off until you just have to know
when to say no
and sometimes really really hard and very expensive
her but you have to the afternoon I can save a perfect batting record you not
funny thing that
I wish to turn up better than I did but for the most I mean
with I don't think any exceptions that them chosen the path that i won
to to go to this year 6 can hear is such a bizarre place to have a
particularly odd memory of being here can with your
your strangest iran is now with Paul Thomas Anderson the first time with his
movie hard eight and we were this these
young idiots don't know what we're doing runaround
can hustling for can't pay his I
and I remember you being in some weird rest on the whole lot of French people
in it
I think we're the only Americans in there and they're like now we're going
to have karaoke
I can always rest are you alright
and was little stayed at the end to this restaurant lesser than karaoke and I was
like I'm doing I the tiger
I
but and i got up into a tire with karate moves out kicking over the mic stand and
freaking the French karaoke guy I know it was you miss your PC
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