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September 15,2006
Arts
Scene I NT Da ly
Last Ki ss star
puckers up
ByJimmyAlford
Arts Editor
Q: What do you find
more rewarding to work
in, TV or movies?
A: They're both really cool.
"Scrubs" has become such a fam-
ily. And a movie's great because
you're always doing something
new, playing a completely differ-
ent character than the next and
you can challenge yourself more.
Q: It seems right now
that you have a really
good balance going on
between writing I *ect-
ng and acting, o \ ou
see the balance shifting
for you anytime soon?
A: I think if I had to choose, I
would choose directing just be-
cause it asks everything of you. You
have to be a little bit of a writer, a
little bit of a photographer, a little
bit of an actor and it's just a giant
puzzle. And I enjoy the challenge
of juggling all those balls. But I get
pleasure out of doing them all.
Q: It's rumored that
you read the script for
"'"The Last Kiss and
tweaked the dialogue a
little bit. Is this true?
A: Well, first of all Paul Haggis
wrote the script, so the script by no
means needed anything. But I do
feel that I was in a unique position
because I am a writer, and I feel like I
can tweak things that tailor fits them
for me. So I did do a little tinkering
with some of the dialogue, but not
because it needed it ... I wanted to
urinate on it like a dog on a fire hy-
drant and make it my own.
Q: In what ways
does "The Last Kiss"
compare to "Garden
State for you or does
it not compare at all?
A: Well I think people will always
be looking for the comparison, but I
think they're pretty different movies.
I think this is a darker movie. I mean,
I don't want people to be surprised
and think they're going into a light-
hearted romantic comedy. Not that
"Garden State" was that at all, but
I do think that this goes to a pretty
dark place in terms of talking really
openly about relationships and com-
mitment and lust and all those things
that get us in trouble in life.
Q: Your* character in
"Garden State" and your
character in "The Last
Kiss" seem a little bit
alike in the sense that
they're both looking for
something. Are you at-
tracted to those Voles?
A: Maybe at this point in my life,
people are always like, 'Oh that was
the movie about being lost in your
20s.' This is a movie about being
lost in your early 30s. I'm lost at
every age I am. Maybe that's the
kind of story I'm interested in tell-
ing right now. But I just know that
I like the movie. I read it and it felt
like a movie I would want to go see
and a movie that was speaking to
me and my friends and sort of what
we were going through, and I just
thought it was accurate.
Q: Would this movie
make 30-somethings
question their lives and
just bring mid-life cri-
sises closer to their 20s?
A: I don't really think it's a mid-
life crisis. I think it's just about being
freaked out about getting married. I
don't know about your parents, but
all my friend's parents got divorced,
including mine, and there's a line in
the movie where the character says,
'I told you I'd marry you when you
could name three couples you know
personally that lasted more than five
years.' And she can't.
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Scene: North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 2006, newspaper, September 15, 2006; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145366/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.