The multi-talented Duplass Brothers are embarking on their latest film journey, which will be a stoner comedy starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms. Both actors have a knack for delivering a funny line or two, and they know a little something about “acting” like their under the influence. The film is entitled, Jeff Who Lives at Home and it’s currently set for production over at Paramount.
As she bills time in big fares like Wild Hogs or Anger Management, Marisa Tomei has been building a stealth career in indie circles. In the Bedroom was the game-changing critical darling. She stole scenes as the two-timing Gina in Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. Most stars are happy to get pigeonholed for life, with minor exceptions, because the work is guaranteed. Angelina Jolie will always get suitcases of money to play asskicking femme-fatales. Try to find a variation of middle class manchild that Adam Sandler won’t tackle for a solid script and a good price.
That’s not to say the aforementioned haven’t taken left turns here and there, or that Tomei herself is above a safe, studio gig. But with a project from the Duplass Brothers (writer/directors of Screencrave-fave Baghead) on the horizon and now Aronofsky’s The Wrestler opening this weekend, Marisa Tomei’s trajectory is becoming impossible to predict. She doesn’t have a packaged anecdote for why this is so, and she bristles when she’s pressed about it. She’s attracted by the ambiguous and, for lack of a better term, the ugly truth. She’s inspired by it.
Last week she spoke to ScreenCrave about what gives The Wrestler its edge, and how she managed to take some of the shine off the Stripper with A Heart o’ Gold.
