The sci-fi film starsOwen Wilsonas a depressed man named Greg whose life seems to be coming undone.
He was so passionate and it was so unique.
I couldn’t understand everything he was explaining to me because he got very technical and geeky.
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I said yes immediately.
He had me at “hello.”
Did he have you do anything to prepare for the role?
Did you have to read up on that technical and geeky stuff that he was talking about?
We spent months and months on the phone and talked about it [as] he was rewriting.
I was very involved with Mike.
We worked really hard.
I didn’t eat."
I cooked some food, and Mike and I are talking, he’s like, “Hmmm.
These are very good, do you have more?”
And then when we finished, he goes, “Okay, that was great.
And we’re like, “No, we want to do the scenes.”
“No, I’m good.
This was very helpful.”
He was a joy and so much fun to work with.
And it was funny, and we kept bossing each other around, which was hilarious.
Maybe if another two personalities tried to do that it would go very badly.
He was like, “You should do this like this.
That would be hilarious.”
We would laugh a lot about his versions of what I should be doing.
I think you have to experience the good to appreciate the bad and the bad to appreciate the good.
Sometimes you could appreciate the bad in retrospect with the good.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
