We spoke w/ BryanCranston about 'Jerry & Marge Go Large,' working with WesAnderson, 'Asteroid City,' AndrewStanton, JohnCarter, and his process before filming a big scene.
This summer, Academy Award-nominees Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening portrayed real-life couple Jerry and Marge Semblee in David Frankel’s charming feature adaptation Jerry & Marge Go Large. In this feel-good movie that's based on a true story, the married couple decides to take advantage of Jerry’s penchant for mathematics and puzzles to successfully hack the Michigan and Massachusetts Lotteries.
You know what? That would be a good study. When you look at all the successful films, they go, “Oh, yeah, look at all these wonderful films that did incredibly well.” Go back and look at films that did not do well at the box office and say, “Why? What missed? Where did it miss? Is it the story, is it marketing, is it-?”
CRANSTON: I never really did. I'm a huge baseball fan and I had a big birthday, and a lot of the presents that came on this birthday were memorabilia. So I was given these gifts, and it's like baseball cards, and baseballs, and plaques, and pictures and things like that, and baseball bats and this. It's like, “Oh my,” I have all these things and I put them on display in my office, and I did an interview, and I made a mistake of having the interviewer come up to my office.
I read another one, I go, “I don't know about that. It's kind of dark.” I look back at Jerry & Marge, and I kept looking back at Jerry & Marge, and that's always a good sign. If I keep thinking about something, it's starting to enter my subconscious. I just thought, why not do something that lifts the spirits of people? To this day I say, Jerry & Marge Go Large will not change your life, but it can change your day and there's value to that.
Absolutely. Listen, I always think that the real story's there, the movie, it needs to be a movie. I think sometimes people forget that. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan and I loved your work in Isle of Dogs.It was a voiceover work. When you were voicing it, did you think to yourself, “Maybe I'll finally get the call for live action?”
CRANSTON: Yeah, and when someone like that calls, I did the same thing with Tom Hanks. When he calls for something, it's like, “Yes. And what am I doing?” I say to Wes Anderson, “Yes, what is it you want me to do?” That's the way it is for all the actors. We kind of show up and say, “How do you want to do this?”
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