It remains one of the most incredible moments of my life. "I ended up sitting around a pool with Sloan until the sun came up, talking about music. and through him they said, 'we're going back to this hotel, if you want to come.'" “They were opening for a band, I knew the drummer in the band. “I went to go see them play when I just turned 16 and I was at a show, and I ended up talking to them,” Schwartzman recalled. "I was 17 when we met, he was the first person that wasn't in my family, that was over the age of 20, that actually asked me a question and cared what I said, and was curious about what I was interested in, and that was unusual," Schwartzman said in Cannes.īut Schwartzman also highlights the Canadian band Sloan is an exception to that statement, one of his favourite bands and another example of adults who really listened to Schwartzman as a teen. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) Jason Schwartzman thanks Canadian band Sloan for 'incredible' momentįollowing a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, Schwartzman was widely quoted for saying that Anderson was one of the first adults in his life to care about what he said. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 13: Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson attend the New York premiere of "Asteroid City" at Alice Tully Hall on Jin New York City. I was on the other side of it, and I loved it.” “The way Jake is talking to me and the way I'm relating to him is the way that I was encouraged, and glad I was encouraged, and learned how to be with adults on Rushmore and other things. “So much of the time I feel like I have been a younger person talking to these adults and enjoying the feeling that I don't normally get, which is to just talk to them like they're not adults," Schwartzman said. Schwartzman went on to highlight that the Augie character in Asteroid City reminds the actor of his Anderson movie roles of the past, when he was playing younger characters and the older person was on "equal ground." with a 17-year-old kid and his six-year-old daughters, I must have said many times, 'I'm leaving and you're in charge of this.'" I leaned on him heavily and I realized how much my character would have leaned on him. I think there's just a built-in thing, which is that Jake. “The way that I spoke to them or acted around them, I wanted them to feel like I was their father. I think just age, his job, being a father, the way Wes wrote it, it just appealed to me to try to play someone who had that much life experience.” "The way he thinks about things is a new type of thinking for me, in terms of characters. "This character sounds so interesting because he's got the same thing, but in a totally different part of his life." this energetic kind of dissatisfaction, or restlessness," Schwartzman told Yahoo Canada. “I think some other characters I've played, there's a sense of. Augie is a war photographer but he's also dealing with the death of his wife, which he hasn't told his children about, until they head to the desert town of Asteroid City. In Asteroid City Schwartzman plays Augie Steenbeck, the father of one son, Woodrow played by Jake Ryan, and three triplet girls. Having watched Schwartzman in a number of Anderson films, beginning with the 1998 movie Rushmore, playing a father in Asteroid City is something that stood out as "challenging" but "exciting" for the actor. The release of the film Asteroid City marks not only another project bringing Anderson and Schwartzman together, but a story and leading role that Anderson and co-writer Roman Coppola crafted for the actor specifically. When you think of a Wes Anderson film, likely the actor you associate with the filmmaker is his longtime collaborator Jason Schwartzman. (L to R) Writer/director Wes Anderson, actor Jason Schwartzman and actor Tom Hanks on the set of ASTEROID CITY, a Focus Features release.
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