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 Jason Ritter
Interview By: Rebecca Ford
Jason Ritter stars opposite his long-time girlfriend, Marianna Palka, in the film Good Dick. Marianna wrote, directed and produced the film in which Jason plays a video store clerk trying to get the attention of Marianna’s character. Jason is of course the son of John Ritter, the comedian and actor from Threes Company, 8 Simple Rules, and Bad Santa. Ritter is probably best known for his role in The Class and his current role as Jeb Bush in W. But Good Dick took Sundance by storm, with its frank conversation on sex and its genuine story in the face of Hollywood fluff. Jason explains that the title has been a starting point for a deep conversation on a man’s role in a relationship with a woman. “One of the things we’ve been doing is going around and for our website asking people what it mean to them and I got this amazing half an hour conversation between this man and this woman,” Jason says. “But she started to disagree with him and they got into this amazing conversation and for every man and every woman is different, so it’s going to be different for every person.” “So the idea that as men we have this ability to do this thing to women across the land is not true. It’s different for every single person,” he continues. “So part of it was this character Marianna’s character doesn’t need that, what that idea is, in fact would never let that happen. So in order to get in and love her at all, and make her feel worthy of being love and sort of satisfied. Marianna’s character suffers from a abusive past, and Jason’s characters has to work to overcome that. “It takes patience and not just knocking down walls, let’s take a brick away at a time,” he says. Jason’s character is molded after Eros, the archetype lover, who doesn’t make it into many modern-day films. “So the whole idea is that in this movie my character has to work so hard and the idea that anybody would work that hard just to get to know you, maybe has been really powerful for certain people,” explains Jason. Even his character’s friends are as good-hearted as he is, a rarity in a film, says Jason. “Because a lot of times you’ll have the nice guy in the movie and his best friend will be the pig’” says Jason. “But I always go, ‘why is that guy friends with that guy? They have nothing in common.’” “I don’t understand,” he continues. “I’ve hung out with guys like that and they’ll say something and I’ll think, ‘alright so we’re never going to be best friends but I’ll hang out with you for the night.’ But in movies that’s their best friend. That’s the only person they hang out with and that doesn’t make sense to me. It was nice in this movie that they’re all in the same realm ... |
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