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 John C. Reilly
Interview By: Michael Dance While no one may have expected John C. Reilly to improbably turn into a household name comedy star, anyone who saw his breakthrough role in 1997's Boogie Nights knew he could handle it. Known mostly for dramas and "prestige" movies like The Hours and Chicago - the latter nabbed him an Oscar nomination - he showed off a different side of himself in the 2006 summer hit Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Sure, he was still the lovably pudgy best friend, but matching wits with star Will Ferrell earned him the lead role in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. The film, a spoof of musical biopics like Ray and Walk the Line, comes out of the Judd Apatow factory; Apatow produced Talladega and this summer's Superbad, directed Knocked Up, and co-wrote the Walk Hard script. "The secret to Judd’s success, and the reason that actors as well as audiences really like him, is that he’s so honest," Reilly says. "He decided when he got the chance to make his own films – because he’d been working for a long time as a writer behind the scenes for Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler – when he finally got the chance to tell his stories, he made the bold choice of telling the truth. ‘I don’t care if it’s a taboo subject, I don’t care if it makes me look stupid,’ he just laid it all on the line, from 40-Year-Old Virgin to Knocked Up to all the movies he produced and co-wrote as well. He tells the truth, and he tells it in a really frank way, and he lets the actors improvise in a really truthful way because it’s just coming off of the top of their heads. And in today, with the media being so carefully controlled and vetted by lawyers and designed carefully not to offend, it turns out being honest is a really radical thing to do." Reilly played the fictional music legend Dewey Cox in the film, an amalgamation of Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, and just about every other real music legend of the past fifty years. The film features almost a dozen songs that are actually funny and good, the result of plenty of collaboration. The title tune was just nominated for a Golden Globe award, and was credited to four different writers, including Reilly. "That one, Marshall Crenshaw wrote the song," Reilly says, "but it was based on some lyrics that Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow had written in the script, and then I also did a whole improvised thing in the middle of it where I’m talking about it and ruminating on my life, and I changed a couple of the lyrics, so in that case all four of us became the credited songwriters." Each song seems to have come about in a different way. "I did a little bit of writing on almost every song, you |
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