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 Jon Favreau
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Jon Favreau is inarguably proof of just how unpredictable a Hollywood career can be. Starting out as a comedic actor, he has quickly proved himself adept at not only dramatic acting, but writing and directing. After writing Swingers and both writing and directing Made, Favreau has finally made his greatest mark in Hollywood as the latter, directing films as diverse as the comedy Elf and the children’s adventure Zathura. Now he hopes to make his most idiosyncratic mark yet on film with the most unlikeliest career turn yet, directing the Hollywood film adaptation of Iron Man. When we first asked Jon to discuss how he was approached to direct Iron Man, he told us of how much his whole career has been just as much unexpected. “I honestly don’t know,” he replies, “I think there was maybe, in the back of my mind, some sense of a career path when I moved to Chicago and wanted to join up with Second City that I wanted to do comedic roles. And then, all of a sudden in Chicago, I got cast in Rudy and then leapfrogged doing everything I thought I’d spend years doing where I was in a supporting role in a dramatic movie. And then, a few years later, I made Swingers, which was sort of a Woody Allen-type personal film that I got to star in.” “I don’t know if there was a life plan to end up with Iron Man,” Favreau continues, “But it just that I love movies and I just sort of went with whatever opportunities or whatever doors open and didn’t force it when I felt things weren’t going the way I thought they should. So I just went with where the flow was going and ended up only picking projects that I was excited about and sometimes they flopped like Zathura or they hit like Elf. But all the time, I was doing stuff that I was proud of, so here I am, somehow.” Jon says his more simplistic, loose, and basic approach to directing he acquired from his early years on the comedy circuit may have played into his ease into the role. “There are movies where the director doesn’t need to know anything and the movie gets made in spite of them,” Jon claims, “And then, there’s movies where the director is the singular voice or the auteur and is controlling every aspect of every frame and then, somewhere in the middle lies everybody, who’s working right now. And everybody has a different style and a different approach. “But fact of the matter is now, it’s like being a president,” he adds, “You have a cabinet around you of people who are experts in their field, that if you have the right assembly of talent, that you listen to them and manage them right, you could make a great movie without having to have any experience or background in any of those areas.” He also claims that this democratic approach in working |
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