You know what I love about Jason Schwartzman? The dude always seems to be clued in on what’s going to be cool next, yet part of his charm is that he doesn’t seem to think he’s cool. Which makes him, well… cool.
As comics-lovers know, there are few things cooler than “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.” And when I spoke with the former Max Fischer Tuesday evening, he had literally just wrapped.
“I finished last night,” Schwartzman told MTV News. “I’m back in Los Angeles—I just got off a plane two hours ago.”
During that time, Schwartzman found time to appear in this video and partake in some on-set hijinks—but when asked about the most surreal moment he filmed on the set alongside Michael Cera, Chris Evans and “Twilight” star Anna Kendrick, he said it was hard to choose.
“That is almost impossible, because every moment was surreal,” he laughed. “One moment that was quite surreal was myself on a wire—like a wire that’s attached to a pulley system—and I’m being pulled 30 feet above the ground, sword-fighting in mid-air. I was also jumping on trampolines and flipping, and doing all this stuff. That was the ‘If-my-friends-from-high-school-could-see-me-now’ moment.”
The experience was also an odd one for the sharp-tongued, affable actor because it was his first villain role.
“I’ve played people who have some villain-esque tendencies, but I’ve never played an-out-and-out enemy of the people before,” he explained of his character, Gideon Gordon Graves. “It was incredible. I loved it.”
“Basically, Michael Cera falls in love with a woman,” Schwartzman said of the plot of the 2010 flick. “And in order to go out with her and win her affection, he must defeat her seven ex-evil boyfriends in a series of battles. And I am the final boyfriend; I’m the mastermind. And I am quite lethal.”
So, one would assume he was sword-fighting Cera on those wires, right? Not so fast, cautioned Schwartzman.
“No, not Michael—somebody else,” he explained cryptically. “But I can’t say who.”
What do you think of Schwartzman’s casting as Gideon? Are you looking forward to his first villainous role?
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