![]() ![]() “Talia said, ‘You guys really need to think about that beat,’ ” Wolff explains. The mystery comes to a head when Fred finally unleashes a cryptic, stream-of-consciousness rant-a quasi-confessional that costar Talia Shire (also of the Coppola dynasty) was keen to highlight. There’s a lot of mystery to my character.” “I don’t know if he’s sexually attracted to him, but he’s definitely in love with him, and there’s some kind of obsession. The movie, which mirrors high school classics like Dazed and Confused, is based on a book of short stories by James Franco, who costars along with Emma Roberts and newcomer Jack Kilmer (son of Val).įred, for instance, has a complex core beneath his transparent veneer of rebellion, much of which is tied to his ambiguous bromance with his best friend, Teddy (Kilmer). Instead, the budding scene-stealer-who greatly bolstered last year’s Tina Fey comedy, Admission, and also appears in this summer’s The Fault in Our Stars-connected to the deftly explored adolescent tedium and nuance of Palo Alto. He needs everyone to look at him.”Ī Nickelodeon alum whose big break was the network’s The Naked Brothers Band (a musical series produced by the 19-year-old multitalent’s mom and named for the group he co-headlined with his brother, Alex), Wolff can relate to Fred’s hunger for the spotlight, but not his douchebaggery. “He grew up only getting attention for negative things, so that’s the only way he knows how to get noticed. “He’s that guy who needs an insane amount of attention,” Wolff says. Fred wouldn’t be sitting at a table he’d be standing on it, drunk and screaming. This is all a marked departure from what Wolff brings to Fred, the perpetually wired, hard-partying, chauvinistic teenage antihero of Palo Alto, the debut film from writer-director Gia Coppola (granddaughter of Francis, niece of Sofia). “I get too.” he says, shaking his hands in a jittery motion. He’s seated next to a soup-bowl–sized mug of coffee, but it isn’t his. To get to him, I have to scurry past a line of customers that stretches out the door, before spotting the unassuming, lanky, dark-haired actor in the back. ![]() On a hectic Wednesday afternoon, Nat Wolff is just another New Yorker packed into the Grey Dog café near Union Square. Shirt, suit, and tie all by Tommy Hilfiger. It’s like relenting, The movie beat me.Photography by JUCO. Because if you go to tissues it’s like giving up. What’s your crying-at-the-movies style-reach for the tissues and wail, or quietly weep into your sleeves? Like Cuckoo’s Nest and The Graduate and Taxi Driver. ![]() When I was younger, I used to sneak with my brother and watch all these great rated-R movies from the ‘70s that we weren’t allowed to watch. When he gets turned into a vegetable, and then-I mean, it makes me choke up when I think about it now-the big guy grabs the thing that he was trying to lift earlier, and opens up the window with it? That totally got me. ** **It was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I mean, everyone in the screening I saw was sobbing-like _crying _crying, you know? Like, needing tissues crying. But usually I’m not sobbing like I was in The Fault In Our Stars. Like, I teared up when Brad Pitt saved the lead guy in 12 Years a Slave. Usually if I do cry at a movie, I’ll tear up. ** **As I’ve gotten older, I have gotten worse about that-I cry at way more movies than I used to. But still, there had to be a reality to it, or it wouldn’t have been funny, or it would have seemed tasteless. I wanted to do him justice, you know? You’re so upset watching the movie that when I come on screen, hopefully, my scenes are kind of funny. I met with a real guy that was blind who had gotten dumped by his girlfriend while he was going blind at 18. And that’s what’s great about Josh Boone, and great about John Green, none of his characters are like that. The hard part was making sure it didn’t turn into shticky best friend. I mean, it’s two horrible things in a row. But the hard part is, I had to deal with the reality of this is a real kid who’s going blind, and who gets dumped by his girlfriend. ** **That was one of the hardest parts I’ve ever played because it was balancing the reality of it with the fact that, yeah, this movie is really upsetting and needs some comedy. At least Isaac gives us some much-needed comic relief. ![]()
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