AVC: John Hughes films perpetuated a lot of high-school myths. Both of you were acting in high school, and neither of you had a traditional high-school experience, with tutoring and home-schooling. Do you feel like you missed anything when you play these sorts of roles?
MC: Oh no, most of my high-school life was regular, except from 10th grade on.
KD: The only trouble I had, which was obvious, was I didn't know how to open the locker. That was kind of embarrassing.
MC: You just pull it open.
KD: I know.
AVC: Was it a combination lock?
KD: There was a combination, and then you have to push and go up or something. Well, I never had a locker, so the crewmembers were laughing.
MC: I remember that being scary in high school, having to figure that out, and you have such little time.
KD: I think I ruined a take too. I was like "Props! I can't open the locker!" They were like, "Just push the thing."
AVC: How much rehearsal did you do before filming?
KD: A week?
MC: Yeah, just went to some of the sets, blocked it out. We actually did the blocking so that when it came time to shoot, we didn't have to think about that.
AVC: On location?
MC: Yeah, a week before we started shooting, we went with Pete, blocked it out and rehearsed. It was the first time I'd ever done that.
KD: I don't know why more people don't do that.
MC: Yeah, it was very helpful, and it saved time. We had a very short amount of time.
KD: The DP [director of photography] was there with his camcorder so you could just get there and be able to shoot, no blocking.
AVC: Have you generally done a lot of rehearsal for other projects?
MC: It depends on the director.
KD: Everything's different.
AVC: Do you like to have more rehearsal time?
KD: That depends too.
MC: It's never bad. It's not detrimental if you don't rehearse. It's hard to say. I know with Superbad, we all just hung out, and that helped. We were all friends by the time we started shooting. I guess that could be considered rehearsing, because we're just hanging out in the movie.
KD: There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death. Remember how awkward it was? The only really awkward thing was when we were trying to rehearse our last scene, our love scene.
MC: Well, what can you do? We'll figure it out when you get there.
KD: Yeah, it was too much, and then my long monologue, quoting the song, it was painful. But Pete is really an intuitive person. He was like, "Let's just stop."
AVC: It probably helped that the love scene is off-camera.
MC: Definitely.
KD: Yeah, [it's] sort of unclear what happened. It was provocative—it's a head lovemaking, it's a mind… Whoa, I'm tired. [Laughs.] It's an intelligent love scene. A thinking-man's love scene.
AVC: Michael, last night at the screening, someone asked you how you developed Nick's character, and you said that it was just an extension of George-Michael Bluth. Is that on your mind at all, that you're perpetuating George-Michael?
MC: No, I don't think about it.
KD: You know what my theory is? Because people say that about me too. It's because you look the same in every movie, because you're you, and I do too. If you grew a 25-foot-long beard and dyed your hair, maybe people wouldn't say that. I think it's just because you look like yourself, but the characters are totally different. I've seen basically everything Michael's been in, and you're totally different in everything. I think people just see the face and go, "He's the same in everything!" Yeah, he is, because he's Michael Cera.
KD: Maybe we can both wear wigs in the next one.
AVC: Speaking of Arrested Development, your IMDB page says you're "rumored" to be in the film version coming out next year. Though you denied it last night.
MC: I know. It's still hypothetical. I don't know who governs that website.
KD: Not anyone who knows you. It's like Wikipedia—it's so creepy. Anyone could add anything.
MC: I've added stuff on there.
KD: I've tried to get stuff taken off.
AVC: Kat, on your IMDB page, somebody posted that you look like a female Michael Phelps, and someone else posted that you look like Hilary Duff. That's quite a spectrum.
KD: Yeah, I saw that.
MC: You get that a lot, right?
KD: I get Michael Phelps every day. I don't know, man. If they think I look like I could win eight gold medals, then great.
MC: I'm sure that's how they meant it: eight gold acting medals.
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