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A couple of unusual interviews have hit the web today.

The is first from our friends at FilmSchoolRejects, who talked to director Jason Reitman, not about his new movie Up in the Air, but instead quizzed the filmmaker on the pie chart he keeps of all the questions asked while on his press tour. Rejects Managing Editor Dr. Cole  Abaius wrote the following: “Instead of asking the usual, boring questions that have clearly been retread as much as 83 times, I decided to take the one word or two word codes for each entry and base my questions off of those. Even though he’s a talented director, and I’m a complete moron, Reitman was magnanimous enough to play along.”

The second of which was conducted by MoviesOnline.ca, with Fantastic Mr. Fox star Jason Schwartzman pretending to be director Wes Anderson, in a movie website first — an interview which was conducted entirely in stop-motion animation. The great thing about this interview is they don’t even talk about Fantastic Mr. Fox… at all.

I love both of these interviews because they are both funny in their own way, the participants seem to be willing (even if they didn’t know entirely what they were getting themselves into), and both go uncomfortably awry near the end. Check out both interviews, embedded after the jump.

Jason Reitman Interview:

Stop Motion Interview with Jason Schwartzman pretending to be Wes Anderson:

  • inteliboy
    these are brilliant!!
  • MonsterKilledThePilot
    Great interviews. It amazes me how quick Reitman is when responding to those questions. And kudos to Cole for coming up with them.
  • CRASHkennedy
    yeah, i liked reitman this much before video:

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  • gladidid
    the title alone confused me enough to come in here and check it out
  • There's a brief mention at the end when Bertram the eagle mistakes Bill Murray's badger character in Fantastic Mr. Fox for a groundhog. But that's as close as it ever gets.

    Thanks for spreading the love!
  • MickJ
    Good stuff. Nice to hear Reitman is a jazz fan as well.
  • Aww.. thanks for the link, Pete. Damn, that Reitman is a good sport. We're glad that he was game for some silliness. Now.. as for us ever interviewing him again... I have my doubts. :)
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