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April 17, 2007

In the Land of Filmmakers

The Shorthorn gets the inside scoop on In the Land of Women

Story by: Anthony Williams

The Shorthorn Scene editor

The Shorthorn interviewed In the Land of Women’s Adam Brody along with other local media last week at the W Hotel in Dallas.

Question: At first glance, it looked like the movie was going to parallel “The O.C.” Did you ever see that or have any hesitation?

Adam Brody: No, not at all, because at the same time, I wasn’t even afraid of it being so. I just want to be in good things, and it was unquestionably a really great script from the first day. Whether it was nothing like Seth on “The O.C.” or exactly like it, I would’ve done it. And it worked out well that I felt it was the perfect amount away from him without being too far. It was comfortable, but like I said, either way it wouldn’t have been a concern.

Q: I know you’ve heard how you get typecast a lot, but not in independent roles like yours in Thank You for Smoking. Do you go for that more now?

Brody: I don’t actually feel I’ve been typecast, only because I haven’t done that much. Also, I think I’ve been doing a lot, but if I get typecast as the everyman, then that’s not really a problem with me more than being typecast as “Hitman No. 1.” I feel like between Jon Kasdan and Josh Schwartz, who did “The O.C.” I feel like a sort of version of the authors sometimes. If I can continue to embody the Jewish writer of Hollywood, I think I’ll have a lot of work.

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Q: Was it hard to come to the end of “The O.C.”?

Brody: Yes and no. Like anything you’ve spent the majority of time doing, like if you’re leaving college, it’s bittersweet and nostalgic. I was actually happy to not do it anymore, as I think most of the cast was. I think four years is a healthy time to tell one story. I think all of us, creatively if not emotionally, were ready to move on.

Q: How was it working with Olympia Dukakis?

Brody: She’s fantastic. She’s so funny in the movie. She’s a very talented comedian, which was really fun. There’s some fairly heavy stuff in the movie. She and I even have a couple semi-heavy moments. But really it was the light comedy we got to do that was always fun. It was a nice break from the drama.

The Shorthorn also spoke with Jonathan Kasdan, the director of In the Land of Women.

Q: What kind of input have you had over the trailers and promotions?

Jonathan Kasdan: They’ve included me. This is a tricky movie. It’s a real ensemble movie, with three or four stories. How you communicate all that material to an audience, it really almost feels impossible. So they found an element of it which I think is a real element but certainly not the entirety of it. One they felt like people might respond to. My hope is that while that thing is in the movie, people are surprised by everything else. It kind of takes people off guard like that.

Q: The movie is semiautobiographical. Are you going to stick with more of your own stories or move on to fiction?

JK: I would say more extreme autobiographical films. My family should run for the hills. It’s going to be so aggressively autobiographical, painfully so. It’s funny because I love big movies, I love Spider-Man. Those are the movies I like to see, and I like to make them. But the only thing that I’ve ever had any success with as a writer is very personal work. So I do feel like inevitably this will be the majority of my career.