We spoke w/ 'Asteroid City's Scarlett Johansson and Jason Schwartzman about what it's really like working with Wes Anderson.
If there’s one thing you can expect from a Wes Anderson movie, it’s the A-list cast, as in his whimsical pictures The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, to name a couple.
COLLIDER: Obviously, I’m a fan of both of your works, but if someone has never seen anything that you’ve done — besides Asteroid City — what’s the thing you want them watching and why?JOHANSSON: Oh, how interesting! Oh, gosh. Maybe Under the Skin because I think it’s a great movie, and I’m obsessed with Jonathan Glazer outside of the work that we did together. I think it’s such a unique movie that I want as many people as possible to see it because it’s kind of a little hidden gem.
SCHWARTZMAN: I think it’s that as large as this cast is, and as many people as it took to make the movie, and how many people are involved, it’s surprising to see how much he prefers an intimate setting to actually start shooting the movie. He prefers to have just the actors, you know what I mean? He really makes that clear, and it’s really cool because then he never has to raise his voice, he’s just right there, I think that’s the thing.
JOHANSSON: I don’t think Wes knows exactly… My experience is he doesn’t actually know what he wants out of the performance. There’s a certain… you know, the dialogue is the dialogue, and so those are the kind of parameters, or if you have to hit this specific mark, which is normal. His may be a little more particular, but really, everything else is up for grabs, so your whole interpretation of what this means, how it’s colored, the nuance of it, the prose, whatever.
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