Michael Cera, playing with his image

New still of Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Johnny Simmons, etc. in "Scott Pilgrim vs the World".

Inside Michael Cera's Jersey Shore Makeover:Michael Cera (Pizza Guido) with Nicole Snooki. "Putting his new look to good use, Cera bonds with Jersey Shore babes Snooki and Sammi". Source: www.people.com


"It’s a real game people end up playing with their image”, says Cera from Toronto, where he’s spending the holidays with his family. “That’s really not what’s important to me. It’s just not. And I don’t know how to play that game or understand why people do. It’s just not as fun to me as getting to work with people that you really like.”

For Youth in Revolt, opening January 8, Cera collaborated with director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) on a film that makes excellent use of Cera’s dry wit and puppy-dog eyes.Portia Doubleday and Michael Cera attending the AFI Festival Day 5, 2009.

Based on the cult novel by C. D. Payne, the film follows befuddled 16-year-old horndog Nick Twisp as he struggles to impress a Serge Gainsbourg–obsessed romantic named Sheeni (newcomer Portia Doubleday). She craves danger and urges Nick to be “bad, very bad.”So Cera, as Twisp, leaves behind his milquetoast Clark Kent persona and adopts a superbad alter ego: He becomes Francois Dillinger, a mustachioed Jean-Paul Belmondo–inspired lothario—“contemptuous of authority,” he announces, “irresistible to women”—who wears aviator sunglasses, a thin Lester-Molester mustache, and very, very tight pants. “The genius of Michael’s comedy is that he’s never reaching for a laugh,” says Arteta. “He’s always finding a laugh in something that feels truthful …. And Michael has a very playful relationship with the truth.” “You don’t have to get caught up in being yourself in front of all these people that really don’t know you,” says Cera. “The biggest adjustment in the past couple of years was being recognized, mostly because you lose a certain amount of control over your life. It’s scary. I guess one way to deal with it is to find a way to have fun with it.”He almost prefers to be confused with his roles; it provides yet another smoke screen. “People get caught up in movies and are unable to separate reality,” he says. “A hundred years later and people still don’t understand. And that’s a good thing!” Does it bug him when his ultrasensitive movie persona is parodied? Not at all. “People love being really mean,” he says cheerily. “It’s fun!” Source: nymag.com


In Youth in Revolt Michael Cera plays Nick Twisp, a nice young guy consumed by his raging hormones. He also plays Francois Dillinger, Nick’s alter ego and the driving force behind Nick’s deviance. In these two promos Cera shows off yet another side, the major asshole side.

In this Adult Swim mock interview, cameramen barge into Cera’s house unexpectedly interrupting Cera’s ‘game room’ time. Both videos are basically the same except for one very quick yet shocking moment, a cameo by Bob Weinstein.

Source: cinemablend.com


Late Show with David Letterman 01/04/2010
Monday, January 4

Michael Cera
(Youth in Revolt)
Jenna Elfman
(Accidentally on Purpose)
David Gray
(CD, "Draw the Line")