- This one may have set a scooper record, as at presstime the scoops won’t stop coming in on this one…Lots of DVDFile readers out there, and rightfully so, as it’s one of the best on the web.
Anyway, with Almost Famous seeing a release today, DVDFile interviewed Jason Lee and again did a commendable job at putting together a really nice layout and Q&A. These guys are good. Here’s an excerpt from the article, where working with Kevin and some J&SBSB stuff is mentioned:
JL: Yeah, and Kevin Smith, too. And I’d love to work with Lawrence Kasdan again. And I’d like to start this kind of relationship with the Coen Brothers and possibly Paul Thomas Anderson.
DF: Going back to Kevin Smith, what can you say about your work on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?
JL: I play Banky from Chasing Amy and Brodie from Mallrats. All the characters come back, or at least a lot of them do, cause it’s the last of the New Jersey movies as everybody calls them. The Jersey Trilogy, whatever you want to call it. So I come back for a couple scenes as Brodie and a couple scenes as Banky. It was a trip playing Banky at first cause I had to find my groove again, but I’m wearing almost the exact same clothes as I wore in Chasing Amy. Exact hat, which I own, which I’m not selling on Ebay even though I’ve had millions of people ask me if I wanted to sell it.
Yeah, it was a trip going from Vanilla Sky to Banky. Bam, I put the hat on and suddenly it’s Banky, but it’s weird. I don’t know any of the crew and I’m trying to find this groove again and I finally found it and it was awesome. It was just like shooting with Kevin again 5 or 6 years ago on the set of Chasing Amy. I haven’t done my Brodie work yet, that’s going to be at the end of March in New Jersey, but that’s going to be cool. Will Ferrell is in it. He plays this character that is looking for Jay and Silent Bob and he’s just fucking amazing. He’s like a dumb, comic genius. In the movie he’s just this dumb guy but what he does as a person to make that happen is just genius. He’s just awesome.
DF: There were a lot of rumors circulating a while back when Miramax bought the rights to Fletch for Kevin Smith. There was a lot of talk that you were perhaps the first choice to play Fletch. Any truth to that? What’s going on with that?
JL: If Miramax allows me to play Fletch then Kevin will do it. But if not, then we’re going to wait.
DF: So, not only are you the first choice, it sounds like you’re the only choice.
JL: That came from Kevin.
DF: I think you’d be perfect for it.
JL: I’d love to do it. It’s the younger Fletch from Fletch Won. It’d be so much fun, my little tribute to Chevy Chase and redoing the sort of 80s Fletch thing.
DF: I really hope you get to do it, because I would love to see it.
JL: Yeah, me too!
You can read the entire interview, and we definitely recommend that ya do, right HERE.
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