Zoe Kazan: “If you’re basing your whole sense of self-worth about when you get a callback, you’re going to be pretty unhappy”
When you do it all, it’s hard to find balance. Just ask Zoe Kazan, who wrote and starred in the recent indie Ruby Sparks.
“It’s been a lucky year or two,” said Chris Messina who is currently starring in ‘Ruby Sparks’, ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’, TV’s ‘Damages’ and ‘The Newsroom’
It would be difficult to go to the movies or turn on the TV right now and not see Chris Messina. He will be in six films by the end of the year, including Ruby Sparks and Celeste and Jesse Forever, and is currently on Damages, The Newsroom, and the upcoming The Mindy Project.
Interview: ‘Ruby Sparks’ Zoe Kazan Talks About Her Screenwriting Debut and Her Worst “Soul Sucking” Survival Job
Zoe also discusses working alongside boyfriend Paul Dano and acting the words she writes
Interview: Filmmakers Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris on ‘Ruby Sparks’ and How They Work with the Actors On-Set
They also chat about acting out scenes themselves before giving it to the actors.
Paul Dano on ‘Ruby Sparks’: “Once we were filming, it was all [my character] for me”
Actor Paul Dano found himself surrounded by familiar faces during the production of his latest film, Ruby Sparks. He co-stars with his real-life girlfriend Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the script, and the movie is directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the husband-and-wife team who directed Dano in his breakthrough role in Little Miss Sunshine.
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