"GEEKED OUT" AND PICKED DE PALMA'S BRAIN ON A PLANE
Horror fan, director, and actor Jay Baruchel has been making the rounds to promote How To Train Your Dragon, in which he voices the main character (Baruchel can currently be seen on screens in She's Out Of My League, a film he doesn't even seem to be mentioning in interviews). Baruchel, who is from Montreal, told Film.com's Amanda Mae Meyncke that he would like "to be able to write and direct horror movies in Montreal for the rest of my life." Baruchel also mentioned that his "heroes" for directing horror are David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma ("I'm a huge Brian De Palma fan," he told Meyncke). In the video above, Baruchel tells Zap2it's Elizabeth Snead that if he could work with anyone, it would be either Cronenberg or De Palma. Baruchel then mentions a time when he ended up on a plane with De Palma and picked his brain...
I would absolutely kill for the opportunity to work with Brian De Palma once. Those are the guys that I really really love, and would do anything. And I geeked out with Brian De Palma one time. The poor guy had the displeasure of having to travel beside me on a plane from Toronto to Los Angeles once. So I had him captive for five hours, and I just talked his ear off. I never do that kind of stuff, and it's just rare that I get... you know, if I'm starstruck, then I don't have the balls to ask anyone. But him, it's just, his movies have meant so much to me for so long that I was like, "Screw it-- when else am I gonna have his ear for five hours straight?" And so I just like laid in to him about, well, I just asked him about every single one of his films, and how'd you do this shot, and all that. So that was a "pinch me" moment for me.
