Met Jason Schwartzman today, at the Venice Film Festival. I think at least 20 people completely surrounded him after the showing of Pavements (2024). He ws so incredibly kind with every single one of us, very soft-spoken, took the time for an autograp or a picture with everybody, and I mean, l EVERYBODY (security had to tell him numerous times to get put of the cinema because they had to show another movie). And even outside the cinema, he kept chattering with us and taling pictures and singing photos and programs of the Festival. He thanked us numerous times for coming to see him, seeing his movies, paying him compliments. He seemed almost as happy to see us as we were to see him. I got to tell him that one of my favourite movie characters of all time was Max Fischer, from Rushmore (his first movie ever). He was pleasantly surprised, a little endeared dare I say, thanked for that and I think he paid me a compliment as well but I kinda blacked out from the emotion. I just remember that at some point I said "Thank you for being you" and he said "Thank you for being you" and I still think I died on the spot and I am currently in heaven. It was such a nice moment, I wanted to share.
what’s a girl gotta do to get an obsessive stalker with the voice of an angel who lives in the catacombs under the theater I work at and murders people to further my singing career around here?
No more attractive, young, bright-eyed Odysseus. He's aged by two decades. He's got scars. He's been starved through most of his journey, and no amount of food and rest on Calypso's isle undoes that physical trauma. He's haggard and fully transformed by the end of Wisdom - physically and spirtually no longer the man he was 20 years ago.