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Reilly, Gregory Jacobs join forces once again for neo-noir film
By John Muller
THE DAILY TEXAN
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)een pla; AUSTIN, Texas John C. Reilly is one of the
st respected character actors in Hollywood and
|s worked hard to attain that reputation. In the
tfive years he has become a staple in the work
some of the industry’s most revered filmmakers,
jth parts ranging from the puppy-dog policeman
“Magnolia” to Roxie Hart’s sad-sack spouse in
hicago” and “Happy” Jack Mulraney in “Gangs
New York.”
1 So it is cause for celebration among many
ppporters to see him in a rare lead role in this
nth’s “Criminal.” And it doesn’t hurt that the
st-time director of the movie, Gregory Jacobs,
s long-standing ties to the celebrated director
ven Soderbergh.
“Criminal” is a convoluted story of scams
d salesmanship, with numerous layers of de-
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University of Texas’ The Daily Texan sat down
th Jacobs and Reilly before a recent Austin Film
ciety benefit screening to talk about the film:
Daily Texan: “Criminal” is adapted from
pcommg* Argentinean film “Nueve Reinas,” (“Nine
■leens”). What made you decide to remake it?
| Gregory Jacobs: Well, I saw “Nueve Reinas”
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i. a sennd \ f e it ijk e nobody I knew had seen it. But I
ior, said Ally liked it, and 1 felt there was a great opportu-
aeaking iy there to take that story and translate it to L.A.
datforms Id try to bring some of my own ideas to it. It had
; for Conrls great framework from which to work, and I
ipaigner: fcought it’d be fun to do.
mpaign s i DT: John, had you seen “Nueve Reinas” before?
dents to:* ^°* in C* Reilly: No, 1 hadn't. I read the script
tear whatA^ enmet ^ re 8 ant l Steven, and then 1 watched
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Richard (John C. Reilly, left) and Rodrigo (Diego Luna, right) find themselves stuck with each other when they come
across one of the most valuable pieces of currency in U.S. history in “Criminal."
would be to just bring my own
original take to this. So I waited
until after we were done to see it,
but it was really interesting to see
a South American version of
mean, it’s funny to flip-flop it that
way — but to see this movie ex
isting in a parallel universe to the
one we had just created.
DT: So why John for this part?
GJ: I obviously had been a big
fan of his, but I felt like 1 hadn’t
seen him play anything quite like
this. Really as a fan, I thought.
I’d love to see him do this part.
1 know what a great actor he is.
I know he can do anything. I've
seen him do a lot of different
things but nothing quite like this.
1 just thought it would be really
fun to see him do it.
DT: What were the hard parts
about making the film, and what
were the best parts?
JCR: The tough part was our
schedule, one of the miracles that
Greg pulled off. He pulled in a lot
of favors and we made this movie
for really probably half the bud
get that it should have cost.
The joy was being able to col
laborate with Greg and Diego
Luna, who I really hit it off with.
You know, as much as you hear people talk in the
press about how they love each other — that’s
probably true about 70 percent of the time. But in
this case, it was really true: 1 really have an affec
tion for Diego, and I think he’s a really talented
young actor. That made it really easy to get up ev
ery morning and want to go do this.
DT: Out of curiosity, what other actors do you
have that kind of relationship with?
JCR: Well, a lot of the people that 1 work with
more than once, you end up establishing a close
bond with. Leo DiCaprio and I have done three
movies together now, so I feel a real friendship
with him, you know?
DT: How is “The Aviator,” by the way?
JCR: I haven’t seen it yet, but everything I’ve
heard is really, really good. And a lot of other ac
tors from Paul Thomas Anderson’s films — he
kind of has his own little repertory company there,
so over the years I’ve made some great friends.
Honestly, 1 don’t really take a job if I don't re
spect the people I’m working with even before we
start working.
DT: You mentioned Paul Thomas Anderson
— that’s how I first became familiar with you, in
“Hard Eight.” Maybe I’m just trying to force con
nections here, but were you drawing any inspira
tion from “Hard Eight”?
GJ: No, I loved “Hard Eight,” and 1 think he’s
a brilliant filmmaker, but the inspirations are re
ally more from ‘70s films. . . But “Hard Eight” is
an amazing movie, and John was great in it.
DT: You were talking about the location shoot
ing earlier, which sometimes invites problems.
Did you have any difficulties during production?
GJ: There were a few days, but it was such
a fast shoot — most studio movies have 50, 60, 70,
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