Michael Cera
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, most notably portraying a young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He is mostly known for his role as George Michael Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development and for his leading roles in the comedy films Superbad, Juno, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlistand Youth in Revolt. In 2010, he portrayed Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and played an...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 June 1988
CityBrampton, Canada
CountryCanada
If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.
I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.
I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.
I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.
I've been wanting to do a play for years.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.
Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.
I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.