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
I've been wanting to do a play for years.
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.
Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.