just add irony, and stir I met Vince Vaughn when we went to Utah to do Clay Pigeons, a twisted murder mystery with Joaquin Phoenix, out this month. He is a fabulous person, a prince among men and Steve McQueen incarnate. By Janeane Garofalo.
Janeane: Okay, Vince, here are some Jane questions. What role has been the most difficult for you and why?
J: Without the tongue in your cheek.
J: Okay. Why do you think there are so many stories about actors coming to Hollywood with just $20 in their pockets?
J: That's cool. What aggravates you most in a director and co-stars?
J: There's nothing worse than being directed, I always say. When a movie didn't come out as well as you had hoped, does it bother you?
J: I actually never minded until it was a movie I really liked -- The Matchmaker. It bombed. And it took the joy of going to the movies away from me. But Vince, in Clay Pigeons you're funny as well as menacing. You should definitely do more comedies, because it's so rare when somebody is a dramatic actor, is as good-looking as you are and funny.
J: That's P-H-U-N. I heard that, motherphucker. I actually would rather do comedy. Sometimes, it causes me great anxiety to tackle straight drama. Like I have hives right now.
J: I'm convinced it's manifested from anxiety.
J: But I haven't seen you in months.
J: Really, because I can't even name 'em, and I don't use protection. I'm kidding! Completely kidding. I'm totally monogamous. Anyway, so I got hives. And I feel it's definitely physically manifested because I was walking Dew recently at about 2:30 in the morning --
J: Yes. I was walking him, and this girl came up to me and said, "Are you Janeane Garofalo?" And I said, "Yeah." She said, "Is that Dew, who I saw on the HBO special?" I said, "Yeah!" She said, "Look, I've got to tell you, I think you suck. You get away with this Gen X thing, but your stand-up has gotten worse over the years." I got home, and the hives were in gear, full-blown by 4 a.m.
J: Hey, she was a grad student! I should have asked her for some money for the Zovirax and the cortisone cream I need as a result of our chat. Now I have a twofold question for you. Has anything like that happened to you, and what's going on with your stress-related hives?
J: But that's why I'm doing it. I want the kids at the Starbucks to think I'm the Cadillac of performers.
J: And then go right to work.
J: Plus, it helps your work.
J: And you lose your looks. For one of your next movies, the remake of Psycho, were you surprised when they offered you the part of the mother? I know you wanted to play the shower, and they offered you the mother instead.
J: Okay. Now I'm going to pretend I'm a Jane reader who gets to ask Vince Vaughn a question: Speaking of the Black Panther Party and the trial of the Chicago Eight back in the day, what was your feeling when you saw poor Bobby Seale literally gagged and bound to his chair, sentenced to that fate by Judge Julius Hoffman?
J: 1968.
J: That was a prenatal question. I know how politically active you are. I was 4 at the time, so I can't answer it myself. But I know I would have been outraged!
J: And Frank Sinatra?
J: I guess. So after Return to Paradise, with you, Anne Heche and Joaquin Phoenix; and Clay Pigeons, with you, me and Joaquin; and Psycho, with you and Anne; do you have anything else coming up?
J: You mean like Woody Allen's later work, if that's what you're talking about?
J: Agh! Crimes and Misdemeanors is my favorite film!
J: Yeah. Well, you would. |
Janeane Garofalo is, of course, utterly amazing but not technologically oriented, so when we sent her the telephone tape recorder so she could conduct her interview, senior writer/editor Suzan Colón took a Polaroid of her own hands modeling the proper phone set up. |