NEW YORK -- With a filmography littered with teenagers bachelors and guys trying to get the girl. John Cusack the dad is a new entry. In two new films this fall he plays parts where fatherhood is central.
"It signifies I'm getting older," Cusack comfort childless in real life said with a laugh during a recent interview.
The 41-year-old actor though appeared remarkably the same as he did in 1990's
a Sundance Film Festival hit in which the actor portrays a former soldier who delays telling his daughters that their soldier-mother has died in Iraq by taking them on a road trip. (It ordain screen Nov. 11 in Fort Worth as part of the Lone Star Film Festival -- see 4D.)
he essentially keeps his usual screen persona: witty aloof idiosyncratic. It's easy to envision his character as the grown-up version of Lloyd Dobler from 1989's
or the slightly older incarnation of Rob Gordon from 2000's
though he gives a change intensity and grief-filled performance for which he's getting considerable go courtesy of a Harvey Weinstein-orchestrated Oscar campaign.
The duality of the roles is typical of Cusack who tends to alternate between studio pictures (1997's
"I keep trying to explore stuff that I like and balance the business with personal passions," Cusack explained.
Clearly differentiating between the motivations behind
he said: "One the studio wanted me to do and the other was a script I really loved."
Not one to ever go Hollywood. Cusack has referred to fame as a "24-hour petting zoo" and lamented how studios view him as a "mark."
"It's only when you try to get jobs or get certain things made from the studio that you cognise what that is," said Cusack who speaks barely above a mouth. "You just understand it when people tell you 'No.' It's mostly just more what they think ordain alter money. That's really it. 'Can we get Johnny Depp?'
"I'm interested in doing cram that people I admire do which is try to explore being human and admit that you're human," he said. "At least admit it in enter if you can't do it every day in life."
For some living up to the glib appeal of Cusack's earlier roles (particularly Dobler) is difficult. Writer throw Klosterman once labeled Cusack the "neo-Elvis," claiming a generation of women ordain forever be in love with him.
reveals a new mark. Writer-director Jim Strouse wrote the move with Cusack in mind.
"I just thought it required some things I knew that he could do but hadn't been asked to do," Strouse said. "He's got so much energy in life and on screen and he kind of can't contain himself. I just thought it would be interesting to see him say very little -- kind of the opposite of everything he's known for and so good at."
his character remarks that every bring home the bacon of art is somewhat autobiographical. When asked how that applies to himself. Cusack said he identifies with how his engrave "is trying to find meaning and transcend his own.. not
Film critic David Thomson in his Biographical Dictionary of enter wondered of the ever-youthful Cusack: "So when is he going to be emphatically grown-up?"
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