Adam Goldberg, he who charmed his way into our consciousness as Mike Newhouse in Dazed and Confused, has proven that he's leading man material in Julie Delpy's directorial debut, 2 Days in Paris. The (un) romantic comedy follows Jack (Goldberg) and Marion (Delpy), two years into their relationship, as they visit her family in Paris. Intensely neurotic, Goldberg has a tough time adapting to the entire-rabbit-eating ways of the French and is less than enthused to keep running into Marion's old boyfriends. Goldberg is the more-muscley and tattooed Woody Allen to Delpy's more French Diane Keaton. It's an honest and revealing look into how frustrating a relationship can be. I recently chatted with Mr. Goldberg about the making of the film, his music career and how awesome Hugh Grant was in Music and Lyrics.
Alexis Swerdloff: Coming straight from Déjà Vu, a big studio blockbuster, to filming a small independent film, 2 Days in Paris -- was that jarring at all?
Adam Goldberg: It was more physically than mentally crazy. I'm not good at traveling. Like today, I got in last night, and I'm completely disoriented right now. I'm just not a good traveling.
AS: Like your character in 2 Days in Paris?
AG: Yes, there is very little like the character that I am not. But yeah, I think if you sort of bounce back and forth between those two worlds anyway -- the big movie world and the small movie world -- one tends to acclimate to whatever situation they're in fairly fast. Going to Paris after that was more disorienting. I literally finished wrapping up Déjà Vu on a Friday night, got to Paris on Sunday and started working Monday morning. I was completely out of it. And also, this was more important to me, I needed to be completely there. Oftentimes you sort of get the script, and you say the lines and blah blah blah, but this film was a much more collaborative scenario, more involving than your average job.
AS: Most of the people in the film are French -- was it just you and a lot of French people?
AG More so the crew. Everyone's communicating in French. So I had to lay down the law several times and be like, 'I need to have somebody telling me what's going on before we're rolling,' because a couple of times we were rolling and I literally had no idea. The schedules are completely different -- you get there and about an hour later you're eating lunch. I mean literally. And I can't eat that early in the day -- at least not like big things of fish. And then you don't eat again for hours and hours, you know, and there seem to be endless different bank holidays. Once I kind of gave into it and I kind of relaxed a little bit it was better.
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