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
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.
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.
There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.
Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.
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.
Acting is such a weird job.
The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.