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ten. It was a legendary performance. Then, when I was in middle school, I was more into soccer. I got cast in my first play freshmen year of high school, and I had to tell the soc- cer coach that I wanted to drop out and be- come a drama kid.
Shakespeare and comic books—they’re pretty different. Do you look for that kind of diversity in your roles? I do. It’s because I like all kinds of films. I’m working with Pacino, and I love old movies like Dog Day Afternoon, but I’m also a huge Lord of the Rings geek. I enjoy moving from one role to the next and satisfying different kinds of curiosities.
For these projects, you’ve worked with some big names: Al Pacino and Michel Gondry. What was it like working with them? Al Pacino is a real gentleman—gener- ous and gracious. He’s really grounded in be- ing an actor and loves working on scenes. But, on stage, he’s like an untrained ani- mal—you never know what he’s going to do. I love that, because I also love being sponta- neous and in the moment; it gives the audi- ence a unique experience. Michel, on the other hand, is hilarious. You’d know you did a good take when you’d hear him say ‘Awesome!’ from behind the camera in his little French accent with his high-pitched voice. He’s such an indie director that, even though we had a one-hundred-twenty-mil- lion-dollar budget for the movie, he always wanted to grab the camera and try to film it himself with a flashlight.
You were also in Revolutionary Road. Did you know that David Yates lived in Westchester when he wrote that book? Yes, and it was very weird when we were filming it. Apart from the fifties aspect of it, it spoke to my suburban upbringing. There were little ele- ments of it that I really related to.
// Marisa LaScala
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A game company in Tarrytown has fun with nonsense words.
If you hear your family giggling about wombatosis, waxaltatation, and ropogo, you don’t have to worry that you’re not keeping up with the next genera- tion of texting slang—they’re probably just playing Yamodo, a game that comes straight from Tarrytown.
The basic form of the game is simple: You get a paper with a made-up word, the start of
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