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Even though Charlyne Yi denies that she and Michael Cera were ever a couple, he tells me otherwise. Getting to the bottom of the “did they or didn’t they?” drama leaves the actress acting awkward through a Paper Heart event during which we are told no Michael Cera questions — even though he stars in the romantic comedy.
“Everyone says you and Michael were dating,” a reporter begins. Read more »
It seems the joke’s on us, and Charlyne Yi, who’s famous for her role in Knocked Up, got the last laugh. Fans of Yi and Superbad star Michael Cera were distraught after a report came out on the rumored “breakup” of the Paper Heart co-stars, who were said to be dating for the past three years. Read more »
Christian Bale probably didn’t mean to inspire other actors by way of his angry rant on the set of Terminator: Salvation, but it seems a few jokesters have taken his lead and run with it.
It doesn’t always have to be scary when celebrities "Bale Out" on set; sometimes it ends up being pretty hilarious – especially when Michael Cera is involved.
While we’re pretty sure this recent video of the Juno star having a diva moment on the set of his newest movie, Youth in Revolt, is just another way to make his fans laugh, Michael is pretty convincing as an angry, sensitive actor.
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Michael Cera is wearing a red backpack slung over his shoulder when he strides into the room at Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto during interviews for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, which is in theaters now.
The lanky 20-year-old actor is clearly at home in the lovable nerd characters he plays. He blushes as if he can’t believe his ears when I tell him my editor has a crush on him. Does he consider himself a heartthrob?
“Yes,” he sarcastically stammers. “I don’t feel that way – no, I don’t.”
Kat Dennings, his costar in the romantic comedy, feels otherwise.
“I’ve seen girls fawn over you,” she says. “It’s true. You don’t look. Sometimes he walks somewhere and literally a group of girls will stop what they’re doing and be like [stares/makes face of awe] ‘ahhh.’ They’ll look after you longingly, but it doesn’t matter.”
He self-deprecates, “Movie fans – movie heads.”
Kat playfully adds, “Who want to smooch you.”
The legion of ladies who swoon over Michael will have to fend off his girlfriend Charlene. The couple met through mutual friends — “which is a good way to meet someone,” he says — and spend time together by “taking long walks, eating and hanging out.” Why are they perfect together? “We just like each other,” he tells me.
Does he find that their personalities rub off on each other?
“If I’m around people for a long time, I start to laugh like them,” he says.
Heheheh. In Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, his character Nick gets dumped. In real life, Michael can relate.
“Yeah, I’ve been broken up with at some point. I think everyone has at some point – otherwise there’s something going on. But I’ve had it for sure, definitely.”
Unlike his character, though, he didn’t give a breakup CD as a parting gift.
Now that teen pregnancy has become a hot topic with Bristol Palin and Jamie Lynn Spears, some have claimed that Juno glamorized the concept. “No, I think it’s more about the family,” he says. Although the time seems right for Juno 2, he won’t go there.
“I think the story’s been told,” Michael tells me. “I don’t know what the sequel would be like. It might be a little pretentious. Sequels always feel … there’s very few good sequels. Back To The Future 2 is really great, Austin Powers sequel is good, The Spy Who Shagged Me. I don’t think Juno needs a sequel. I think it’s nice the way it is. I think it’s a nice story that has been told.”
Coping with fame certainly hasn’t been easy for Michael. “People may feel like they know me, but only people in my life know me. They may know things that I like or things that I do, but people don’t know me. People don’t know me unless they know me.”
When asked what he hopes to achieve in his career, he shuts down.
“I just think about what I want to be doing with my life – not my career.”
And, what would he like to do with his life?
“I think that’s pretty personal.”
When it all gets to be too much, Michael heads home to Brampton, Ontario. “I like to just stay at home and be with my family.” Ah, normalcy.
Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist is in theaters now.
The nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards were announced last night and, as can usually be expected from the tongue-in-cheek ceremony, you won’t find much overlap with the Oscars.
Last summer’s surprise hit comedy, Superbad, which was somehow overlooked by Academy voters in March, leads the class of 2008 with five total nominations, including Best Movie and Best Comedic Performance for its star Jonah Hill. Co-stars Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse join Jonah as nominees in the Breakthrough Performance category.
Additionally, Cera is nominated in the Best Male Performance category for his role in Juno. He’s joined in that category by Knocked Up’s Seth Rogen, the co-writer on Superbad.
And while this may be the only chance for National Treasure: Book of Secrets to score a nationally televised award, the MTV Movie Awards will allow Javier Bardem the opportunity to add yet another trophy to his case for his role as the creepy killer in No Country for Old Men.
For the complete list of nominees, go to MTV.com
And to see whether Superbad is Supervictorious, watch the MTV Movie Awards when they air on June 1.
Ellen Page certainly doesn’t mind stirring up controversy.
The Nova Scotia-born actress, 20, plays the pregnant teenage star of Juno, which is fast becoming a lightning rod for both sides of the pro-choice/pro-life debate.
Wearing a green “UAB Blaze” T-shirt topped by a black jean vest, she sips Voss water and plays with her coke-bottle glasses when she meets OK! at NYC’s Union Square Hotel. The dramedy, in theaters Dec. 5, also stars Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera and Allison Janney.
“People get so hot and heavy about everything,” she explains to OK!. “But whatevs. I’m completely pro-choice. I feel like older white men with money should definitely not be able to decide what happens to a woman’s uterus unless we want to go back to clothes hangers.”
Jennifer, who is mom to 2-year-old girl Violet with hubby Ben Affleck, gave her some advice about playing a pregnant character believeably. “She was extremely helpful in regards to when I would get stuck with ‘how far should the body language go?’ ”
The actress, who started her career in Canadian TV at age 10, has worked steadily in film and TV, but she is best known for Hard Candy, the 2006 thriller in which she gets gory “revenge” on a pedophile. Although the film was not widely seen in America due to its unsettling content, it was a huge success in other parts of the world.
“I was backpacking in Eastern Europe, and I’d get recognized in every hostel," Ellen recalls to OK!. "It was the weirdest experience. One Irish girl freaked out. She was screaming. It was weird for me, because I’m dirty, I’m in Serbia, and I’m playing the guitar. This Irish girl is baffled at how I’d be there, and I’m baffled at how she’s doing that. It’s very bizarre.”
Following that controversial role, the young star says that some men are afraid of her, but she doesn’t care. “I’m like ‘you know what? You can get over it.’ There are how many shows on TV that could be called Naked Women in the Dumpster Part 7 — Who Did it? Who Raped Her, and Cut Her and Threw Her in the Dumpster? Guys can handle one movie.”
Like her character in Hard Candy, her pregnant teenager in Juno could be considered feminist. “I find it funny that whenever a young woman has remote strength," she explains, "she’s considered abrupt because she speaks her mind.”
And after already winning awards at both the Hollywood Film Festival and last week’s Gotham Awards, the Oscar buzz around Ellen is growing quickly. However, just like everything else, she appears to be taking it in stride. “I try not to think about it. I’ve seen For Your Consideration,” she jokes, referring to the Christopher Guest-directed spoof about a small film that garners unmerited award attention.
As for the actresses whose work she admires, Ellen mentions Laura Linney and Catherine Keener, saying, “I don’t feel like you can be successful and talented without being a pretty awesome person. Laura came up to me after the Gotham Awards, and I was just like, ‘Oh my God, you’re flawless.’”
She calls working with Catherine in the upcoming drama An American Crime one of the best experiences she’s ever had. “She’s one of the most genuine, down-to-earth, solid human beings I’ve ever met. I was extremely inspired by the way she handles herself in all situations at all moments of being. She’s just one of those people — you’re like, ‘Wow, thanks for existing.’ It makes me feel better about being alive. She’s egoless.”
Ellen remains grounded by keeping up with her hometown pals.
“I feel like things will change as much as you let them to change. I can go to Nova Scotia and be in the woods with my friends and dogs, and be like, ‘Oh wow, last week I was in L.A. wearing Miu Miu and high heels, isn’t that funny?” That’s so what I am, and this is what I do, and I want to make sure that there’s a balance.”
As for becoming a mother herself one day?
“I’m not even 21 yet, so I could change my mind obviously, but yeah, would I be stoked to have a little rugrat to take camping and climb trees with? Hells yeah. But I’m also not ready to listen to it cry and want the toy at Wal-Mart. I’m going to be like ‘consumerism – bad!’ Freak out on my child. I don’t know if I’m balanced and selfless enough yet to be selfless to a little munchkin. I’m definitely into someday being able to have someone to shift my attention. I think it would be a cool process.”
By Valerie Nome
