USA-MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN PREMIERE Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner try to disconnect from technology

Record ID: 174290

  • Title: USA-MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN PREMIERE Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner try to disconnect from technology
  • Date: 1st October 2014
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 30, 2014) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** "MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN" FILM POSTER VARIOUS OF ADAM SANDLER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ADAM SANDLER SAYING: "It's good to get an email and tell you where to meet and not have to talk to someone, it's fun not talking to people. I like that a little bit. I wish my mother would email me on occasion but she still likes to talk. Yeah, it depends. If you're with you're kids and they're having a conversation with you and you keep looking down at the phone and checking the baseball scores that's not a good thing." VARIOUS OF JENNIFER GARNER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) JENNIFER GARNER SAYING: "It just isn't something that I'm interested in. As far as social media, you know, the last thing I want is to put stuff about me out there, it's so boring. But, it has made me more mindful of how much I have my phone in my hand and particularly when I'm with my kids and that And that I can kind of feel like I'm present but still be getting work done and I've been trying much more to isolate my phone time or email time and my kid time." JENNIFER GARNER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) JENNIFER GARNER SAYING: "You know, I learned a lot of the, um, the things like DTF or, I learned what LOL meant because I didn't know. I learned like, there are a lot of them, there are a lot that aren't very nice and so I learned that stuff." JENNIFER GARNER AND ANSEL ELGORT GREETING EACH OTHER VARIOUS OF ELENA KAMPOURIS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS OLIVIA CROCICCHIA SPEAKING TO REPORTERS VIDEOGRAPHERS SOUNDBITE) (English) THE FILM'S DIRECTOR, JASON REITMAN, SAYING: "Oh, I hardly have an effect on young people. I mean, look, I'm just trying to, I don't know. It showed adults and parents and children in their normal environment." SOUNDBITE) (English) JASON REITMAN SAYING: "I don't know, I think if there was an app that told me how many hours I spend looking at my phone it would probably be a little scary." DEAN NORRIS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS SOUNDBITE) (English) DEAN NORRIS SAYING: "Yeah, well the word virtual is an interesting word isn't it, you know. My wife was telling me some story where, somewhere, where the birth rate is declining significantly because so many men are just having all this virtual sex all the time instead of, you know, procreating, which I guess is sort of good news, bad news because lord knows we got enough people on the planet." JENNIFER GARNER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ANSEL ELGORT SPEAKING TO REPORTERS SOUNDBITE) (English) ROSEMARIE DEWITT SAYING: "I'm not, I mean, I go on the internet to look things up, I don't know how to do anything fancy with it. And I have an iPhone, you know, that I don't know how to do, like, I just upgraded it and now it's doing so many things, it's like freaking me out. You know, like I'm texting and all these words and options are popping up." ANSEL ELGORT SPEAKING TO REPORTERS WIDE SHOT OF RED CARPET
  • Embargoed: 16th October 2014 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA1OJPUV6SMJD8RGY56IOSP6IMM
  • Story Text: Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner, along with the cast of "Men, Women and Children" reflect on their own use of technology and social media.
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    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 30, 2014) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
    1. "MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN" FILM POSTER
    2. VARIOUS OF ADAM SANDLER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ADAM SANDLER SAYING:
    "It's good to get an email and tell you where to meet and not have to talk to someone, it's fun not talking to people. I like that a little bit. I wish my mother would email me on occasion but she still likes to talk. Yeah, it depends. If you're with you're kids and they're having a conversation with you and you keep looking down at the phone and checking the baseball scores that's not a good thing."
    4. VARIOUS OF JENNIFER GARNER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JENNIFER GARNER SAYING:
    "It just isn't something that I'm interested in. As far as social media, you know, the last thing I want is to put stuff about me out there, it's so boring. But, it has made me more mindful of how much I have my phone in my hand and particularly when I'm with my kids and that And that I can kind of feel like I'm present but still be getting work done and I've been trying much more to isolate my phone time or email time and my kid time."
    6. JENNIFER GARNER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JENNIFER GARNER SAYING:
    "You know, I learned a lot of the, um, the things like DTF or, I learned what LOL meant because I didn't know. I learned like, there are a lot of them, there are a lot that aren't very nice and so I learned that stuff."
    8. JENNIFER GARNER AND ANSEL ELGORT GREETING EACH OTHER
    9. VARIOUS OF ELENA KAMPOURIS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    10. OLIVIA CROCICCHIA SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    11. VIDEOGRAPHERS
    12. SOUNDBITE) (English) THE FILM'S DIRECTOR, JASON REITMAN, SAYING:
    "Oh, I hardly have an effect on young people. I mean, look, I'm just trying to, I don't know. It showed adults and parents and children in their normal environment."
    13. SOUNDBITE) (English) JASON REITMAN SAYING:
    "I don't know, I think if there was an app that told me how many hours I spend looking at my phone it would probably be a little scary."
    14. DEAN NORRIS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    15. SOUNDBITE) (English) DEAN NORRIS SAYING:
    "Yeah, well the word virtual is an interesting word isn't it, you know. My wife was telling me some story where, somewhere, where the birth rate is declining significantly because so many men are just having all this virtual sex all the time instead of, you know, procreating, which I guess is sort of good news, bad news because lord knows we got enough people on the planet."
    16. JENNIFER GARNER SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    17. ANSEL ELGORT SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    18. SOUNDBITE) (English) ROSEMARIE DEWITT SAYING:
    "I'm not, I mean, I go on the internet to look things up, I don't know how to do anything fancy with it. And I have an iPhone, you know, that I don't know how to do, like, I just upgraded it and now it's doing so many things, it's like freaking me out. You know, like I'm texting and all these words and options are popping up."
    19. ANSEL ELGORT SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
    20. WIDE SHOT OF RED CARPET
    (UNIDENTIFIED FILM LOCATION) (FILE) (PARAMOUNT PICTURES - MUST COURTESY FOR USE OF "MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN" TRAILER CLIP AND NO WIRELESS OR LIBRARY USE AND NOT FOR RESALE)
    21. "MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN" TRAILER CLIP
    STORY:
    Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner and the cast of "Men, Women and Children" talk about their personal relationships with social media and technology at the Los Angeles film premiere on Tuesday (September 30) evening.
    The film follows multiple members of a small Texas suburb and exposes their relationship with different forms of technology, from smartphones to the internet to video games. Each character demonstrates how social lives are shaped and changed by social media.
    Sandler says you just have to learn when to disconnect.
    "It's good to get an email and tell you where to meet and not have to talk to someone, it's fun not talking to people. I like that a little bit. I wish my mother would email me on occasion but she still likes to talk. Yeah, it depends. If you're with you're kids and they're having a conversation with you and you keep looking down at the phone and checking the baseball scores that's not a good thing," says Sandler.
    Garner says that while she already distances herself from social media, she has become more aware of how connected she really is to technology.
    "It just isn't something that I'm interested in. As far as social media, you know, the last thing I want is to put stuff about me out there, it's so boring. But, it has made me more mindful of how much I have my phone in my hand and particularly when I'm with my kids and that And that I can kind of feel like I'm present but still be getting work done and I've been trying much more to isolate my phone time or email time and my kid time," says Garner.
    Even director Jason Reitman has become self-conscious of how attached he is to his phone.
    "I don't know, I think if there was an app that told me how many hours I spend looking at my phone it would probably be a little scary," says the Reitman.
    The film features a large cast of younger actors including Ansel Elgort from recent young adult films "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Divergent" and Elena Kampouris, who previously worked with Reitman on "Labor Day."
    "Men, Women and Children" will have a limited release on Friday, October 3rd.
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