VARIOUS: Jenna Fischer, Chris Messina and some of the supporting cast of "The Giant Mechanical Man" talk about the movie on the red carpet at the world premiere of the film at New York's Tribeca Film Festival
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VARIOUS: Jenna Fischer, Chris Messina and some of the supporting cast of "The Giant Mechanical Man" talk about the movie on the red carpet at the world premiere of the film at New York's Tribeca Film Festival
- Title: VARIOUS: Jenna Fischer, Chris Messina and some of the supporting cast of "The Giant Mechanical Man" talk about the movie on the red carpet at the world premiere of the film at New York's Tribeca Film Festival
- Date: 24th April 2012
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 23, 2012) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) VARIOUS OF MALIN AKERMAN TALKING TO THE PRESS ON THE RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) MALIN AKERMAN, ACTRESS WHO PLAYS JILL IN "THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN", SAYING: "She's trying to give her older sister advice, you know, trying to fix her life which is usually an older sister's position is just giving advice. But it was fun to play the younger, sort of annoying sister (LAUGHS)." VARIOUS OF TOPHER GRACE POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS ON THE RED CARPET PHOTOGRAPHER (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOPHER GRACE, ACTOR WHO PLAYS DOUG IN "THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN", SAYING: "I went and begged Lee and Jenna, who were both producers on it - please let me play the bad guy. I think I have a take on these weird, motivational speakers. And he's even, as motivational speakers go, he's a bad motivational speaker, which is really saying something." JENNA FISCHER TALKING TO A REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) JENNA FISCHER, ACTRESS WHO PLAYS JANICE IN "THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN", SAYING: "In fact now that the movie is premiering, and we won't have this project, I don't know what we're going to do. Luckily we just had a baby, so we'll work on that - that will be our next joint project."
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- Story Text: Members of the cast along with the director of "The Giant Mechanical Man" attended the world premier of the movie at the Tribeca Film festival on Monday (April 23).
Actress Jenna Fischer, who plays Janice, was accompanied by her husband Lee Kirk who wrote and directed the movie.
Fischer plays a woman in her 30s who is socially shy and learning to navigate adulthood. Kirk wrote the script specifically with Fischer in mind.
"It's pretty great to have the man who loves you write a role for you. I think that's like every actress' dream," said Fischer.
Chris Messina is Tim, the "Giant Mechanical Man" in the film's title. Tim is a street performer whose hours as a "living statue" don't pay the bills.
Tim and Janice end up landing seemingly dead-end jobs at the local zoo. Messina said he loved working with Fischer and Kirk and loved his character.
"I loved the writing and I related to the longing to kind of belong and fit in as a struggling actor. So I felt akin to him and always wanted to work with Jenna Fischer so I was really excited about that."
In the film, Malin Akerman plays Janice's overbearing younger sister Jill, who attempts to hook her up with an egotistical self-help guru, Doug, played by Topher Grace.
Akerman has two younger sisters and says that her character, Jill, behaves more like an older sister.
"She's trying to give her older sister advice, you know, trying to fix her life which is usually an older sister's position is just giving advice. But it was fun to play the younger, sort of annoying sister," laughed Akerman.
Topher Grace is convincing as the annoying Doug. He said he's always wanted to play a motivational speaker and had a lot of fun in the role.
"I went and begged Lee and Jenna, who were both producers on it - please let me play the bad guy. I think I have a take on these weird, motivational speakers," Grace told Reuters.
Fischer and Kirk worked on "The Giant Mechanical Man" for several years and they have a baby son. Fischer, who also plays receptionist Pam Beesley in the U.S. version of the television comedy series "The Office", says that once the show's season is over, she wants to spend more time with her son and she's certain she won't get bored.
"In fact now that the movie is premiering, and we won't have this project, I don't know what we're going to do. Luckily we just had a baby, so we'll work on that - that will be our next joint project," said Fischer.
"The Giant Mechanical Man" opens in New York theaters on April 27th. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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