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Michael Cera Gains Back A Few Rep Points

And Gets Another Few for Style / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | February 9, 2009 | Comments (34)

Michael Cera has been getting beat up a little in these parts, mostly because he’s only 21 and already slowly turning into a caricature of himself. He’s pigeonholed himself into cute, stuttery, awkward roles, and there are plenty of us terrified he’s going to ruin Youth in Revolt. And then there’s the possibility he’s actually holding out on the Arrested Development movie, but so far, it’s hard to make any sense of it (and I read a couple of weeks ago that Jeffrey Tambor would, basically, spank his ass into signing on).

Anyway, Cera — who has had a few viral video hits in the past — has taken on the Christian Bale flip-out, and while I wanted very badly to write it off … well, it’s pretty fucking entertaining. Here he is, on the set of — appropriately enough — Youth in Revolt:









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Comments

I call shenanigans, this seems too scripted.

Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at February 9, 2009 5:38 PM

I think this is a we...

** hold on a sec, my trainer needs me to do a few another set **

Now where was I? Oh, this is a week imitation of Bale's ti...

** Fuck. More sqauts, man? I'm in the middle of a goddamn post here!. Fine, rack'em **

Like I was saying, this isn't all that orig...

** No, Bruce, let me finish!!!! **

Fucking amateurs. Anyway, I didn't think it was all that.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at February 9, 2009 5:40 PM

maybe it's cuz i'm watching this surreptitiously at work on the lowest possible volume above mute, but all i got was a ... [m'kay] from that.

Michael Cera is a cutie patootie, tho!

Posted by: Stella at February 9, 2009 5:42 PM

I think you missed the point Agente Provocatrice. ;)

Posted by: Lolita at February 9, 2009 5:43 PM

I just really can't get a kick out of anything that I know while inevitably be a gag in the next Movie Movie.

Posted by: branded at February 9, 2009 5:50 PM

He's pigeonholed himself into cute, stuttery, awkward roles,

And a cute, stuttery, akward tirade (real or not) is not going to change that.

Posted by: admin at February 9, 2009 5:50 PM

*will (not while) It hasn't been my day.

Posted by: branded at February 9, 2009 5:51 PM

I just really can't get a kick out of anything that I know while inevitably be a gag in the next Movie Movie.

Oh god. Oh god you're right. Oh god, unclean. Unclean.

Posted by: twig at February 9, 2009 6:08 PM

Pretty funny but all in all is not much different then the fake audition he did for Knocked Up. But it made me laugh a little so I can't complain. I am starting to wonder if Michael Cara can deliver lines without stuttering.

Still his episode of Drunk History is awesome. As long as he doesn't screw over the AD movie then I've got no problems with the guy.

Posted by: the other kafka at February 9, 2009 6:10 PM

This HAS to be a parody of the Bale thing.

Posted by: Shaun at February 9, 2009 6:14 PM

Eh. I prefer him in "Impossible is the Opposite of Possible."

Posted by: Sabrina at February 9, 2009 6:20 PM

Should I read Youth in Revolt before the movie comes out? You people know me by now, you know what me likey.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 9, 2009 6:24 PM

I'm just hoping that he won't fuck up the Scott Pilgrim movie.

Posted by: gatesong at February 9, 2009 6:38 PM

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenius!

That was fucking brilliant!

Posted by: George at February 9, 2009 6:43 PM

Optimus, read it. It's fucking hysterical. And you'll bust through it super fast.

Posted by: insertclevernamehere at February 9, 2009 6:48 PM

Oh brrrrrrrrrrrrrrother is EVERYONE gonna do one of these now?

Oh, and fuck this awkward dweeb.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at February 9, 2009 6:52 PM

I'm with Slim. I still want to give this kid a wedgie and stuff him in a locker.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at February 9, 2009 7:54 PM

meh

Posted by: c at February 9, 2009 8:07 PM

Sigh, my ADD seldom lets me get through the entire post, and therefore, get the point. *Hangs head*

Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at February 9, 2009 9:00 PM

and stuff him in a locker.

Oh yeah totally, Tracer Bullet! Wait, when you said locker you meant vagina, right?

I don't know what it is. Usually I'm not into super skinny boys who look like the only body hair they've had are the curly ones they drew on with a marker for their poorly timed Tom Selleck costume, but something about Cera does it for me. Of course he regularly douchetools (fuck yea, douchetool is a noun and a verb) it up by whining about doing an Arrested Development Movie, so those feelings don't last for long and I can go back to lusting over men like Krasinski, Levi and Depardieu (don't you fucking judge me).

But the "I respect you guys" lines had me giggling. It was cute, but nothing's quite as funny as the real thing.

Posted by: Kayanne at February 9, 2009 9:29 PM

After Infinite Jest, I consider that a huge recommendation, Prisco. I'm on it.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 9, 2009 10:20 PM

He needs ta gain some weight.

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 9, 2009 10:20 PM

Oh Kayanne, my dear, it appears we have NEARLY the same taste in men. (I would do Krasinski so much he'd lose his vision, I don't know who Levi is, and yeah, I'd do Depardieu after just two whiskey sours.)

(Do you dig Ewan McGregor?)

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 9, 2009 10:22 PM

I do like when he put on the robe, though.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at February 9, 2009 10:52 PM

He did pull a bale for real if you look up his part in knocked up. It's floating around on the youtube.

Posted by: sean m at February 9, 2009 11:16 PM

Anastasia Beaverhausen, girl, I think I likelike you so much I would go bar hopping with you and let you have first pick of the menfolk scoping us out. Krasinski needs a good hard screw, ya know, just to take the edge of innocence out of his smirk. He seems like such a nice guy; I really secretly hope he's a dirty boy. Levi is Zachary Levi (from Chuck), he also looks like a very fine man, but seems more likely to be down for it in an elevator than Krasinski would. But then again, Krasinski worked with Clooney so maybe he taught him the ways of the debonair freak. *fingers crossed*

Also, Depardieu made me love him in Cyrano. That giant nose of his (prosthetic and real) was like some kind of visual roofie. I don't know why I find him sexy, I just do. That having been said my taste in men is kind of all over the place.

RE: Diggin' Ewan McGregor
Hmm, he's always a toughie for me. I've always thought he was sweet, but never really got a jolt of chemistry from him. Like, I kind of felt like if I saw him getting coffee, I'd be like, eh, I'll flirt with the guy taking notes in Carson McCullers instead. Also, at this point I already have a few gay men in Hollywood I have crushes on and don't need any more (Oh, NPH, you sexysexy unavailable man). I know it's not confirmed that he's down with the dudes, but I just get a feeling, ya know?

But ya kow what, who am I to judge? I'd buy Nick Frost a drink. I just dig all types of men folk.

Posted by: Kayanne at February 9, 2009 11:59 PM

Michael Cera is the male Drew Barrymore -- onscreen, anyhow.

Posted by: Che Grovera at February 10, 2009 7:40 AM

He did pull a bale for real if you look up his part in knocked up. It's floating around on the youtube.

Shhh! Nobody tell him!

Posted by: Vermillion at February 10, 2009 7:42 AM

Kayanne: Unless your vagina is six-feet tall, made of rolled steel and includes a built-in Master lock, then no. And, hey, it might be. Pajibans have surprised me before.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at February 10, 2009 9:16 AM

I know it's not confirmed that he's down with the dudes, but I just get a feeling, ya know?

Hey now, are you just trying to start a rumor? What'd Renton ever do to you???

Posted by: Jay at February 10, 2009 10:08 AM

Not that funny.
I won't watch the entire thing.

Posted by: mario at February 10, 2009 12:49 PM

My doctor said those files were confidential. Bastard. It'll be the whole cat-eyed lady carnival freakshow all over again.

What'd Renton ever do to you???

Based on the court agreement, I'm not allowed to say.

Posted by: Kayanne at February 10, 2009 4:00 PM

I have to say, I think I love almost everything he does. This was great - especially seeing him put the dressing-gown on like that. Chortle.

Posted by: Caspar at February 10, 2009 6:29 PM

Ewan is some hot hot heat. It's that insane look in his eye when he gets enthused. I'd literally try anything that saucy boy recommended.

Posted by: replica at February 11, 2009 3:18 PM