Movie Juice Interview

Mark Ramsey and Devon Sawa sitting in a hotel room, Devon on a couch and Mark in the chair beside it.

Mark: Now, your co-star in this is, uh, is so-called supermodel, James King.

Devon: Right.

M: Uh, when you first found out you were gonna be in this movie with her, what was your reaction?

Dev: Um—

Cut to: Devon and Mark joking around, Devon pretending to strangle Mark with the telephone chord.

Back to:

Dev: I really didn’t know who she was, uh, because I—you know—everybody else did. Uh, but I wasn’t in tune to the modeling world or-or the fashion world, so I really didn’t know who she was. She was a very beautiful girl, she was very talented when we read. Um, she was great to work with.

Cut to: Devon and Mark knocking on a hotel room door and running away down the hall.

Back to:

M: Now, does she go by any other names besides James?

Dev: No, just James.

M: Just James.

Dev: Just James.

M: Jim?

Dev: What?

M: Jim?

Dev: Jim? No, not Jim. It’s actually funny ‘cause when they say who’s your—who’s your romantic costar, I say James King, and they’re like, “Oh, it’s a gay movie.” I was like, “No...i-it’s not.”

M: NOT that there’s anything WRONG with that!

Dev: Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

Cut to: a hotel guest peering out of his door; Devon and Mark still running down the hallway. The guest goes back into his room, not too happy about their knock-and-run; Devon and Mark still running.

Back to:

M: And so, she didn’t go by, uh, Jim. She didn’t go by Jim-Bo?

Dev: No.

M: Jimalingadingdong?

Dev: No, not Jimalingadingdong, either.

M: No. Alright. Uh, so, in your past couple of movies, you had Ali Larter.

Dev: Yes.

M: Had in, you know, a kinda casting sense.

Dev: Right.

M: Ali Larter, James King. I mean, at some point, you know, they’re—

Dev: Jessica Alba.

M: Je—I didn’t know about that, when did you have her?

Dev: Idle Hands. Yeah, I’ve worked with some beautiful costars.

M: Yes, you have, you’re a very lucky guy.

Dev: Yeah, they’ve all been very talented.

M: Do they need to pay you for this?

Dev: Right. No, uh, no, it’s very, you know, it-it’s-it’s cool, it’s—I’ve had a lot of fun with my costars.

M: There’s gonna come a point where the Hollywood folks are gonna come to you and say, "We wanna-we wanna get your lips in cement over Grahmin’s Chinese Theater." They come to you for that yet?

Dev: Nah, not yet. Not yet.

Cut to: Devon and Mark walking down another hotel hallway. They stop a passing room service woman.

Devon: Hi, um, FBI. We’re just checking for-checking for bugs. [Devon looks around her cart.]

Mark: Did you save anything for us?

[Checks under salt and pepper shakers.]

Devon: You’re fine.

Woman: Alright.

Back to:

Mark: What’s the dumbest question you’ve ever been asked?

Devon: The-the last one you just asked. No, I’m kidding. Uh—

Mark: I was gonna ask you if you roll your socks or fold them, and I was hoping that that would be—

Devon: That would be pretty dumb. No—

Cut to: Mark and Devon in the parking lot playing with a Frisbee. Mark throws it missing Devon (we can’t even see where it went, probably in the nearby bushes). Devon stops, posed in preparation to catch it. He looks in the direction the Frisbee went, then back to the camera.

Devon: Should I dive?

Back to:

Devon: I was on one interview and, um, I just said that I have a girl—they, said “are you going out with anybody?”, and I said, “yeah, I’m going out with someone.” And not but two questions later, they asked me “What-who’s the person you wanna do the biggest, steamiest love scene with?” Like-like my girlfriend’s right on the other si—it’s like….Why would you ask me that?! So…

Cut to: Devon and Mark playing Frisbee again. Devon throws it, Mark is set to catch it with an arm under his leg. He fails.

Back to:

Mark: MTV Cribs! Now, you’ve gotta tell me the truth about this.

Devon: Okay.

Mark: I’ve never understood why you walk into a place on MTV Cribs and it’s like, immaculate. I mean, where’s the stuff?

Devon: [deadpan] It’s not my house.

Mark: What do you mean?

Devon: It’s not my house.

Mark: You were in someone else’s house?

Devon: I rented someone else’s house. For the weekend.

Mark: Do they all do that?

Devon: Everybody does it! We all-we all live at the Oakwood in-in-in L.A.

Mark: I had no idea

Devon: It-it’s, yeah, we live in—they give us furnished apartments at the Oakwood. Just like a studio with a pull-down bed. And that’s—

Mark: I-I had no idea—

Devon: Totally. No, yeah, they-they give us rich people’s houses, and we—we go in and pretend.

Mark: That’s what I thought. Did you see Mariah Carey’s?

Devon: Yeah, that’s not her house either. And Seal’s, the Seal house? You know Seal’s house with all the Ferraris and everyth—that’s not his house. He lives with me. At the Oakwood. Next door.

Mark: That explains a lot.

Cut to: Frisbee again. Mark throws it, and it falls very short of Devon. Devon stands up straight, looks around, spreads his hands, turns to the camera.

Devon: Who is this guy?!

Back to:

Mark: See, I-I—

Devon: It’s all an image. It’s all an image, no—

Mark: See, picturing you in the bathroom wi—

Devon: No, it-it’s actually done on the lot at Universal. They-they built the house at the lot on Universal. Yeah.

Mark: Does it burst into flames when the tourists came in?

Devon: Af-after they did, uh—

Mark: King Kong come in and reach from the side and—

Devon: Yeah, after, yeah, actually, it was right behind the King Kong lot.

Mark: Right by the Psycho house?

Devon: Yeah.

Mark: Appropriate.

M: Okay. Uh, Mamie van Dorne is in this movie.

Dev: Yes. She-I-I don’t know what was wrong with that woman. Um—

M: Well, she’s got 70 years of stuff that’s wrong with her.

Dev: Yeah, but, but the-the other parts of her are only… ‘bout five years old. Uh—

M: That was pretty evident.

Dev: Yeah, no, she-she…it was not scripted that she do that. And she-she all of a sudden [motions as if opening his shirt]—all of a sudden—it wasn’t scripted. And Jason’s lines weren’t scripted, either. Basically he was just supposed to…I don’t know what he was supposed to do…kiss her on the cheek or som—I don’t know. But anyways, [motions again] all of a sudden…her two friends come out, and, um.

M: Her two NEW friends.

Dev: Her two new friends. Yeah. Her five-year-old kids.

M: You know what, I ha-I-I have very few rules, but one of them is anyone who’s played opposite Clark Gable should not take their clothes off in 2001, 2002.

Dev: Right. Um, yeah, he—there was-there was no lines for that. So, Jason basically, Jason basically, um, improvised on that whole thing. Yeah, he’s—we were all behind the cameras just holding our mouths [motions, covering up his mouth]. And he’s [imitating Jason] “Should I lift your booby? Should I-should I rub on your booby? Should I kiss your nipple?” And it’s just like [motions and screams] uggghhhh!!! So…

M: Yeah, if your age rounds to three digits: keep your clothes on.

Dev: Right. Right.

M: That’s my feeling on this thing.

Cut to: Frisbee again. Mark turns sideways with the Frisbee.

Mark: Okay, I’m gonna face this way, and it’ll come to you.

He throws the Frisbee and it lands near the side of the building, again far from Devon. Devon slides on the slick pavement to get to it.

Devon: Okay, you know what? I-I’m finished. I’m finished.

Mark: Alright, fair enough.

Devon throws the Frisbee back to Mark, it hits him in his lower stomach. He doubles over, exaggerating his pain.

For those of you that have seen Slackers, Mamie van Dorne is (if you couldn't figure it out) the old woman in the hospital that "used to be a whore". And when he said the part about the "five-year-old kids", Devon kept twiddling his thumbs (when he wasn't otherwise motioning).

Back 12.31.2007.