Barbie, Ken and… Allan?
Michael Cera plays a reimagined version of the famous plastic pair’s forgotten, unglamorous third wheel – on exactly zero on young girls’ Christmas list – in the upcoming Barbie movie.
But listening to the actor talk, the role of the freak is likely to be right up his alley.
While the Canadian-born actor has been a household name for nearly 15 years with memorable roles in “Arrested Development”, “Superbad” and “Juno”, all that fame at a young age almost put him out of business, Cera, now 35, told The guardian.
“That was the point [at 19] where I desired to stop taking a job that will make me more famous,” Cera confessed in an off-the-cuff interview about refusing smartphones, fatherhood, and being overwhelmed by early fame.
“I didn’t know handle walking down the street,” said “Scott Pilgrim” actor of life as an adolescent. “Fame makes you very uncomfortable in your individual skin, paranoid and freaky.”
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Cera described going to a bar the weekend Superbad was released, an R-rated highschool comedy that became an easy classic.
“It was a mistake,” Cera said of the experience. “It was like a burning feeling all the time, as if everyone was aware of me.”
While he effortlessly took on the awkward teenage roles that also characterize his most recognizable performances, he became equally self-conscious off-screen.
After this era, Cera deliberately withdrew from the highlight.
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He shocked his agents by turning down a concert hosted by SNL and even hinted that before the start of Edgar Wright’s 2010 “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” Cera “really didn’t know if [he] he was going to proceed to be an actor.”
“I feel I desired to be a working actor who could enjoy my on a regular basis life and the world I created for myself,” Cera thought. “I feel it was a generic thing I used to be attempting to determine.”
(*19*)