Newton native bjnovak says he laid out all the most unpleasant aspects of himself in the “Vengeance” screenplay and was shocked nearly to death that someone took him up on it. “I had a panic attack when they told me they were actually making it.”
Most people would be beyond excited if a movie studio agreed to fund their dream project. B.J. Novak threw up.
Novak plays Ben Manalowitz, an intensely shallow and ruthlessly ambitious writer for The New Yorker who hangs out every night with John Mayer, picking up girls at fancy Manhattan cocktail parties.
He credits an acting coach for getting him accustomed to being so exposed onscreen. “She really made me comfortable with letting my guard down and feeling safe to share that version of myself,” he admits. “All these things I hate about myself… I’m shallow, I’m a player. But in making the movie I learned that everybody has these problems now. It’s not just John Mayer who has 20 girls in his phone, or me trying to be like John.
“It’s easy in our own lives to see the people we meet as characters,” Novak elaborates. “Even in your own friend group, you know? ‘He’s the drunk. She’s the party girl. He’s the one who gives me advice.’” The central conflict in “Vengeance” is his character coming to realize that the people around him are actually much more complicated and interesting than the characters he’s assigned them to play on his podcast.
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