In Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist its just another average night in New York City. Teens and twentysomethings roaming the streets, hopping from club to club on the look out for their favorite band Where’s Fluffy. That’s how Nick, the straight bass player in a queercore band, meets Norah, the daughter of a record company exec. As they set off into the night together, love is definitely in the air.
Hollywood.com met up with stars Michael Cera and Kat Dennings the edgy teen romance opening in theaters Oct. 3, 2008.
Hollywood.com: Are you guys musically compatible in real life or just in the movie?
Michael Cera: Yeah, we kind of are.
Kat Dennings: Yeah, I love the Beach Boys…He loves the Beach Boys.
MC: Yeah, they’re great.
KD: I also love the Beach Boys. Sometimes we sang on the rainy days, remember we were on the roof then.
MC: We sang “Don’t Worry Baby.”
KD: Yeah, we harmonized.
HW: What about something a little more contemporary, like Coldplay?
MC: Do you like Cold Play? I might like Cold Play.
KD: Who doesn’t like Cold Play? They are really good…I don’t like their newer things, if you want to go there. Some people don’t like the Blood Brothers and I really do like the Blood Brothers.
MC: I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Blood Brothers.
KD: They are very screamy. There is a time and a place. A lot of people don’t like them. There is a time and a place. I like them – when I’m angry.
KEEP READING: People are upset!
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HW: Were the fans of the book and were you comfortable with the changes that were made?
MC: Yeah, I only read the book right before we shot.
KD: Yeah, me too…I liked it a lot. As a big book person I did want to do as much justice as I could. Movie Norah is different from book Norah, I’m not going to lie. The thing that I keep saying, which is true is that Norah does not wear a flannel shirt in the film, which is a huge part of her character in the book. I know there are some people who are upset about that.
HW: To be honest, people are upset about a lot of things.
KD: They are upset that I ask him to be my boyfriend and he doesn’t ask me.
MC: People get so upset, but the book – it is not like we are taking the book away from them.
KD: The book is there.
MC: I can’t feel too bad about it…I’m not going into their bedrooms and taking the book and putting the movie there. They need to think of it as a separate entity. When I like a book and it is made into a movie I think of them as two separate things. When you read a book you project your life onto it, it is so personal and intimate. You are one on one with the author and there is no way that you can make a movie that is exactly how everyone pictured the book. There is no way, it is impossible. When making a movie I think you just have to think of it as a movie.
KEEP READING: Driving stick…in a Yugo!
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HW: Michael, you spend a lot of time in that Yugo. Was it hard to drive?
MC: Yeah, very, very difficult. I didn’t drive stick before that.
KD: Difficult to be a passenger inside the Yugo.
MC: I had to learn on that to drive a stick and it hardly ran at all even for someone who knew how to properly drive a stick shift. They could hardly get it to go. I didn’t have to drive it too much.
HW: This movie is a love letter to New York. What were your New York experiences?
MC: I always loved New York and had been there a few times and had always wanted to move there. That is always where I wanted to end up since I was really young and it was great getting to be there for a few months. It was awesome.
HW: Did growing up in Brampton, Ontario influence your desire to move to New York?
MC: I don’t think it was that so much as seeing New York in movies and stuff. It is a great city.
KD: People are going to watch Nick and Norah and want to move to New York.
MC: Maybe yeah. I saw Ghost Busters and wanted to move to New York.
KEEP READING: Kat swaps gum with costar … gross!
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HW: Kat, is it true you came up with some of your own lines?
KD: When I punched Michael in the throat there wasn’t anything written for me to say really. There was maybe an “Aaah” sound. Pete [Sollett] was like, “Just say something awesome” so I said, “Let’s dance douche bag.” And it’s in and I’m ecstatic about it. And then you (referring to Michael Cera) tell me your from Hoboken and I say, “Hoboken no joken, whaaat?” The “whaaat” was all me, but the “Hoboken no joken” was told to me.
HW: And how could you take Ari Graynor’s gum and put it in your mouth. I heard that was the real deal.
KD: Well it was sort of the friendship seal, you know the final tattoo on our hearts. Ari is, first she has to hold fake vomit in her mouth, which is Ginger Ale mixed with ginger cookie. She may have told you. And she has a piece of gum in her mouth when she vomits this fake stuff into a bag and then she lies down on my lap and then she gives me her gum and I take her gum and put it in my mouth. In the movie there was a cut, but in life it happened. That gum was in her mouth and every single time – we started to do the new gum …
KEEP READING: Kat’s really wild night
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HW: Could you relate to this idea of running around town all night. Have you had this kind of experience before?
KD: The only story I can think of is one of my best friend’s Rodine and I didn’t have New Year’s Eve plans and we ended up at a [L.A.] concert for the Killers with 7,000 people out of nowhere. I got hit in the hand with a champagne cork and people thought I was a vampire…then we ended up in someone’s house and then we left and then we went to Bob’s Big Boy and had ice cream and then went home.
MC: The exact same thing happened to me in Brampton [laughs].
