You may not know Armie Hammer’s name or face, but you will soon. Hammer, who’s primarily been acting on TV until this point, will be appearing as the Winklevoss twins in David Fincher’s upcoming film The Social Network. In the film (and in real life), Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — both Harvard students and future Olympic rowers — sued Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the idea for Facebook, in a case which raises some interesting questions about the nature of intellectual property theft. My favorite description of the twins in the film comes from Alison Willmore’s review, in which she writes, “Hammer is infinitely amusing in his dual role, exuding privilege and looking like something grown in a vat of J. Crew catalogs and Aryan race propaganda.”
At this press junket for The Social Network this past weekend, I had a chance to chat with Hammer, along with Steve Weintraub from Collider. More coverage from that junket will come later this week. In the meantime, in our unique double interview after the jump, we talked about what it was like to play two characters, what role he was supposed to play in George Miller’s troubled Justice League project, and how his role as Student #2 in Arrested Development helped prepare him for the rest of his career. A huge thanks to Steve for joining me for this interview, and for providing the video and timestamps.
- How did his experiences as student #2 in Arrested Development help him with The Social Network?
- He talks about his career and how he got to being in a David Fincher film
- 2:15 â€" Did he ever have a moment when he thought about giving up on acting
- 2:30 â€" Talks about walking in and auditioning in front of Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher
- 3:25 â€" Most challenging thing to film
- 4:15 â€" The challenge of doing so many takes as he plays both twins
- 5:10 â€" Talks about how when he signed onto the movie how he wasn’t sure how the final film was going to look. And neither did the producers
- 6:40 â€" The physicality of the role and how he played each twin a little differently
- 7:40 â€" Talks about how they made it all work
- 8:45 â€" He mentions an encounter with someone that saw the movie and compared him to his brother.
- 10:00 â€" How Business Week has an article as they watched the movie with the real twins
- 11:30 â€" His feelings about playing real people
- 12:20 â€" When he was on set was he ever able to geek out with Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher. Tells an awesome story about filming in England and how he spent weeks with Fincher every night talking shop
- 13:55 â€" He relays a story from one of those England nights. Talks about how Fincher started making movies when he was 6 years old
- 15:40 â€" What is he thinking about for future projects and a type of role
- 18:15 â€" Talks about how he almost played Batman in George Miller’s Justice League and how he thinks it would have been an incredible movie and unlike any other comic book film. Also talks about the art department and how everything had been storyboarded
In addition, here’s the slightly-higher-quality audio-only version of the interview.
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Armie Hammer is of part Jewish descent.
ResponderEliminarActors of fully Jewish background: Logan Lerman, Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mila Kunis, Bar Refaeli, James Wolk, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julian Morris, Adam Brody, Esti Ginzburg, Kat Dennings, Gabriel Macht, Erin Heatherton, Odeya Rush, Anton Yelchin, Paul Rudd, Scott Mechlowicz, Lisa Kudrow, Lizzy Caplan, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gal Gadot, Debra Messing, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Margarita Levieva, Elizabeth Berkley, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel, Corey Stoll, Mia Kirshner, Alden Ehrenreich, Eric Balfour, Jason Isaacs, Jon Bernthal, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.
Andrew Garfield and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are Jewish, too (though I don’t know if both of their parents are).
Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, James Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Eva Green, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Emmy Rossum, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Black D’Elia, Nora Arnezeder, Goldie Hawn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Peet, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Barnes, Patricia Arquette, Kyra Sedgwick, Dave Annable, Ryan Potter.
Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jews and/or identify as Jews: Ezra Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, Nicola Peltz, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Winona Ryder, Michael Douglas, Ben Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nikki Reed, Zac Efron, Jonathan Keltz, Paul Newman.
Oh, and Ansel Elgort’s father is Jewish, though I don’t know how Ansel was raised. Robert Downey, Jr. and Sean Penn were also born to Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers. Armie Hammer and Chris Pine are part Jewish.
Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism: Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.