The Awesome Michael Cera (Pictures): Cera Doesn’t Want To Be Famous – Too Late!

Posted on September 28, 2008

Michael Cera is an awesome actor, with his serious – almost innocent personality. Michael Cera said he doesn’t want to be famous, but is afraid it is happening. Hell yeah it is! This cutie is going to be huge! Did you know that Michael Cera’s girlfriend is Charlyne Yi? She’s the “stoner chick” from “Knocked Up”. Read more from Michael’s interview below.

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Fans of cutie Michael Cera will know him from “Superbad”, “Juno”, and his latest film “Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist”. All of us here at SC are huge fans of Michael Cera, as well as his other “Superbad” castmates including Jonah Hill, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Michael Cera had a great write-up in the New York Times. In the article, they talk about how Michael Cera is so serious, and how the laugh comes at the end of the sentence… after his words have slowed to a dribble. And his cute face as he delivers his lines make him an actor you don’t easily forget.

Michael Cera’s acting roles as a devoted baby daddy in “Juno” and a nerdy party seeker in “Superbad” showed his muted comedy signature-style. But interviewers say in real life, his quiet persona is a bit “unnerving”.

Jason Reitman, the director of “Juno”, said that talks with Michael Cera can be a bit off-putting. “Good luck figuring him out,” he said. “I met him when he was 16 and wondered, ‘Is this some kind of bit?’ But he’s totally sincere, totally kind and inscrutable. He’s the dark matter of the universe.”

At the Toronto International Film Festival this month Cera, 20, arrived for an interview with a bright red backpack, and his corduroy pants hiked up high and belted like a bag. Cera seems to appear as this adorable eccentric kid. It’s hard not to find his “adorableness” charming.

“This is my mom,” he said, when a blond woman waved from the hotel room door. Cera sat up straight and said “I don’t know” a million times in one hour. But perhaps he was just being vague about his latest flick, “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” which opens Oct. 3rd.

“I don’t really want to be famous, and I’m kind of scared that might be happening,” he said. “I might really have to stop and think before I make decisions now, and see how they’re going to affect my life, and see if it’s what I want to be doing with my life. I guess I need to make sure that it’s worth all that comes with it.”

If “it” is celebrity, then “it” is already happening, and his first turn as the leading man is certainly not going to slow his stardom. In the “Indie version” of the John Hughes movie, Nick is a jilted high school bassist and Norah, played by Kat Dennings, is an infatuated stranger that is intrigued by his homemade CD mixes. One night the couple go through New York, trying to find a secret rock show, and end up falling for one another.

The movie “Juno” earned $143 million and “Superbad” $121 million, which made Michael Cera a star. As he filmed his latest movie in New York, fans shouted, “Hey Superbad”. And at the premiere in Canada, screaming girls attempted to take Cera’s photo with their cellphones, as Michael Cera appeared thin and smiling nervously, as he walked the red carpet. That is part of Cera’s charm though, the handsome awkward type of guy. It makes him more endearing.

“It’s been an intense year for him,” Peter Sollett, the director of “Nick & Norah,” said. “The thing people love about him is he’s very open and sensitive, and I think he doesn’t want to change, but fame inspires change.”

Michael Cera is still coming to terms with his new found celebrity. “It’s so strange that people might hate me who have never met me, like people writing on message boards,” he said. “I’m most recognized for ‘Juno.’ I don’t know if it’s good or bad.”

Cera adds, “I think I would have been just as happy if it had just made back what it cost.”

Michael Cera is also known on the internet for a web-only show for CBS called “Clark and Michael”. Cera played in the role of a jerk, which is quite a different character for Cera. Michael Cera also is seen often on YouTube on clips like “Impossible is the Opposite of Possible”.

“In the ’70s and early ’80s, comedians reacted to the down-with-the-system attitude,” Mr. Reitman said. “But in modern comedy there’s a return to sweetness. It could even be a reaction to the violence and darkness of Tarantino that the indie has gone vulnerable. It’s a great moment for Michael Cera, who’s a good Canadian boy.”

Cera was raised in Brampton, Ontario, a small community outside Toronto. But he was unlike his character in “Nick and Nora” and did not go for the city night life. Cera stated, “I can’t stand bars. It’s too loud, and I get paranoid with a lot of people around. People are very obnoxious in bars. They try and take your picture. There’s no discretion.”

Michael Cera’s parents both worked for the company Xerox. Michael Cera started auditioning for Canadian tv and commercials while in public high school. But after Cera moved to LA with his mom, he landed his role as the youngest member of the Bluth family on the Fox comedy “Arrested Development”.

While Cera was filming the movie, “Nick & Norah” he lived in an apartment right by Mr. Sollett and his girlfriend. At 19, Cera would call the director to ask where to buy toothpaste and if it was safe to walk around the area at night. He just seems so innocent, which is part of Cera’s appeal.

“At some point the audience may want something different,” Jason. Bateman said (one of his castmates in “Juno”. “But I think there’s a misconception that he’s not acting.” Maybe, he suggested, Mr. Cera needs to play a tough pimp “to show that he’s not just talented by accident.”

Michael Cera is working on finishing the music for “Paper Hearts,” a partly fictional, partly documentary film about the meaning of love that was written by, and stars, Cera’s girlfriend, Charlyne Yi, a comedian who has been compared to Andy Kaufman, but is best known as the stoner chick on the couch in “Knocked Up.”

Michael Cera has turned into an unlikely sex symbol, the ultimate pinup for Lisa Simpson’s imaginary Non-Threatening Boys magazine. “I don’t — I can’t — that’s ridiculous,” he said when the subject came up, reddening a little. But Michael Cera is adorable! He’s so sweet, what girl wouldn’t like him?

Although Cera realizes he is being cast in certain roles, he doesn’t seem to mind. “I have no plans,” he said. “I might just try to lay low, or recede. I don’t want something not to happen in particular. I’m just taking it slow.”

Isn’t Michael Cera just adorable?

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