Future Dillinger: Michael Cera declares range wider than awkward teens (Photo by Karon Liu)
“This is brutal,” said a film critic as we sit in the largely empty media room at Sutton Place. There were only five minutes left before the arrival of the cast and crew of the new Michael Cera awkward-teen rom-com (is there any other kind?), Youth In Revolt. Aside from us, there were four photographers and five reporters. The low turnout must have been due to TIFF burnout and the fact that most of the cast members—Justin Long, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi—didn’t show up.
The emptiness got so bad that organizers had to pull in the guys working at the BlackBerry booth outside to be seat fillers. And since all TIFF press conferences last 40 minutes, we all (including the BlackBerry guys) got together to brainstorm as many questions as we could to fill up the time.
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Canada’s sweetheart, Michael Cera, donned a woolly sweater and took to the red carpet at the Visa Screening Room for the premiere of Youth in Revolt. See photos of Cera, co-star Portia Doubleday and director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl) below.
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