- Stephen Root, Office Space, 1999. The hilarious satire was based on auteur Mike Judge’s mini-toons about an office worker called Milton Waddams. Now he had to find a live-action version. Artie was seen but Stephen got to the root ot Milton the collator – in such thick glasses, that he needed cotact lenses under them in order tofind anything,,, such as his rapidly famous red stapler. Judge was father of MTV’s Beavis & Butthead toons, just as Office Spacefathered Horrible Bosses, 2010. Jennifer Aniston midwifed both.
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Paul Giamatti, Man on the Moon, 1999. Lange and Giamatti were the only two actors dirtector Milos Forman looked over for Bob Zmuda – the writing partner of the bio-pic’s subject, surreal comic Andy Kaufman. Zmuda helped him create his boorish lounge-act alter ego, Tony Clifton. Lange said his test was heckling the Czech Forman doing Kaufman’s act. That must have been worth seeing!
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David Herman, Idiocracy, 2004. In the mix for the Secretary of Stated of what autuer Mike Judge first called: The United States of Uhh-merica… such a dumbed-down world that, according to Austin Chronicle critic Marjorie Baumgarten, it’s as if Beavis and Butt-head rule America.
- Wass Stevens, The Wrestler, 2008. Among the actors seen by director Darren Aronofsky forthe role of Nick Volpe.
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