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How was the dance scene done? It was all improvisation, the director Jared knows that I like to dance so he wrote it into the script but then I just rolled with it. Talking about research did you research the Loch Ness monster? Jared wrote some of the stuff then I just ad-libbed. How was the Sundance Festival? It was insane, but also really cool because that was our aim to get it seen, meet some agents and so on. At the first screening people went nuts! Did you rub shoulders with a lot of stars? I met a lot of agents but I did see a lot of stars. Was it an emotional experience to get such a good response for your hard work? It was overwhelming, very cool and it opened up a door to so many potential opportunities. Was it odd working with a veteran like Tina Majorino? It was cool, she has had a lot of experience from films like WATERWORLD and it was the same with Jon Gries he has been around for a while as well. What was the scene with hens like? It was nasty, it all really smelly bad and I couldn’t eat chicken for a while it was gross and cool at the same time. So are you an expert milk taster now and what does the FFA stand for? The Future Farmers of America and they go milk tasting instead of camping. I am not an expert yet. Were you pushed into acting? I was always interested in acting but I wanted to do something big. The scene in the movie where you are at home on the phone to Pedro the phone you use has an obscenely long phone cord, how did you come up with that? That was very funny for all of us. Most of it was improvised. I just think that Napoleon is the kind of guy who keeps his conversations private so he keeps walking from room to room to keep it private and the cord is so long that it makes this possible. Who do you think it will appeal to? I think that the 18 to 30 year-olds bracket should dig it as there are a lot of references to the eighties and this is not your average teenage movie. Still it has exploded with 12 to 13 year-olds and now most teenagers who initially didn’t get it are getting it. The body language did it perhaps bother you that it may make him look retarded? No I think that he is only socially retarded and generally very awkward and this affects his actions. There is a scene that was cut out that involves a wedding between two characters in the film, what was that all about? I can’t say, but it was all Fox’s idea. It was a final five minutes that we decided to throw in. It will be on the DVD so you’ll just have to wait to see it. Napoleon Dynamite – movie information PHASE9 movie review Back to movie interviews

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