Up in the Air writer/director Jason Reitman pulled off an interviewing first, doing something no other director has ever done during my nine years of interviewing filmmakers. Reitman started off our interview by saying he wished I'd hated his movie. No, that's not because I'm some sort of jinx whose support of a film causes it to tank. Reitman made the comment because after a whirlwind tour across the United States promoting his third critically acclaimed film, he was simply tired of hearing the same old questions. "What's it like to direct George Clooney?" "Why did you want to bring Walter Kirn's novel to the big screen?" Etc, etc, etc. Reitman had even created a pie chart out of the questions."Oddly enough if you hated the movie it might actually make for more interesting conversation," said Reitman, explaining his reasoning. "I'd have no idea what you were going to ask me. It's like what the [----] do you ask when you hate a movie?"
So, the gauntlet had been thrown down. My questions had to be different than every other journalist who had the pleasure of speaking to Reitman during his extensive and exhausting publicity tour. That in mind, here's what Reitman had to say about his follow-up to Thank You for Smoking and Juno: Up in the Air.
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