With the release of "Jersey Girl," Mosier's ready to take a much-deserved vacation away from filmmaking. But before he goes off exploring the world, he sat down to answer a few questions about View Askew's newest release:
How frustrating has it been that Kevin Smith has to spend half his interviews explaining Ben and Jennifer stuff?
That's a good question for him. I think he's so seasoned at this point and I think it's something he knew going in that, I think, he knew when he entered into that junket that the first four questions were going to be about that and all about that. So I think he was ready for it. But you know what? It's necessary. And it was necessary now that the movie's coming out to answer those questions so we can position it the way it's supposed to be. This is our opportunity to make people think about the movie in a different way than what the perception has been from back in the time. Once the other movie came out and our name was getting thrown into those articles, whether you want to do it or not, it was important for us to go out and say we're not that movie. We have nothing to do with that movie. Our movie is a completely different experience. So I'm sure he's tired of it, but I think he knew that it was something that he needed to do.
Was the Ollie (Ben Affleck) and Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) montage originally longer, full-length scenes?
Maybe one or two, but not the entire thing. There's lots of stuff in there that was a montage. That whole montage is not broken up scenes. There's a couple, but not the entire thing.
What are the rules for handling kids in compromising situations?
Well, any time you're doing any work with kids, there are representatives of the state with them. There are people providing you with guidelines all the time. But then as adults, you talk to the kids about it and make sure they know what they're doing and make sure the parents are comfortable. It's one of those scenes where you talk about it with everybody so everybody knows exactly what it is. But then you end up shooting it in a way where it comes off like it might've been more compromising than it really was. To be on the set, there was a little boy, but he was wearing his underwear and stuff.
How young a kid do you think can see "Jersey Girl?"
Any kid over 13 I think would be fine. There's different types of 13-year-olds but it should always be the parent who's making the decision as to what their kid can handle. But I would say anyone over 13, and then underneath that, I do think that's when the parents need to step in, see the movie, and decide whether they think there's anything in there that they would feel uncomfortable [with].
So with someone of actress Raquel Castro's age, you'd leave it to the parent?
I'm not a parent, so I'm not going to say it's fine for everybody because every parent has to make their own decision. I mean, I personally don't feel that there's anything in there that's that offensive and that a kid her age shouldn't see. But once again, that's the decision of a parent.
Did the legal department have to clear the use of the name of every singer who was mentioned in the movie?
Every time you make a movie, you go sit through with the legal department, [and] you do all these reports. It's all about the context of what it's in.
Where did the new View Askew CGI logo come from?
There's a guy named Chris Bailey who was the director on the "Clerks" animated series and he not only does traditional 2D but he works in 3D. He's working on "Garfield" now and he's working on a few films, so we've kept in touch. Kevin had the idea, for the 10th year he wanted to do a new logo. And so Chris directed and hired people, built and did the whole thing. That'll be the logo for a while.
