Seth Rogen and Reese Witherspoon Monsters vs Aliens Press Conference
Reese, what do you have coming up next?Reese Witherspoon: "I’m doing a movie with Jim Brooks next and Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson and Bill Murray. I don’t know what the title is."
Are you filming it now?
Reese Witherspoon: "Someday. [Laughing] I’ve been making it since September. I’ve been talking about it since September. I’m starting to feel like one of those people that goes to Hollywood parties and goes, 'Yeah, I’m making movies with Jim Brooks.'"
Seth Rogen: [Laughing] "Exactly. For six years."
Reese Witherspoon: "I’ve only been making movies with Jim Brooks for about two years now. And one day we’ll start filming and it’s going to be fantastic. Maybe."
What's your role?
Reese Witherspoon: "I play a professional athlete. There’s comedy. There’s definitely comedy and drama. All that stuff."
What sport?
Reese Witherspoon: "Softball."
Seth Rogen: "It’s awkward when you don’t know how much to reveal. That’s what I always do when people ask me. Look, I have no idea what to say. No one else has said anything."
Reese Witherspoon: "Am I allowed to? Am I going to get fired? They can still fire me. We haven’t shot the movie yet."
Seth, can you bring us up to speed on The Green Hornet?
Seth Rogen: "Michel Gondry is going to direct it. Me and Evan (Goldberg) are in the process of rewriting it with him right now. We should start shooting it in the end of June, around then."
How is it changing?
Seth Rogen: "You can’t have a guy like Michel around and not get a bunch of new ideas thrown at you. That guy — as soon as he’s in the room, anything seems possible. It’s really exciting to work with a guy like that. We hire directors specifically who we think are smarter than us and who can do things that we can’t do, and he more than fits that criteria."
Do you each have a favorite superhero?
Reese Witherspoon: "I liked Wonder Woman as a kid. I watched Linda Carter over and over and over again. And I had my golden lasso and my whole costume. I think I wore it for seven Halloweens, so she’d probably be my favorite."
Seth Rogen: "Oh, I don’t know. Batman."
Did Monsters vs Aliens inspire you to want to play more superheroes? Maybe Wonder Woman in its new version?
Reese Witherspoon: "I don’t know."
Would you like to?
Reese Witherspoon: "I don’t know. [Laughing] It seems kind of challenging. Maybe Seth can let me know how Green Hornet goes."
Seth Rogen: "Physically, it already sucks. I’ll tell you that."
Reese Witherspoon: "It’s so hard. I’ll be totally honest with you. If I never had to see the inside of a gym again, I’d be a very happy person. The idea of it, there’s people who love it and it’s just their thing and it’s like I can do it, and I can do it for my job because I’m really lucky to get this job and have a job, but it’s not my first choice of morning activity."
Which of the big summer movies are you looking forward to seeing?
Seth Rogen: "That’s a good question. What have we got? We’ve got Wolverine Origins. That’s coming. I’m in. Transformers I’m in. Star Trek, I’m in."
Reese Witherspoon: "Oh, I want to see Star Trek."
Seth Rogen: "Every one. I’ll see every one. [To Reese:] Which ones do you want? All those? Are you going to see them all?"
Reese Witherspoon: "I like J.J. Abrams. I think Star Trek will be very cool. I think that will be interesting."
Seth Rogen: "That will be good. I’m excited. Good pick. Good pick."
