”I’m playing Hilary’s love interest. She’s trying to set her mom up with this perfect man and along the way she meets sort of, I guess, her version of the perfect boy. So that was me,” explained Feldman.
Feldman on What Makes Him the ‘Perfect Boy:’ “I don’t even know. [Laughing] I don’t even know why I’m in the movie. I think everyone has their own perfect man or perfect boy and I think that’s sort of the message of this movie. That there really isn’t any such thing as the perfect man unless it’s individual. I think, you know in this movie my character just happened to gel with hers. We were both loners. We were both sort of outcasts and sort of looked on from afar.”
On Relating to His Character: “I totally can. The funny thing is that the difference between this movie and real life is that this character in the movie, in real life would have been the most popular kid in high school. He’s so cool. He’s hilarious and he’s a good artist. But I mean, I was sort of somewhere in between that. I was kind of a loner. I liked to be a little different. I’m into that.
I was never the Prom King. The only thing I got was I got a Senior Superlative for funniest, which I didn’t deserve. And I watched all the funny guys in the audience roll their eyes just because I was the loudest.”
Being Cast in Comedies: “I’d love to be doing dramas. I went to acting school. I have a BFA from a theater school. I’ve done a lot of drama just not on any big screens, or little screens for that matter.”
Ben Feldman on Life on the Set of “The Perfect Man” with Hilary Duff: “I’ve been telling everybody I think the hardest scene was the day… There’s actually one kissing scene that’s not in the movie. There’s two of them but they cut one of them out, and that was the hardest because it was the first time we did a kissing scene and it wasn’t that far into production. It was also the first day that I met her dad and her dad will do anything he can to make you intimidated. And her mom’s already kind of intimidating [laughing] in a funny way. So that was a pretty crazy day, plus there’s like 10 million extras there watching it as well. But it was a great time [with] a great group of people. For a month and a half these were my best friends. We had an amazing time.”
On Why the Kissing Scene was Cut: “It didn’t make sense in the movie and when everybody sees it, you’ll see. There’s something else that happens instead. There’s already a kissing scene and I think too much of me kissing on the screen and I think people are going to start to roll their eyes or go get some popcorn.”
Bonding with Hilary Duff: “Hilary’s a big ‘go out to dinner’ kind of person. She’s not bar age or anything. We did a lot of hanging out. We went out to dinner a lot; we went out to the movies. Vanessa [Lengies] and I took up painting for a little while and bought canvasses and paint, just to do something. We brought it up to my apartment and set out canvasses and painted. You do whatever you can. We were in a great city and we got to walk around and see sites and the museums.”
Ben Feldman on His Upcoming Film, “When Do We Eat:” “That’s an independent film that I’m hoping is coming out at some point because it’s great and it’s hilarious. You know, somebody is going to interested at some point and it’s going to come out and we’ll all see it. It’s weird and I think everybody loves a dysfunctional family movie. A total dysfunctional family and I’m like the druggie son who gets his dad high. It’s total comedy.”
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS FROM “THE PERFECT MAN” PREMIERE:
Hilary Duff / Mike O’Malley / Director Mark Rosman / Gina Wendkos & Michael McQuown
