I’ve read stuff in other magazines about you…
Yeah, I really get really silly articles –
Why do you think that is?
Because I’m young and they want to hear certain things and I guess I don’t say them. I have no idea, I guess because I’m not overwhelmed by show business or something. I kind of have it in perspective, a little bit.
Is that why you could say to Oliver, this multi-award-winning director “I think we should do more movies”
(Laughs) That’s how we talked from the beginning. Yeah, we get along, Oliver and I. But acting is, like, so vain in a way, I don’t know. I have a hard time with it sometimes, but I’ve gotten rid of it, I had to play this part. You have a camera on you and to be able to act and do this stuff. It’s kind of selfish and strange… I have a hard time doing it sometimes but he wants you to really milk it, cause that’s what you’re supposed to do, milk it.
Well, maybe it would be fun to do that because in another kind of movie you’d be “acting” but in this movie you’re over-acting. It’s a parody of acting, too, because it seems like a lot of this movie is a parody of the media, it’s a parody of what’s real, and what you were saying about going so far with the acting, it’s another parody of the movie itself.
Some of the stuff is really obnoxious, like just wearing these clothes. See, to other people this might be fun, but I feel really obnoxious. Because I’m not egotistical. See, they write about me as cocky, it’s not cocky or arrogant or something, that’s not what it is. Or we’ll have an interview and we’ll talk about all these things and then they’ll write s**t that’s really dippy. That’s the stuff they’ll pick to print. I’m happy if like twenty percent of me, you get like a generally tiny feeling of Juliette – just a little bit – then I’m happy. I don’t expect too much, you know. So it doesn’t drive me crazy, I guess.
“It’s kind of selfish and strange…I have a hard time doing it…”
As far as I know, I’m the only press reporter that’s coming to the set, is that like a relief for you?
No no no, it all serves a purpose. I guess you do the magazines to sell the movie and also as kind of a small obligation. Because if you are going to be a performer and a lot of people are going to see you, I guess they want to know where you’re born and what you’re like. I know I kind of want to know that, especially if you have an affinity toward an artist, like a particular painter or something, you think “How does he do that?” or “What’s he like?” or “Did he go to school?” or just little stuff like that. And then of course, other people want to hate you or something so, I don’t know. So like in the article you sell the movie and then you talk a little bit about yourself.
Has that formula kind of worked out for you, do you kind of know what they are going to ask?
No, it’s been really silly, but I expect that because I’m young and people look at young people and think “Oh, you have a lot to go through and blah, blah, blah and that’s fine, but everyone’s different.” It’s not like all adults have learned from their mistakes. You have some people who have been doing the same thing for, like, twenty years and are complete morons and are sixty and fifty and seventy so age is just a number of how old your body is, sometimes. And some people actually suit their age, I don’t know. But, no, I don’t get overly stressed out about press. Maybe I will later, but I haven’t gotten that way yet.
Do you think that when some people see this movie, especially younger people, are going to decide in their minds about Mickey and Mallory “Hey, they’re really cool” and not get the joke?
No. That was my concern about this movie and I think the way it’s being done, even though it’s hard to predict what the end result is going to be, I really do think it’s going to come across that this is a satire on all the people that go “Wow, Manson really does have something to say, he’s really interesting”. I think it will be great. I think it will show that. They had some talk show on people who thought Jeffrey Dahmer was really cute. They weren’t there, they don’t have the full reality of sitting the room with the guy cutting a guy’s head off – or smell it – so they are really detached. I think if they were there in the room, I don’t think they would feel that way.
