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| mcd |
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Copy/pasted from Rovostrov at VV
Premiere July/August 2006
The Comedy Issue
Taken from the article
An Oral History of Comedy
Jon Favreau, writer-actor, Swingers: Swingers was sort of based on my life in many ways, although the story didn't follow my life. Characters were exaggerated versions of friends, and those friends ended up playing those roles, and we shot it in my neighborhood with my car and the clubs I used to go to. And I was getting over a relationship, though I never left five messages on a girl's machine.
It dealt with issues that I was dealing with when I first moved to Hollywood. But it's not the true story [of] what happened one weekend or something like that. There's this tremendous sense of yearning and a loneliness that goes on in Hollywood, because you have people who've left everything behind to chase a dream. Here you are with no family, a lot of times with no money, with very little to show for your efforts and bravery, and so you tend to rely on friends or look for distractions. This isn't a group of dudes who are out drinking and doing coke every night, to make that feeling go away. This is a group of friends that want to meet some girls, but basically they're just normal, earnest guys. It wasn't the dark side. It's a hopeful message because [the guys] are inspiring and supporting each other. And the funny is on the surface, but I think the thing that makes people laugh is that underneath it, there's a genuine connection and an emotional aspect to the film.
[Vince Vaughn and I] met on the set of Rudy. He had been cast out of Los Angeles off of a tape, and I had been my career was starting full-bore and I really was trying to mind my p's and q's. I was definitely coming at it with the discipline of an adult who was trying to build a career. Vince gets out there and he's like, "Where's the honky-tonk? Let's go find a good time" I always saw him as somebody who was the straw in the cocktail. You know, the cocktail stirrer. So the relationship developed between us where he was always getting me in over my head and I was the one who was sort of digging my heels in. But we both made each other laugh a great deal. It's like two musicians a little bit, because we play around each other well. If you think [somebody's] shit's funny, you get drawn into it more. And he's very, very fast. He's like a boxer who could land ten punches on me for every one I land on him, but sometimes I knock him off balance for a few.
There's a sensibility that he is able to embody in these movies, and he'll do it in day-to-day life, but it's not who he really is. He plays these womanizers, but he's not a womanizer in any sense of the word. It was more about the attitude than anything. I don't think he ever had a very difficult time meeting women, you know? And he never really put a value on what women thought of him. That's what made him successful with women. These men's magazines get it wrong, because they make it like "Here's some lines you should do" and "the game" and all this stuff, and I think anytime you put that much effort into worrying about something, it creates this gravity around it. Part of the theme of Swingers�and certainly Vince's character in Swingers�is, don't make a big deal out of it. Just be comfortable with who you are. Take the piss out of the situation.
Everybody who saw Swingers was like, "Where did you come up with [Vince's] character?" It was really me just writing to his voice, creating monologues of things that he either did say or would say. And I think he's cultivated that aspect of his personality and really refined it in Wedding Crashers. He hit another level with that one. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:50 am |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:51 pm |
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Jon and his wife welcomed a baby girl on tuesday.
He posted on his myspace blog: "I just had a baby. Last night I had my third kid. Her name is Brighton Rose Favreau and she is doing great."
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:05 pm |
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From People magazine website
Jon Favreau, Wife Have a Girl
THURSDAY AUGUST 31, 2006 01:35PM EST
Actor, screenwriter and director Jon Favreau and his physician wife Joya Tillem have welcomed their third child, daughter Brighton Rose Favreau, the actor's rep confirmed to PEOPLE.
The baby, who was born on Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, weighed 6 lbs., 13 oz. and measured 18.5 inches. Favreau celebrated the news with a posting on his MySpace blog: "Last night I had my third kid. Her name is Brighton Rose Favreau and she's doing great."
The couple are already parents to daughter Madelaine, 3, and son Max, 5, who is named for a character in Favreau's 2001 comedy Made.
Favreau, 39, and Tillem, 36, a doctor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, wed on Nov. 24, 2000, in Sonoma, Calif.
Favreau first gained fame with 1996's Swingers, which he wrote and starred in with good buddy Vince Vaughn, with whom he reunited in the summer hit The Break-Up. He has also built a successful career behind the camera, directing movies such as 2003's Elf and 2005's Zathura: A Space Adventure.
http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1515771,00.html
US magazine added this tidbit
Coincidentally, Favreau�s daughter was born the same day that fellow Break-Up actor John Michael Higgins and his wife, actress Margaret Welsh, welcomed a baby boy, Walter Lloyd Higgins.
John Michael higgins played Jen's brother and will also be in Joe claus with
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Quote: Coincidentally, Favreau's daughter was born the same day that fellow Break-up actor John Michael Higgins and his wife, actress Margaret Welsh, welcomed a baby boy, Walter Lloyd Higgins.
Jeez, the whole cast is having babies!!
Jason Bateman and his wife are expecting a baby, too.
This must mean Jen and Vince are next  |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:01 pm |
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kristinR wrote: Quote: Coincidentally, Favreau's daughter was born the same day that fellow Break-up actor John Michael Higgins and his wife, actress Margaret Welsh, welcomed a baby boy, Walter Lloyd Higgins.
Jeez, the whole cast is having babies!!
Jason Bateman and his wife are expecting a baby, too.
This must mean Jen and Vince are next
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:06 pm |
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| Both were born at Cedars Sinai Hospital as well |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:18 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:48 pm |
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I've never heard the name Brighton for a girl before, that's different.
Congrats to Jon and Joya 
I wonder if Jen and Vince would be able to visit without the paparazzi catching them. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:19 am |
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| Aww congrats to them! |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:23 am |
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JA-FAN wrote: I've never heard the name Brighton for a girl before, that's different.
Congrats to Jon and Joya
I wonder if Jen and Vince would be able to visit without the paparazzi catching them.
I sure they will probably wait until they get home. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:25 am |
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RnR4eva wrote: JA-FAN wrote: I've never heard the name Brighton for a girl before, that's different.
Congrats to Jon and Joya
I wonder if Jen and Vince would be able to visit without the paparazzi catching them.
I sure they will probably wait until they get home.
Yeah hospitals tend not to keep you in very long anymore. So I would imagine Jen & Vince will wait to go together after everyone is home.
Congrats to Jon & Joya though.. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:59 pm |
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Thanks- those are adorable.  Love that type doggie!!! Those are so cute of them all.  |
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The girl, Tara, who met Jennifer, also saw Jon at the Stand Up To Cancer telethon. Picture of him can be seen at her blog and here's what she had to say:
Quote: Was being very sweet and patiently waited his turn to address the press, with which he shared the fact that his mother died 30 years ago of cancer. Terrible. |
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