Michael Cera explains why he tried to limit his fame earlier in his career, and how it led him to refuse a role in a major franchise.
The actor made a recent appearance on The Podcast Louis TherouxWhere the host asked him if he had deliberately “resisted franchises” when he undertakes projects.
“I don’t think I have a franchise resistance. I think I know what you are referring to,” said Cera. “I think I refused once. Yeah, I did it. It was a Harry Potter A, Fantastic animals. I don’t even know if I was offered, I think I just refused to get involved with her because – well, I think it would probably be a six -year commitment or something. But also, as we were talking earlier, I made a conscientious choice to limit my exhibition a little, or simply try to be a little more in control. »»
“And I wanted to do, especially films from little children, I was a great fear of doing things that I would become a little too famous,” he admitted. Cera became famous after playing in Hit 2007 films Superbad And Junoas well as for its role in Development stopped.
THE Barbie Star did not share what role in 2016 Fantastic animals and where to find them He was in talks, but the prequel Harry Potter Ayed Eddie Redmayne as an English sorcerer Newt Scamander. Two other films in the Fantastic animals The franchise was also published in 2018 and 2022.
“I think that has changed a little. I think I have been going beyond this particular feeling,” said Cera about the place where he is currently with famous franchises and films. “But I think that’s what it was at that time. If a franchise came now and seemed interesting, I don’t think it’s a franchise, I would leave the office, the storm out of the office or anything.”
Elsewhere during his conversation with Louis Theroux, the actor admitted that he was not “really very very” and “did not know how to create borders in a healthy manner”, especially during his first days of early action in adolescence.
Cera said he “sometimes reacted badly to his recognition” by fans in public and “would” go into leakage mode because I had a kind of SSPT “.
“I was also in Los Angeles, and I find that Los Angeles is a bit extreme for that. I feel a real Spotlight syndrome in Los Angeles, even now,” he said. “You feel very exposed, and I was 19 years old and suddenly much more recognizable from one day to the next, and that shocked me or something.
