Zooey & Joe Interview

November 29th, 2009 • By Kelly • Interview, Media, Zooey

MTV News did an interview with Zooey & (500) Days of Summer co-star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Zooey talks about the release date for She & Him’s second record (in Spring) and other future projects.

MTV: You guys are here for a special reason today. We’re taking a look back at the things we’re thankful for this year, and thanks to your work individually and in “(500) Days of Summer,” you are two of the people we are most thankful for. Do you have a speech prepared?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Uh, no. Should I?
Zooey Deschanel: I knew to have a speech! No, I didn’t. I’m excited though.

MTV: This isn’t the first blush with success for either of you, but does 2009 feel like a particularly special year?
Gordon-Levitt: I think so. 2009 started at Sundance for me. “(500) Days of Summer” premiered there, and that was the first time everybody saw it. And a short film I made called “Sparks” played at Sundance, and then Barack Obama became president, which was one of the more cathartic, emotionally reinforcing, positive experiences I’ve really ever had. It feels like a special year.
Deschanel: It’s a very special year. It’s the end of the aughts, which is sad.
Gordon-Levitt: The end of the aughts! Thank you, I’ve been looking for the name of this decade, and I haven’t known what it was.

MTV: So, for you especially, Zooey, the aughts were essentially the decade when you came of age as an actress, when you essentially got started. Is it bittersweet to see your first decade as an actress come to an end?
Deschanel: It’s exciting. I have to say, Sundance 2001, Joe and I had to be there with “Manic.” I’ve been so lucky to work with Joe twice. Book-ending the aughts. And hopefully, it will be more frequent.
Gordon-Levitt: Into the teens. And the ’20s.
Deschanel: And the ’20s and the ’30s and ’40s and the ’50s. And we’ll live to a million by that point, because they’ll have all kinds of drugs to keep us alive.
Gordon-Levitt: Of course, because we’ll be cyborgs.

Read the interview in full here.

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