Ashton Kutcher: Playing Steve Jobs was "terrifying"
Actor Ashton Kutcher attends the "jOBS" premiere during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, at Eccles Center Theatre on January 25, 2013 in Park City, Utah. / Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
PARK CITY, Utah Ashton Kutcher says playing Steve Jobs on screen "was honestly one of the most terrifying things I've ever tried to do in my life."
The 34-year-old actor helped premiere the biopic "jOBS" Friday, which was the closing-night film at the Sundance Film Festival.
Kutcher plays the Apple Inc. founder from the company's humble origins in the 1970s until the launch of the first iPod in 2001. A digital entrepreneur himself, Kutcher said he considers Jobs a personal hero.
"He's a guy who failed and got back on the horse," Kutcher said. "I think we can all sort of relate to that at some point in life."
Kutcher even embodied the Jobs character as he pursued his own high-tech interests off-screen.
"What was nice was when I was preparing for the character, I could still work on product development for technology companies, and I would sort of stay in character, in the mode of the character," he said. "But I didn't feel like I was compromising the work on the film by working on technology stuff because it was pretty much in the same field."
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But playing the real-life tech icon who died in 2011 still felt risky, he said, because "he's fresh in our minds."
"It was kind of like throwing myself into this gauntlet of, I know, massive amounts of criticism," Kutcher said, adding that he expects some might take issue with the film's depiction of the facts.
The actor watched "hundreds of hours of footage," listened to Jobs' past speeches and interviewed several of his friends to prepare for the role.
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Especially when Steve had that diet for decades and was used to it. Ashton didn't think even for a moment that adopting that diet would be an extreme shock to his body's system? And then when finished.. revert back to his usual diet and shock the system again? How the hell does that help you "Act" like Steve any better?
If you could Act in the first place.. you wouldn't need to resort to this right?
As Maureen Tkacik reported in Reuters' The Book of Jobs: "Steve Jobs smelled so foul that none of his co-workers at Atari in the seventies would work with him. Entreating him to shower was usually futile; he'd inevitably claim that his strict vegan diet had rid him of body odor."
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/02/22/the-book-of-steve-jobs-apple/
http://saucymugwump.blogspot.com/2012/12/microsoft-puts-on-appy-face-for-windows.html
I'm sorry that Kutcher things works is hard.
Ashton Kutcher is a great actor, able to embody any character, including of the enigmatic Steve Jobs.
"au revoir"
There is no such thing as a "pancreas level". I think he means blood sugar or insulin levels because the pancreas secretes insulin into the bloodstream to normalise blood sugar levels. I also find it difficult to believe that would put him into hospital unless he has diabetes.
These actors are just that. Everything that they say is questionable as to the truth, and is often said for publicity.
And politicians.
For the same core reason.