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Michael Cera on Finally Working With Wes Anderson and His ‘Phoenician Scheme’ Character’s ‘Very Silly’ Accent: ‘It Took All of Us a Minute to Feel Normal About It’
Michael Cera on finally working with Wes Anderson on 'The Phoenician Scheme,' developing the character of Bjorn and his upcoming directorial debut.
With his offbeat humor and awkward charm, it’s shocking that this is the first time the “Scott Pilgrim” and “Barbie” actor is stepping into Anderson’s whimsical, colorful world. However, Cera’s patience was more than redeemed with his scene-stealing role in “The Phoenician Scheme” as Bjorn, the quirky tutor of Benicio del Toro’s wealthy businessman who gets roped into a globe-trotting adventure alongside his estranged daughter Liesl (Mia Threapleton). Wes turned me on to this amazing French entomologist named [Jean-Henri] Fabre, who was kind of a controversial figure in the field when he was publishing his materials just because he was very strange and he conducted all his own experiments.
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