CELEBRITY POP QUIZ: 'Management' star Steve Zahn

Most recognizable as a wisecracking sidekick ("Sahara," "Daddy Interval Care," "National Security"), Zahn has broadened into bounteous brooding flicks, close this year's crime-scene dramedy "Sunshine Cleaning" and the latest "Management." In the film, which opened Friday, he plays thirtysomething man-child Mike, a motel gaffer who has a adore concern with a travelling saleswoman visitor played by Jennifer Aniston. Zahn's bodily entity is decidedly disparate from that of his character.

He lives on a farm good away Lexington, Ky., Robyn Peterman, further an actor, and their two girlish children. This was a ardor project for you. I comprehend you indeed felt connected to Mike as a character. Also so than, I think, any other script. It has a plenty to create with sensibility: this amiable of callow guy, identical honest, all heart of stumbling into things. I've never had a certain skillful plan.

I've always been delighted with where I was much whether where I was wasn't all that impressive to someone else. You trained at the American Rep in Boston and your background is theater. This film was handled nearly passion a filmed play. It's delirious that there's no rehearsals in movies usually.

However this one, we had a week where we sat all day: Jennifer, me and Steve employer Stephen Belber. We primarily honest sat and everybody else in the toss came in to rehearse. It wasn't your anterior epoch working with Jennifer Aniston, though. You played Phoebe Buffay 's Lisa Kudrow secret, leafy card-seeking spouse on an early chapter of "Friends." I had never done any TV and I was plopped into this environment of mortals who dependable appreciate everything.

There was this cartel of humans who were culminating friends for absolute and, for three days, you're pretending you're tool of it. It's dense as an actor - you're ideal self-conscious. On the other hand I too kinda knew Jennifer from a movie we did consequent called "The Thing of My Affection." We didn't bear a abundance of scenes together, nevertheless we hung elsewhere in the trailer and stuff.

She remembered me from those three days when we did that movie. She's that benevolent of person. Provided you had a discussion with her, three age from at once she'd remember. You must hold had a quota to enroll when you moved from Cutting edge Pullover to Kentucky, where your wife is from.

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