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Shocker: Adam Goldberg and Julie Delpy Are Smart and Witty!

Thu., Aug. 9, 2007 2:14 PM PDT by Caroline Kepnes

Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, 2 Days in Paris

Samuel Goldwyn Films

Can you imagine directing your ex-boyfriend in a movie? And what if said movie was a character study that centered largely on you and him? And what if your parents were in it too? And what if you and your parents spoke a different language?

Well, after seeing 2 Days in Paris, I’m convinced that we should all hunt down our former lovers and make movies together. Of course, this would be a better plan if we could get Julie Delpy to write, direct and edit them. Yep, you know I love this movie. And I think Adam Goldberg has finally gotten the chance to really show what he can do as an actor.

I’m ready to hunt down New Yorker critic Anthony Lane at the Condé Nast building. This is what he said about Paris: “It isn’t a vanity piece. It’s an insanity piece.” Anthony baby, you’re the insane one! This movie is amazing.

And here are the high points of an amazingly entertaining time spent with Delpy and Goldberg.

I will file the rest of the transcripts in a gilded cabinet as part of my shrine to Paris. Kidding, sort of.

They're Making a Trilogy, and They Don't Even Know It! The two met when Adam cast Julie in a pilot called True Love, in which they played a bickering Franco-American couple with problems and proceeded to date (and presumably bicker) for a year and a half. And 2 Days in Paris works the same fertile turf. If history repeats itself, they will reteam in 2017 or so for another project about a Franco-American couple prone to bickering!

They're Comfortable with Their Romantic Lives, Not Showy: Delpy is downright funny when she talks about her love life. She never dated. She finds dating “weird,” and she is horrified that speed dating is finally making its way to France. Goldberg, who’s in a relationship with Christina Ricci, mentions her in passing, referring to her as “my girlfriend.” It’s casual, and he doesn’t tell us that they have the PERFECT RELATIONSHIP AND ARE SO VERY HAPPY. Oh, grounded celebrities, I treasure you so.

They're Not Bitter. Much: Talk turns to Goldberg’s previous work with David Fincher, and he launches into a story about being offered a role in Panic Room, how badly he wanted it, how much he admired Fincher. Alas, no. “I was doing this TV show where I uprooted my entire life and moved to New York so it could get canceled after nine episodes.” Ha! Delpy is equally low-key when she giggles and tells us how her agent fired her because she had been spending nine years working on the script for Before Sunset. Oh, she deserves to laugh all the way to the Academy Luncheon for Nominees.

They Fight Well: It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to go, Hmmm, a movie where a flighty woman in glasses tries desperately to bring out the wildness in her neurotic, hypochondriac boyfriend—this sounds like Woody Allen! Indeed, this is a movie Woody Allen would have made were he still in touch with young love. But Goldberg was adamant about the need to strive for a unique voice.

“She was really married to the hypochondriac thing. This is something we sort of went back and forth on a bit,” he says. “And I said, 'Okay, but this can’t be the basis of this character.' It’s fine. I possess a lot of these characteristics. The character is an exaggerated version of me, but it was important for me, personally, and for the sake of the film to show other sides of this guy...Anything that seemed too easily identifiable as a type, I really fought hard to find another side to that character.”

Gloves off, guys. It worked.