Hi!, I have today an interview of John Cusack, in a newspaper of my country (El Pais). I try to traslate it, with BabelFish (sorry
), I have it in spanish if you prefer to translate by yourself
. Here is the interview (I try to find too the pic of the interview, John is really hot!).
A cynical charmer
Tanning in the independent cinema, John Cusack was during years eternal secondary. Today, mordacious and descreído, carries out with equal soltura ` thriller' of terror and a drama on the war of Iraq. In the long run it can be better to resist in the second row. John Cusack (Illinois, the U.S.A., 1966) did not rob the protagonist to Rob Lowe nor to Andrew McCarthy. But almost thirty years after making debut in films like Class, Sixteen candles or Account with me, its race is between most interesting of a generation that was born in the eighty and it was lost in the ninety. While the adolescents sighed with the angelical beauty of their companions of distribution, Cusack invented a mask able to hold the difficult erosion of the time.
The excess of centers hurt - in some cases, of death to great part of the call Brat Pack, the group of puppies of Hollywood that was born in the shade of neons of the eighty, the heaters fucsia, the lacquer and the shoulder reinforcements. With his aspect of cynical charmer, John Cusack remained in a discreet site. If nobody sees too much you, nobody can hacerte too much damage. That one was the philosophy of an actor who detests any sign of celebrity openly. In 1984, Cusack, member of a saga of actors and actresses tanned in the independent cinema and the theater, made debut like companion of institute of Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy in Class. The film, whose visionado it is today almost unbearable, became a youthful success of the time. A species of gamberro-erotic-romantic Mrs. Robinson in whom Jacqueline Bisset interpreted to one cuarentona that it put in the bed the best friend (McCarthy) of his son (Lowe). Between as much sonrosada cheek, Cusack absorbed plane. Commanding a nihilismo typically high school, smoked porros and played poker, other people's to the tragedy that flew over the campus. To the actor it does not like to remember its beardless past.
Today, seated in a sofa of a hotel of the London Soho, with service cap, a capuchino cold in the table and big cold (or what is) , it has the pale and dull face and few desire of conversation. It releases two films (1408 and Grace is gone), of which she is absolute protagonist. It takes all the morning working, and receives fallen down, with the feet on the table and a crude symphony of yaws and nasal noises.
In ` 1408' interprets to a writer of guides of enchanted hotels who does not believe in encantamientos, and ` Grace is gone, a preservative father of family who creates completely without information in the Administration of Bush and the necessity of the war of Iraq. Both are mistaken. Yes. For that reason they are good personages, stimulating. When the film begins, they are in a place; when it finishes, in very different other.
` 1408' is a terror film. Although its race is very eclectic, it is a sort that had touched little. It is a sort that I like like spectator.
Believe in the supernatural thing? Yes.
Yes? In what? Then in something... Why no?
His personage in ` 1408' is militant descreído. Usually are thanked for personages. In the end, yes they create in something. When you do not have anything to lose, always desire something.
It produces and it carries out ` Grace is gone, the history of a conservative who faces the loss of his woman in the front and its incapacity to assume the defeat and the loss.
Accepts the term ` cinema políticó? No. Let us say that one is an elegant form to enter the political reality, but noncinema openly politician. It is not of rights nor of lefts, but that it tries to play elsewhere.
But what has of bad in speaking of political cinema? In the United States, the things are complicated. There are two boxes. Half of the population is placed within one, and other half, within the other. From them the others are shouted an a. Everything is used like the ammunition, and for that reason I believe that there is to look for places outside those boxes to arrive at the people who are in the two. Let us speak of cinema humanist, who yes can break the boxes.
It observes some change in his country? In the substantial thing, no. People are changing, but not the structure of being able nor mass media. In that sense we are more corrupt than ever. But certain reactions are intuited at least, among them the one that has caused a wave of films against the war of Iraq. Something moves, but he is minority. The label ` cinema humanistá, does not seem to him a little soft? It seems to me that it is not badly a place to begin with. It is a good site to begin to emit ideological judgments. To be placed in corsés directly ideological takes to that a very important part of the spectators, those of rights, feels in the armchair with all its prejudices. I believe that cinema can be made political of very subtle form, and of that way to make it effective and much more subversive.
It knows firm believers in the occupation of Iraq; preservative types like Stanley, its personage? Yes.
Where it has known them? Here and there. The only material of an actor is people. My work consists of investigating personalities. The one of Stan, although it is a strange type, it responds to the archetype of man of middle-class of my country.
It does not believe in introspectivos methods? No. I prefer people. To act is something that happens and that also is rationalized, but I try not to think much about the methods. He is only something that leaves. It would not know to say much more.
As it recognizes a good project? It must be challenging, exciting and rare. I like the rare projects. It seems that you have had enough control on your race. It has rejected many films of study, some very known. I do what it seems to me interesting. I let myself take, without philosophies. It always knew it so clearly? Even of adolescent? I have only tried to make good decisions, to make things very different and at all costs to avoid something that worries to me much: to bore to me.
, I wanted to do a proper introduction but i couldn´t help to reply right now 
) Im sure Im not the only one here who is Spanish or knows Spanish, so I think it would be helpful to have the Spanish version of this interview as well, I live in Spain and I cannot believe I missed this interview!!! 
