![]() ![]() ![]() Playing the father of two who, along with a number of others in a small suburb in New York, have survived a rapturesque depletion of the populace, Theroux’s character is a star turn and one that finally seems to put his myriad talents together. Beginning this month, the 42-year-old from D.C., who has clearly made peace with his tabloid fame on the arm of fiancée Jennifer Aniston, headlines a talented ensemble in Damon Lindelof‘s adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel The Leftovers, a series Lindelof co-created with Perrotta for HBO. But if he has been long working at the fringes of stardom, Theroux has also been weaving himself into the process of filmmaking, establishing himself behind the camera as much as he has eschewed starring roles. Among these early works, Zoolander is perhaps emblematic in that it launched a lasting creative partnership with director/star Ben Stiller, whom he’d go on to collaborate with on Duplex (2003), Tropic Thunder, and the forthcoming Zoolander 2, which Theroux will direct. It is a wildly disparate bunch, seemingly linked only by the breadth of Theroux’s interests and abilities-or even what you might call a vision. Up to that point, he had made mostly small, quirky, albeit memorable, appearances in movies and television, including those in Mary Harron’s films I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and American Psycho (2000), a couple of turns on Sex and the City, and in the camp hits Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997) and Zoolander (2001). In retrospect, Kesher is also a somewhat prophetic portrait of Theroux’s own multifaceted career to come: as an A-list scriptwriter (of Tropic Thunder, 2008, with Ben Stiller and Etan Cohen Iron and Rock of Ages, 2012, with Chris D’Arienzo and Allan Loeb), director (of Dedication, 2007, starring Billy Crudup as a neurotic children’s book writer), and sleek (not seedy), style-conscious celebrity who has managed to navigate the upper echelons of the business while still maintaining his art cred.Īt the time of its release, Theroux’s presence in Mulholland Drive was wholly in keeping with his unpredictable career. Within the movie, he acts simultaneously as an avatar for Lynch, and as a send-up of the archetypal Hollywood director. Theroux’s slick-unto-the-point-of-seedy Adam Kesher thinks of himself as an artist, but functions more as a middleman in the fame factory. ![]() Like much of the movie, Theroux’s performance is a gleeful mix of after-school-special dramatics and surrealism, bending the world back on itself. In 2001, Justin Theroux popped up in David Lynch‘s weird, Hollywood-set hallucination Mulholland Drive, playing a self-important filmmaker caught in the powerful gnarls of the business. I WOULD BE LIKE, ‘WHAT IS THIS MAGICAL FUCKING PLACE?’ Justin Theroux I REMEMBER SEEING TOY COMMERCIALS, FOR MATCHBOX OR RC CARS, AND THERE’D BE THESE KIDS WHO HAD BACKYARDS WITH MOUNDS OF DIRT AND PALM TREES. ![]()
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