John Cusack

You're

like, it's John Cusack.

I've said this many times.

I

ended up loving that movie.

But the first scene, I didn't realize he was playing Brian Wilson yet.

Because I'm like, that's John Cusack.

What is John Cusack doing in the Beach Boys movie? And then I realized...

Special for you.

This is an interview special with the actor and writer John Cusack.

I met him on Friday here in New York City down at his publicist's office downtown in New York.

I mean, it's a new graphic novel out called Momo with artist Ignacio No, fantastic Argentinian artist.

And yeah, I look forward to following up in the near future with other work.

But let's get right into it.

Here are John Cusack and I chatting away about Momo and more.

I'm honored to be here with John Cusack.

It's the Baltimore Film Breakdown Podcast Instant Analysis episode, Sunday, September 20th, 7.33 p.m. My name is Jake Luke.

I'm joined on my screen by Spencer Nathaniel Schultz, and I feel a little bit like John Cusack in the movie 1408. he's in the haunted hotel room and it feels like an eternity and he's stuck in there and then he finally gets out but then it turns out that he never actually got out of the hotel room he's still in that kind of horror movie and then he you know ultimately he did it's uplifting depending on which ending you get i think there are alternate endings but ultimately he gets out will we get out of it i'm not sure but it feels like we're back in 1408 and samuel jackson is telling us it's an evil room and we should get out uh how's it going tonight my friend

It's going well.

Who do we blame now, right? It was Harbaugh.

And Jimmy Fallon, I love three of these four.

Queen Latifah, Conan O'Brien, John Cusack, and Carl Anthony Towns.

So there you have it.

Not a Queen Latifah

I mean, it seems pretty easy.

So we have John Cusack, who is Ed limo driver.

I love his sister, Joan

Deborah.

And I kind of like Rebecca Desmonet, even though she was such a bitch in this.

She's the actress.

She was the one who hired John Cusack as the limo driver.

Right.

Is it Runaway Jury? Is that it? Or was it Runaway Jury or Runaway Juror or something? I feel like I look at my life through the prism of movies I've seen 20 years ago.

But I think it's got John Cusack in it.

Come on, help me out here.

Who's in it? Runaway Jury, John Grisham.

Runaway Jury, I'm right, starring John Cusack, right? And who else? There's somebody else, some other big actor, 2003.

Josh, why don't you watch something from this decade? Gene Hackman, that's right.

Gene Hackman is in it.

John Cusack and Gene Hackman.

on the other day.

John Cusack, Demi Moore.

Right.

Yeah.

I think it was trying to be a monkey's paw type story where the main character initially presents as a kind of underdog.

male character that you're used to seeing in John Cusack movies of the 80s.

Sometimes the story works out that he's attracted to the wrong person.

Sometimes it's that with the right recipe of changing of looks or behavior or whatever, he's able to get the girl that he's dreaming of or lusting after.