Juliette Lewis with Zach Galifianakis in Due Date. If you’ve spent any time with professional comedians, you know that the best ones are surprisingly unfunny in their private lives. So why shouldn’t the same thing be true of actors with a reputation for cinematic psychopathy? Take Juliette Lewis, whose film resume — from Cape Fear to Natural Born Killers to Whip It — reads like a rap sheet for antisocial behavior.

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And then there’s her music, first with the Licks (a name that sounds like the best post-punk band that Ari Up never fronted) and more recently with the New Romantiques (which, despite how it sounds, isn’t a tribute band that plays only covers of “What I Like About You”). Watching Lewis perform onstage, even if it’s just a, can be legitimately frightening. You can practically feel your jaw dislocating from her sucker punches. She’s like a female Iggy Pop, always seemingly on the verge of doing something explosive or self-destructive. It may just be an act, but like any of her movie roles, it’s a really, really convincing act. Leading up to my interview with Lewis, everybody I know, every friend and family member and casual acquaintance, all asked me the same thing: “Aren’t you nervous? She seems kind of crazy.” Their only evidence was a “gut feeling,” based on intuition and too many late nights watching Natural Born Killers on basic cable.

But the warnings happened so often that I actually did start to feel nervous. It didn’t help that I watched her latest films, Due Date (a screwball comedy) and Conviction (an Oscar-baiting courtroom drama), two very different movies in which she’s utterly believable as somebody you wouldn’t want to be left alone in the same room with. I also checked out her recent appearance, where Craig Ferguson admitted to Lewis, possibly with his tongue in cheek, “You scare me.” Lewis called me from Miami, as she was leaving the airport for her hotel. (I have no idea why she was in Florida, and she didn’t volunteer any details.) She was friendly and outgoing, far from the high-strung nut-job I’d been bracing myself for. Maybe if we’d been in the same room, she would’ve tried to bite me just to see the look on my face. But I kind of doubt it.

Eric Spitznagel: I just saw Conviction, and your character — and I guess you by extension — scared the shit out of me. Juliette Lewis: Oh, good. That was your intention? Well, no, not exactly. In my work, I’m always striving to be as honest as possible. The woman I play in Conviction, she’s based on a real person, and she was very complicated.

She just tells lies upon lies upon lies. But they’re all true to her, all her contradictory feelings. It was fun to play one of those people that you intuitively try to avoid on the street. Whatever I do, I’m always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I’m more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It’s where people sit in a dark theater.

I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show. I definitely had a visceral reaction, if only to your character’s oral hygiene. Yeah, her teeth are pretty gnarly. Gold miner joe apk free download. When you were getting fitted for those chompers, were you thinking, “Yeah, baby, it’s Oscar time?” Not in the slightest! You’ve got to understand, in this industry you’re conditioned for loss. So you learn never to have high expectations, because inevitably you’re going to be let down. I tend to follow that mantra, “Live in the moment, enjoy the experience.” I’ve never done anything this intense in the last decade.

I was scared and excited, and that’s always what brings the best out of you. But it’s got to at least be in the back of your mind. You’re playing a woman with spectacularly bad teeth and skin that’s got a hepatitis-y glow. Isn’t that a surefire way to get an Oscar nomination? I don’t know, is it? Well, didn’t get an Oscar for being easy on the eyes.