“Most people are just happy that I punched David Duchovny.”
– Madeline Zima
I actually met Madeline Zima in person at the South by Southwest film festival where her new film, Crazy Eyes, premiered in March. I ended up sitting right next to her as she took the reserved seat to my left. She was perfectly lovely and laughed throughout the film.
By midway through the film I was surprised she found it so funny though, considering many of the scenes involve what they call “Struggle Fucking.” It’s what it sounds like, you fuck someone even while they’re struggling against you. If Zima was in the scene and she was laughing, then I guess it’s okay to laugh.
Crazy Eyes is a semi-autobiographical film from writer/director Adam Sherman. Lukas Haas plays Zach, an aimless hard partying drinker who becomes obsessed with Rebecca (Zima.) He calls Rebecca “Crazy Eyes” and pines for her even though she’s made it clear she’s not interested in him, hence the struggle fucking.
Now that the film is out, I got to catch up with my movie date properly. Speaking by phone, Zima wasn’t quite as aggressive as her character in the movie, or certainly her character Mia Lewis on TV’s Californication. Zima actually revealed some vulnerable moments and had fun discussing the ins and outs of struggle fucking with me.
INTO: Coca Cola, Japan, cats, nerds, video games, tattoos, talking to interesting people, sleeping all day long, breakfast in bed, fashion, listening to music, singing in the shower, being left alone for a while, traveling.
NOT INTO: Snobs, closed-minded people, guys who should just shut their mouths before saying something unnecessary, having nothing to do, people that try to tell me what to do but have no fucking clue about me.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My cats, Coca Cola, my octopus plushie, internet, panties.
VICES: I bite my nails really bad but I’m trying to get better! And I’m a reaaaaally huge Potterhead. Beware of my massive amount of Potter knowledge! Also I have a huge shopping addiction when it comes to shoes.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Writing fan fiction, sewing clothing or cosplay, looking at pretty things on the internet, cuddling my kitties/bf, staring at the sky.
Today the news came out that NASA scientists have had their pants blown off by data showing nearly the ENTIRE Greenland ice sheet has melted. This news goes hand-in-hand with North Carolina’s recent decision to pass a law forbidding coastal towns from taking climate science into account when engineering their cities. This means they are legally obligated to remain ignorant of the sea level rise that will soon envelope them! …And somehow my video still brings it all back to vaginas. …Not sure how I managed that.
“What if the Devil was not the bad guy? Maybe he’s been painted in a wrong light. What if God was not so good?”
– Darren Lynn Bousman
Director Darren Lynn Bousman has been to hell and back getting his recent projects to the big screen. Since leaving the Saw franchise behind after helming films II, III and IV, he’s been forced to seek alternate routes to get his work seen. If necessity is the mother of invention, then Bousman’s latest Rocky Horror-inspired project, The Devil’s Carnival, is invention’s demented bastard child.
Bypassing traditional distribution channels entirely, Bousman took the first installment of his unique episodic cinematic rock opera direct to his considerable fan base via a rock & roll-style cross-country tour earlier this year. The film-cum-theatrical experience played to mostly sold-out houses packed with the willfully immersed, prompting an encore tour – the first date of which was at San Diego’s Comic Con. We caught up with Bousman by phone as he boarded the train back from the annual geek fest…