Seriously? OMG! WTF?

I was trying to get Christoph Waltz’s part, Landa. I was really running after that part. My agent, I think he terrorized Quentin to see me, kept talking about Landa. I really put my eggs in one basket. Every night I came home and put in five hours on Landa. I got French lessons, and I did about 27 hours on Landa’s character. Then I flew out to Berlin, then he [Quentin] goes, “Okay, let’s take a look at Hicox!” I was like, “Can we take a look at Landa also?” [laughs] He said, “No, I cast my Landa on Tuesday.” So I read the Hicox part pretty much cold. I thought I made a real bulls of everything. I remember I was terribly depressed that night. Then a week later, they called me up and offered me the job.

A big reason why he was probably so down is because he is a huge fan of QT’s, so working with him was something he has wanted to do since he was at least in his late teens.

When I was like 18, I got my fiends together and we put on a stage version of Reservoir Dogs in my local nightclub, so to actually get to work with him was a dream come true. Once I got beyond that, it is fascinating to watch the man work because he does really works in his own, unique way. He is so knowledgeable in film. He does his craft by absorbing all the information. He is an encyclopedia.

While QT might be an encyclopedia, as we know his movies does not follow what that big book has listed om how WWII ended and Fassbender told us he likes the changes.

Q: Being of German descent, what is it like being in a movie about World War II and Nazis?
MF: I thought it was pretty cool. I like Quentin because he won’t be restrained by the confines of history. We have seen this topic done so many times. I was like, “World War II her we go again.” This is maybe the film to end World War II films.

With all the recent WWII films that have been out there in the last few years, I kind of hope he is right. And IB is the definitely the movie to do it, not only because it changes history because it is just that monumental.
Fassbender is one of the few actors in the movie, who has worked on other WWII movies and here is what he told us was different than other movies based on the era.

I love the fact that French people are speaking French, German people are speaking German. I always thought that was weird when there are German people speaking English with German accents [speaking with thick German accent]. It is always like, “Well, why are they doing that?” It kind of burst the bubble of illusion immediately. I think it is great.

Personally I hate movies with subtitles, but with this one you forget when you are reading the screen and when you are listening to them to talk it is just that smooth of a transition.
Now back to Michael Fassbender when he is on the screen you just can’t take your eyes off of him and yes in person too. He just has that quality and the way he plays Lieutenant Archie Hicox is just so brilliant you just believe his character. He holds his own when he has his scene with Mike Myers and also in the infamous bar scene. A scene he told us took two weeks to film, and one you have to watch play out because it changes everything in the movie.
Next up for the hot actor is Jonah Hex, and I am going to see just because of him after his genius portrayal in Inglourious Basterds.

Well, first of all, not to give anything away, but one cool thing about the character that Quentin had always told me he had conceptualized for it was that he was frustrated with war movies where it’s very clear who’s going to live and who’s going to die. He wanted to play with audience expectations and focus on some people and kill them off and hide some people and have them emerge. He always thought it would be very funny to have the guy who’s supposed to get killed first make it to the end. I think that was where the surprise and the fun of Utivitch surviving for so long comes from.

I am not going to tell you if he lives or dies, but I will tell you he scalps a lot of heads for Brad Pitt. And he told us that they had to prep for that duty especially when one is not a fan of violent movies.

I thought I would hate it. I’m really not a fan of violence in movies. What I’ve always loved about Tarantino is the humor and the dialog and the characters. I don’t exactly cover my eyes to the violence but that’s not what I buy a ticket to see. So it was kind of odd to find myself in that part of a Tarantino movie, but that was my job and that was my homework. I had scalping lessons, I looked up scalping on the internet and after a while, it just became like a calculus test I wanted to get an A on. I hated calculus, too, but I was a good Jewish boy who did my homework and that’s who Utivitch was. I don’t think he wanted to scalp, but if that’s his homework assignment from Aldo, he’s damned if he’s not going to get an A. That’s how I approached it on the set.

To be honest IB is not that violent at all minus a few short scenes, so hopefully it wasn’t too bad for him to watch on the big screen. On that note the big screen works well for The Little Man or the name he thought suited him better The Medium Sized Man. Find out on Friday if the little guy who could makes it to the Inglourious Basterds credits.

Austin’s cereal…
Austin: So I was having to eat Cap’n Crunch in the scene, and I left for a second, and they filled it with salt. I didn’t want to eat it because it’s soggy and I don’t like soggy cereal, and then they were like, “Oh, no, it’s really good. Cap’n Crunch is really good soggy.” So I was like, “Okay, I’ll try it.” And so not only was it soggy, it was salty like crazy. So it was terrible.
Alexa: We were in the middle of shooting a scene a couple weeks ago, and we’re supposed to be eating breakfast at the table, and I was like, “Hey, Kurt, watch this.” And I totally unscrewed the salt lid, and I’m like pouring salt all over Austin’s cereal. And that was probably a bad idea because it suddenly unlocked this thing in his mind that that’s okay. “I didn’t know we could do that.” I was like, “Oh shoot, I probably shouldn’t have done that because we’re going to get in trouble now.”

The bra on Austin’s door…
Kurt: Well, I found a bra inside our dressing room. It’s like just right around this corner before we get to the stage. And I picked it up and I thought, “This will be—this gives me ideas.” So, I tape it to his door. And I wrote a note on the bra when I taped it. And it said, “Wardrobe said you dropped this. Your loving brother Ben.” I asked Alexa to take a look at it. She thought it was funny. It turns out it was her bra, so twice the funny. He’s going to be the jokester. He thinks he can retaliate, but no.

How Austin and Alexa protect themselves against little Kurt:
Austin: Last Friday, while we were doing the show, the audience was here, we had one scene in between our scenes that we were going to be in, and I saw him walking with this group of keys. And he had been warning me all day that he was going to get me. And I was like, “Oh, this can’t be good.” So I went to my room, and I hid in my bathroom. And sure enough, five minutes later him and four guys came in there, and Kurt’s like, “Oh, here’s the plan. We’re going to put all his furniture in the middle of the room.” And then they had this huge thing of Saran Wrap, and I came out and I screamed at him. And he’s like, “Oh. You got me.” So yeah. He was going to Saran Wrap all my furniture together.
Alexa: And my boyfriend shows up on set the next Friday after he heard about all these jokes going on, and Kurt was planning on playing another joke on Austin. And my boyfriend walks up to him, and he’s a producer, and he goes, “Listen, Kurt, I’m going to say this once. I know where to find 300 live tarantulas. Don’t think about messing with Alexa’s room. That’s all I’m saying.” And Kurt’s just like, “Yes sir,” and walk away. But yeah, I was just like what if he gets me? I don’t want to get messed with. I just want to be the one that helps him out. So we have a couple cool ideas that we’re going to try on poor Austin. He’s like the poor guy that gets picked on. But I’m sure I’ll end up getting hit one of these days.

Souds like Austin needs to be just as afraid of Alexa as he is of Kurt.
BTW besides playing jokes on each other, these three actors’ futures are really bright. Alexa Vega can sing and act and even though she has been doing this for a long time, she is still so sweet and respectful and unspoiled by Hollywood. Austin Butler is an up and coming teen idol as he should be because like Alexa he can sing and act, plus he has the hair that drives girls crazy. And then there is 13 year old Kurt Doss who is like the cutest thing ever. We all fell in love with this little man the second he started talking. He is funnier than most of the comedians that are 2, 3, 4 and 5 times his age.
Ruby and the Rockits is as fun to watch as it sounds like it to work on. So check it out tonight and every Tuesday night at 8:30p on ABC Family after 10 Things I Hate About You.

UPDATE: Stewie just posted another video trying to get his point across that Family Guy deserves the Emmy over The Office and Flight of the Concords. Seriously has anyone ever watched that HBO show?

UPDATE: Access Hollywood confirmed the she is indeed breeding again.

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