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\"Jess<\/a>Ever since \u201cTeeth\u201d hit Sundance back in 2007, actress Jess Weixler has been in the spotlight while also flying under the radar, choosing smaller, independent projects, letting her sink her teeth, no pun intended, into meatier roles and get the opportunity to work in the most appealing environments. Well, the abandoned mental hospital she shot \u201cThe Normals<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is wasn\u2019t particularly appealing, but after a major redesign courtesy of a top-notch art department, it was all beagles, mind games and a ton of mints.<\/p>\n

Weixler stars as Gretchen, the sole female in a group of people opting to spend a couple of weeks at a drug testing facility to earn some quick cash – well, in addition to other activities. Gretchen follows the rules, taking her pills, giving blood and eating her meals as required, but in her free time, she enjoys taking advantage of being the only lady on team green, much to Billy\u2019s (Bryan Greenberg) dismay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Normals\u201d already wrapped its run at the Cinema Village in New York City, but you can pop this little gem of a comedy whenever you\u2019d like courtesy of iTunes, Amazon, Movies On Demand and more. In honor of the VOD release, I had the opportunity to chat with Weixler herself about life as a drug test subject, her hopes to make her directorial debut, our hair woes and more. Check it all out in the interview below.<\/p>\n

Ever since \u201cTeeth\u201d I\u2019ve been expecting you to make some big move, like join the cast of a superhero movie or something, but you\u2019ve stuck to pretty modest projects. Can you tell me a little bit about your decision making process? How do you choose your roles?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nJess Weixler:<\/B> I spent a lot of time in the last few years reading scripts and looking at the characters and seeing if it was something interesting that I would have fun playing, something I hadn\u2019t done before. Every now and then you read a script and you just think it\u2019s beautiful and the character is interesting, but you feel great about the movie as a whole, and sometimes it feels like it\u2019s more about the characters that you get to play. In this one it\u2019s a real ensemble comedy. I just thought the characters would be really fun for us all to mess with our dynamic with each other. That\u2019s sort of how I chose this one.<\/p>\n

\"Jess<\/a><\/p>\n

I found that interesting. It\u2019s certainly an ensemble, but Bryan\u2019s character is still front and center. While being part of an ensemble, are you doing anything to highlight his character?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI feel like the purpose my character serves was to give Bryan\u2019s character a false beam of light. He\u2019s searching for meaning in his life because he\u2019s so lost and wayward \u2013 all of us are, really, because none of us have jobs. We\u2019re like those weird people who can take several weeks out of their life and go do something bizarre like drug testing, so I feel like I served like a false start. Like he thought, \u2018Oh, maybe I can see this girl on the outside. Maybe this is a real thing. Maybe this is something that could be real for me,\u2019 but I wasn\u2019t that person because I was really just interested in getting a bunch of attention from all of the guys. [Laughs] So he then has to make a sharp left and try to find meaning somewhere else and clearly he does it in the wrong place. <\/p>\n

And how about Gretchen in particular? We definitely get a clear sense of what she\u2019s out for in the movie, but what about before? Did the book have any backstory for her in it or did you come up with anything of your own?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI sort of just figured she\u2019s one of those free spirits. What I liked about playing this role is she\u2019s quite predatory and sexual. I think I tend to get cast fairly innocent, accept for Teeth. Usually there\u2019s a twist at the end or something. [Laughs] But I guess with her backstory, I knew she had to be messed up in some way to be having all this time off. But maybe that\u2019s the wrong thing to say. I felt like she knew what she was doing and she was one of the most clearheaded of the group there. She agreed to do this thing for money, she thought it would be fun to go and be in a group with a bunch of guys and get a lot of attention and then quickly realized she was on placebos so she wasn\u2019t feeling anything. She probably was like Bryan there, looking for some meaning in her life and didn\u2019t really find it until she met the guys who were breaking the dogs out of the nearby building. She didn\u2019t come planning to be part of this escape-the-dogs squad, but then I think halfway there, probably sometime after she met Bryan, she was like, \u2018Oh, what I actually want to be doing is be part of this really cool squad of dog savers.\u2019<\/p>\n

I feel like you should just take the slow motion shot of you carrying the beagle at the end, and make that your entire reel.<\/FONT><\/B>
\n[Laughs] It\u2019s really funny to see you and everybody else moving in slow motion when you\u2019re running.<\/p>\n

\"Jess<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a great montage at the end!<\/FONT><\/B>
\nThe movie definitely goes bananas at a certain point. It\u2019s such a strange movie in that way. [Laughs] It doesn\u2019t follow the rules of normal moviemaking, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

How did you guys go about making this? It\u2019s a pretty low budget film I imagine, so that one main location must have been a major plus. You didn\u2019t actually stay there, did you?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nOh, lord, no! That place was terrifying! It\u2019s an abandoned mental institution. I think some buildings are still working, but I don\u2019t know how many buildings there are. I\u2019m gonna guess like 70, or something like that. It\u2019s a large facility with a bunch of squatters in nearby buildings. Our incredible set design team, which I give like 50% of the credit for the whole movie, came in and cleaned out what was essentially, to me, seemed like a scary, haunted, abandoned, filled with squatters, old mental institution with medical equipment still everywhere. The hospital beds were everywhere and machinery. It was crazy! <\/p>\n

I never would have guessed!<\/FONT><\/B>
\nThey get so much credit! It was like the best edition of Home Makeover you\u2019ve ever seen. They were sweeping out what were probably dead animals. It was awful!<\/p>\n

The squatters must have really appreciated that!<\/FONT><\/B>
\nYeah! We left them with a better home. [Laughs]<\/p>\n

So how about your shooting schedule? Did you get it done pretty quickly?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI think we did. I don\u2019t think it was too long of a shoot. I want to say it was around a month. I don\u2019t remember exactly. Since I wasn\u2019t the lead of this one, I didn\u2019t have to be there the whole time. It was easier on me than say something like \u201cTeeth\u201d or \u201cPeter and Vandy\u201d where you\u2019re there like 24 hours a day, every day \u2013 or it feels like that. This one was more relaxed for me personally, but I\u2019m sure Bryan got exhausted on the shoot.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

What was the prep process like? I\u2019ve always wondered what goes down in these testing facilities. Did you get to learn about that at all?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nYeah, I looked into it a little bit and there were certain things that I was just like, I\u2019m just gonna defer to the book on this because the truth is they separate men and women in those drug facilities. They don\u2019t put you in the same group with men and women so you can\u2019t go all college dorm style like we did. I think as it goes, half of the people are on placebos and half aren\u2019t, and people are trying to figure out who\u2019s actually being affected [laughs], which would be fascinating.<\/p>\n

And I assume you guys were just taking sugar pills while shooting?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nOh, yeah. I think they were little mints. [Laughs] We were popping tiny mints and probably went on sugar overload a few times.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t sound that bad, but when you think about how many times you take the pills in the movie and how many takes you must have done for each, that\u2019s gotta be a lot of mints.<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI think we did the pill sequences all in like one or two days, so it was maybe just those two days that we got a little too much sugar in our bodies. [Laughs]<\/p>\n

How about some of the tests you guys do in the movie? Did you give any a shot for real? I know that one where you\u2019ve got to move the metal ring around the rod always drives me insane at carnivals.<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI don\u2019t think they actually do that stuff in real life. I would be surprised. But it was really fun to do and I can see how it would be a good test to see who\u2019s still sharp and who\u2019s not. But some people are just bad at those games, and some people are actually good at them! I didn\u2019t mind sitting there for a little while playing those games with my friends.<\/p>\n

\"Jess<\/a> <\/p>\n

I love those shots of you guys working at the tests where the camera\u2019s tracking across the table.<\/FONT><\/B>
\nYeah, I liked shooting those, too. If I\u2019m correct, I think you have to have maybe for SAG reasons, you have to do at least one day on a set as opposed to a location and that was our one set was that room. That was the one thing that we created out of nowhere, maybe in a warehouse or something.<\/p>\n

Another shot I found kind of interesting, that one at the beginning on the bus when Billy is talking to Rodney and you\u2019re in the forefront obscuring the frame. I feel like there might have been something awkward for you with that blocking.<\/FONT><\/B>
\n[Laughs] I knew when I turned my head that they would kind of be able to see me because they wanted to establish that we were beginning to make eye contact early on, but I don\u2019t think I realized how much I was in the frame. If I did realize I probably would have been even more uncomfortable. [Laughs] You don\u2019t want your head so big on a screen.<\/p>\n

I totally know what you mean. I probably would have been checking the monitor and futzing with my bangs the whole time. Speaking of which, I feel like I can track your shooting schedule based on the length of your bangs. You totally shot this after \u201cFree Samples.\u201d<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI did shoot it after \u201cFree Samples!\u201d I shot them both within like three months of each other. [Laughs] Good call! I moved away from bangs after that and it makes life a little easier without bangs, but now I miss them! <\/p>\n

I try all the time. I get them to grow to my nose and then I chicken out and cut them back.<\/FONT><\/B>
\nAll women understand the struggle!<\/p>\n

\"Jess<\/a><\/p>\n

From bangs back to movies, what\u2019s next for you? You\u2019ve got a bunch of things in post, but any new projects you\u2019ve got your eye on?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nIt\u2019s gonna take some time, but there\u2019s something that I want to direct next and it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve written so hopefully I will make that happen next year. I\u2019m sort of squatting and writing and getting that worked out right now. And I love the two movies that I shot this year, \u201cLook of Love\u201d and \u201c[The Disappearances of] Eleanor Rigby,\u201d so I\u2019m very excited to see how those turn out. The cast in both of those that I got to be around and work with were inspiring.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the plan for \u201cEleanor Rigby?\u201d Are they going to release both at the same time?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI\u2019m not sure. I think so, but I don\u2019t know. I think so. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re trying to figure that out, too.<\/p>\n

I imagine it\u2019d be a conflict at the box office, but the idea of releasing two movies, each offering a different perspective on the same story and letting moviegoers pick the one they want to see sounds so interesting.<\/FONT><\/B>
\nYeah, it\u2019s like an experiment at this point because it hasn\u2019t been done.<\/p>\n

And how about you directing? Are you doing any prep or directing 101 with people you\u2019ve worked with before?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nNo, I\u2019m sort of talking to some of my friend who I\u2019ve worked with. My buddy Josh [Leonard] directed \u201cThe Lie\u201d and the whole cast storyboarded it together and it was interesting watching him do it and it sort of made me realize, \u2018Oh, yeah, I think I can do this.\u2019 I\u2019ve been on so many independent film sets at this point that I have faith I\u2019ll be able to at east handle myself on the other side of the camera. But, you know, I don\u2019t want to put the cart before the horse because raising money is an uphill battle. Until I have the green light on this I can\u2019t talk about it too much. I\u2019ve gotta have a green light and my car. [Laughs]<\/p>\n

How about after working on \u201cThe Normals\u201d though? Is there any one specific thing you learned while making this movie that you might do or not do on your own?<\/FONT><\/B>
\nI don\u2019t know. I wouldn\u2019t specifically say that working on \u201cThe Normals\u201d that there was something that changed with me about it. It felt like a fun independent movie, sort of in the world of some of the other fun, take-a-risk independent movies I\u2019ve been on. Every time I get on a set I respect the director though. Every time I see a director have to juggle all the balls and negotiate everybody\u2019s artistic visions, I respect that so it sort of just went in line with being impressed by those around me and dealing with multiple creative personalities. <\/p>\n

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