Ep. 63: Jason Reitman: From Outback Steakhouse to the Oscars

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on TIFF Long Take, Rob and Geoff sit down with director and screenwriter Jason Reitman. Although only 40 years old, Reitman already seems like a seasoned veteran in Hollywood, with four Oscar nominations to his name as well an impressive filmography of critical and commercial successes like '</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juno', 'Up in the Air', and 'Young Adult'</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. His latest film, '</span><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tully'</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, starring Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis is in theaters now.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reitman talks about his unglamorous beginnings in filmmaking, the unlikely benefactors of his first movie, '</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank You For Smoking',</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and his frequent collaborations with screenwriter Diablo Cody.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also talks about his success casting relatively unknown actors like Ellen Page and Anna Kendrick, why he continues to pursue theatrical distribution rather than going the Netflix route, and who he would cast in hypothetical remakes of '</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jaws', 'Thelma and Louise',</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> 'Harold and Maude'.</span></em></p> <p> </p>