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Mike Judge, the physics major who gave the world “Beavis and Butthead,” directs his latest comedy movie, “Extract.” |
Mike Judge is an unassuming guy responsible, say some, for the ultimate dumbing-down of the American entertainment world. He created those animated characters “Beavis and Butthead.”
Since then, Judge has written and directed the cult comedy “Office Space” (1999), the underrated futuristic comedy “Idiocracy” (2006) and his current comedy “Extract,” starring Jason Bateman as a put-upon owner of a small extract factory.
I sat down to chat with Judge about his new film, studio bosses and being a physics major in college.
Q. The guy in “Extract” seems custom-made for Bateman. Did you write the character with him in mind?
A. I had started writing it a long time ago and put it on the shelf. Then, I’d seen Jason Bateman while he was doing “Arrested Development,” so when I was doing a rewrite, I was imagining him. Otherwise, I wasn’t imagining any particular actor for the characters. (Read more…)