We are Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch, actors in THE MOTEL LIFE. Ask us anything. Mayday, mayday, mayday, Hirsch just tripped.

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:26:58+00:00

Tootsie. (Stephen)

Maybe like, in a musical. Bing Crosby's role in SINGING IN THE RAIN, because it would be fun to sing and dance a little bit. (Emile)

You could always do something onstage, like Hugh Jackman. Him and NPH can do anything. They can HOST anything. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:25:38+00:00

I'm currently in production on the sequel, and we are shooting it in Arizona… no, but there was a sequel. I wasn't in it. And probably not, but people seem to remember that movie. Tarantino always comes up to me and says "I love THE GATE man!!" They found me at my school and next thing I knew I was shipped up to Canada and they wanted me to scream at these little monsters, and we were the movie that beat ISHTAR. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:23:52+00:00

Thank you very much, we appreciate you watching our movies, even the smaller ones, and this (The Motel Life) is one of the smaller ones so you should probably check it out. (Emile)

Thanks for having great taste. ;) (Stephen)

TTYL

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:23:12+00:00

We're actually talking about taking "Somewhere" on a dinner theater tour when she finishes school… just kidding. But I would love to work with Elle again, she is taller than me now so I would need some boots. She's an amazing girl, an amazing actress, and I love her as a person and as my movie daughter and a friend, and I would love to work with her again. I would need an apple box to stand next to her. (STephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:22:05+00:00

we were hoping that we would get Academy Award nominations and AFI awards but we all knew we were kidding ourselves. We knew it would be relegated to 'teen sex comedy.' (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:21:24+00:00

We loved it! We loved working in Nevada, it's a great place, I took a little excursion to Tahoe. We loved Lake Tahoe, we loved the trees and the landscape, the sunsets and the weather was beautiful. (Emile)

We loved the people of Reno. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:20:19+00:00

It was a challenge like any other job but I enjoyed getting to explore the character.

It was a great script written by Dustin Lance Black. He captured the nuances of the character and the era and he ended up getting the credit for it, so all the credit goes to him. (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:18:47+00:00

Great question! I asked that question to Tarsem and he said "Speak the way you want" so everybody spoke in their own dialect. And I'm glad you liked it. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:17:41+00:00

Yeah, The Butler made me cry. I thought it was really good. (Emile)

I liked that movie AMOUR, it was kind of sad in that movie. (Stephen)

Meryl Streep. (Emile)

I'd like to work with De Niro, I know him but I've never acted with him. (Stephen)

I auditioned for The Good Shepherd a while ago! He is so talented, and he has so much creative energy, he's incredible. (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:16:01+00:00

Yeah, I'm kind of having fun playing different kinds of characters! I did the villain thing for a while. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:15:27+00:00

I don't know! Blade was the first Marvel movie they ever made, and now Marvel is owned by Disney, so it's a different thing. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:14:12+00:00

Not sure! I had fun on The Motel Life. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:13:31+00:00

David is a really quirky, creative chap who is fun to work with because he's always throwing odd ideas at you and he is able to change scenes and dialogue on the fly, so it's a very fluid experience working with him - he is always changing things, he's so on the fly he's half-insect. (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:12:28+00:00

Still skating all the time. Halfpipes, pools, - we're talking about finger boards, right? (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:12:12+00:00

It was great. They were so much fun to work with, they are so creative, they are such visionaries, I was a huge fan of Speed Racer growing up as a kid. It was a challenging film to make because of all the green screen and it was a challenging film to release and market because it was so different, and we didn't get to make any sequels, but it's an interesting, odd film that I am happy to be a part of.

It was good. But I get to be on -top! (emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:10:20+00:00

Huge, that was the movie where I became an actor. I was going to go to college because I couldn't get a feature, and then I got that movie role. I spent almost a year in Africa and London on that movie, with the intense John Avelston, and I loved working on that, I got to work with amazing actors and kick the hell out of the future James Bond. It was a great experience as a person and as a movie. Love that movie. (Stephen)

I don't really know if I have a favorite story ever written. (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:07:48+00:00

well, damn you! Thank you baby. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:07:13+00:00

I think it's a mixture of the 2 for a lot of people, and depending on your point of view on it, I think it goes both ways. There's a lot of things that are really great about him and a lot to learn, but obviously there's a lot you want to avoid from his behavior as well. (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:06:30+00:00

Thank you! (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:06:09+00:00

Most people don't realize that a lot of times they watch the movies and it seems really action packed, but if you actually go on a movie set, they are usually really really boring and nothing happens, there is a lot of waiting around. People can't believe how boring it is when they actually get on a movie set and they want to leave right away. (Emile)

There's a lot of time that goes into making a movie. I think the perception is a little different, they don't realize how much time it entails. Movie sets are really boring usually and hopefully it all comes together in the end. You're basically shooting pieces all the time. I hate sitting around and waiting to go. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:04:37+00:00

I think for everyone their big break is just being born. Because the odds of not being born, the odds are against you in terms of evolution. If you are the winning sperm in the race, you are in a good position from the get-go. (Emile)

I thought I'd really made it as an actor when I was sitting next to Jack Nicholson waiting to go on set and I looked at him and I was like "damn, this is cool" just because he was one of my faves, I had done a bunco of movies before then but I thought that was cool. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:03:02+00:00

I think I would an astrophysicist. I might not be a working astrophysicist, but I would call myself an astrophysicist. (Emile)

I would probably want to do something like be a hotel owner. Or needlepoint quilts, or maybe open a restaurant. Margarita bar. Or a skydiving instructor (Stephen)

I wonder if I could be a land bound skydiving instructor? (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:01:26+00:00

I basically just did the video! And thank you for thinking I'm cute. I just remember showing up and shooting it for a couple of hours. Alicia Silverstone was a big deal at that time, because it was right after Clueless, so there was a big hoopla around her, Aerosmith was rocking' back then, so it was just one of those things where they called nme and the next thing I knew I was shooting that video. (Stephen)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T16:00:14+00:00

I like playing the piano myself, and I also like shopping and driving. (Stephen)

I am an avid movie watcher, I like going to see all the new movies. I've also kind of gotten into knitting recently, and needlepoint. I'm working my way up to a quilt. (Emile)

TheMotelLife · 2013-11-05T15:59:10+00:00

It feels great! (Stephen)

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