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Thats when two similar-looking men, each five-foot-nothing, run up on him: Jesus!
Howd you find me!, Howard says.
My office wouldnevertell you where I am.
The brothers seem just as incredulous: This is the last straw!, one says.
Howard brushes them off.
You bring your fucking heavy with you?
Theyre New Yorkers, but in separate interviews with Vulture, didnt want to disclose much more than that.
Mitchell collects celebrity autographs; Stewart is a singer-songwriter.
A Brief Conversation With Mitchell Wenig
Mitchell Wenig:Whats your name?
Im from Vulture,New YorkMagazines website.Oh, great.
How are you, Hunter?
How are you?Okay.
Tell me about the audition.The audition was with, I think, Jennifer, a young lady.
So, what was it like when you got on set?Oh, it was great.
Very exciting working with Adam Sandler.
So that was good, and that took a lot of the day.
This was around eight years ago.
And I said, Sure.
How about my two friends?
They said, We dont want them.
I would say, for those reasons.
Maybe they also like my presence, how I looked.
And they figured, He looks like an interesting guy to be in one of our movies.
Maybe because I had long hair too.
That could be part of it.
Either Josh or Benny said that you went to high school with their mom.
Do you remember that?I dont think I remember her in school.
If so, she wasnt in my grade.
Okay, got it.Maybe that was my brother.
Stewart, S-T-E-W-A-R-T. Stewart.
What did you think of the movie the first time you saw it?The new movie?
Yes,UncutGems.I thought it was good.
Is it hard for you to watch yourself onscreen?
Some actors have trouble with that.Its pretty easy.
Have you been recognized by fans?Yeah.
It was like an older woman, like a conductor, but she didnt see the movie yet.
Is there anything else that you want to say about the movie?No.
How did I do?
You did so well, thank you.So the article will come out in a magazine?
Itll be online.Oh, not inTime Outmagazine paper?
You know the magazineTime Out, do they still put that out?
Yes they do, but I work forNew YorkMagazine.Oh,New YorkMagazine?
And youre Hunter, right?
Yes, I am.Okay.
Im glad we enjoyed the interview, doing it together.
What was the audition like?
What do you remember?They just asked us to say a few lines or something.
I dont think it was that much.
But they already know my brother and they were fans of his.
But then it turned out I was only in one of the three scenes.
Were you nervous before you started your first day?Not so much.
Wow.I also write songs, so I started writing songs [forUncut Gems].
I wrote a song with the title Uncut Gems.
And the Safdie brothers liked the songs and they like, know how they go and stuff.
But for some reason they didnt put them in the movie.
How long have you been songwriting?Ive been doing it a long time.
Can you tell me more about shooting your scene?Yeah.
It was exciting to do the scene together and to work with Adam Sandler.
Adam Sandler thought they were funny, but they didnt use anything.
Did you like being on set?
What did you think of the experience?Yeah, it was good.
I guess there was a lot of waiting around.
I thought it was great to be in a movie.
Whats your favorite Adam Sandler movie?Happy Gilmore.
You know, when he plays golf?
I thought that was like the most outrageous that he was, was in that movie.
So whats your typical job?
It would have been great to have it in the movie you know, the songs in the movie.
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Sure, lets talk about the music more.
What makes you so interested in songwriting?Im just pretty talented, you know.
I could really write a song thats made to order.
Like, I thought that was a good idea to write [a song] with the film title.
But then after, they said that wasnt such a great idea.
But Ive seen other movies where they did have the movie title in the movie [song].
What did you think the first time you saw the movie?I thought the movie was good.
I think some people didnt like that, a little bit, about the movie.
I just talked to Mitchell and he said that hes been recognized a couple of times.
And maybe some other person also recognized me on the street.
But they can also think that Im my brother too, you know, because we look alike.
So they dont know which ones which.
Yeah, you guys do look a lot alike.
One of my friends thought you were twins.Yeah.
We get that a lot.
Yeah, I sawthat online.
Was it weird for you to watch yourself onscreen?No, I like it.
Do you want to keep acting?Yeah.
Do you know how we could get more opportunities?
