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"I've been eagerly waiting to see Michael Cera's next project (2013 is the year for Arrested Development, finally!), and my wish came true at Sundance. Michael had two films, Crystal Fairy and Magic Magic. I missed Magic Magic (to fly to a very exciting upcoming Teen Vogue cover shoot!), but love Crystal Fairy. The film is one of the best movies I saw at the festival\u2014in fact, the director Sebasti\u00E1n Silva just won the top directing prize for the film. Starring alongside Michael is Gaby Hoffman, who is excellent in the film. Michael plays Jamie, an American living in Chile who has all the wrong priorities. While at a party, he invites fellow American, and free-spirit Crystal Fairy (played by Gaby) to go on a trip to the desert with him and his three Chilean friends (Silva's dreamy brothers, Juan Andr\u00E9s Silva, Jos\u00E9 Miguel Silva, and Augustin Silva). Their trip is one for the ages.\n\nMichael and Gaby talked about filming in Chile, improving on set, and what it's like to be part of a movie they're so proud of.\n\nHow did you meet?\n\n Michael Cera: \"We worked like half a day together on the web show that Sebasti\u00E1n and Gaby made called, The Boring Life of Jacqueline, which I did an appearance on. We had a weird dream scene together. That was the only scene we had together.\"\n\n Gaby Hoffmann: \"I thought that was a just dream, actually.\"\n\nWhat drew you to these roles?\n\n GH: \"Sebasti\u00E1n, Sebasti\u00E1n, Sebasti\u00E1n.\"\n\n MC: \"Yeah, we just wanted to do anything with him. We both really fell in love with his movie and trusted him implicitly.\"\n\nWas there a lot of improv on the set?\n\n MC: \"Yeah, there was no dialogue written.\"\n\nHow long did it take to shoot?\n\n GH: \"We shot for 14 straight days in Chile.\"\n\nWho do you think your characters were prior to being Americans in living in Chile?\n\n MC: \"I think my guy was at a weird time in his life where he was trying to find out why people weren't gravitating toward him and searching for this breakthrough moment or something to free himself from his demons, and in the process just alienating everyone he comes into contact with. He's just rushing to have this moment of being present and completely missing the point.\"\n\n GH: \"There's a reveal at the end of the movie about something from my character's past and she basically had a traumatic experience and had to have a complete identity shift in order to recover from it. Instead of dealing with it and processing it, which we know she didn't do, she went into some sort of alternative universe with herself in almost a post-traumatic stress way and created an alter-ego. And she had to go and leave town. She's from San Francisco, in my mind. She had to step out of herself completely and create another universe for her to exist in order to not feel the effects of this experience that she had. And I feel like the movie is her finally being able to approach it, and process it, and work beyond it.\"\n\nMichael, what was it like to go through such a transformation from the beginning to the end of the trip?\n\n MC: \"I get the feeling that he's still got some hard times ahead of him and he's not free, but I thought it was a really important moment for him to be feeling passion, which is not something we've seen from him in any way throughout this whole movie. And it's really genuine. It was always a really important moment for me. I think it's so important for the character to feel like there's some kind of hope for change for these people.\"\n\nHow was Sundance?\n\n GH: \"It's really nice to be here with a movie that we feel proud of and that we like and that we want to see and celebrate. It's really hard to do that when you're not into it. So, like anything, to be able to give back to the movie feels great.\"\n\n MC: \"And it's such a movie made with real love. It's so earnestly made. I really love seeing people see it and enjoy it. Different kinds of people have been saying how much they like it.\"\n\n GH: \"Like 60-year-old Australian couples, coming up to me on the street, grabbing my arm with tears in their eyes.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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