# Movies With Someone Being Interviewed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 12, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901 "2021-05-12T12:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/1 "2021-05-12T12:22:00Z")
Featured films… I don’t mean someone trying to get a job… But someone who’s interviewed, mostly likely for being famous, but it could have been a reporter who finds a witness who witnessed something. “La Dolce Vita” is one… The foreign press asks this international actress questions about Italy, movies, etc… “Frost/Nixon” is another… I preferred the actual interview, and didn’t think the actor did a good job of playing Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/2 "2021-05-12T12:23:10Z")
A hefty percentage of _The Usual Suspects_ involves a police interview. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/3 "2021-05-12T12:40:08Z")
[I’m Not There](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368794/), the witty and surprising “biopic” of Bob Dylan, contains a scene of a reporter interviewing “Alice Fabian”, played by Julian Moore, who very obviously stands for Joan Baez. Julian Moore totally pulls it off, she has Joan down to a T. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/4 "2021-05-12T12:47:19Z")
The movie **Little Big Man** has a “framing” story with Jack Crabb being interviewed (as the oldest and whitest claimed survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn) by a surprisingly young Will Hickey\*. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of movies with this same framing device, although most “flashback” movies are just someone recalling a story. In this case, at least, it sort of explains the “tall tale” nature of the story, with so many outrageous occurrences and unlikely encounters with historical people. It could all be true, or partly true, or all made up. - Dustin Hoffman was made up by makeup _artiste_ Dick Smith to look as if he was 120 years old, but you kinda suspect Smith was also making up Hickey to look young. I every other film I’ve seen Hickey looks 120 years old. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/5 "2021-05-12T13:11:05Z")
That was the third one I was thinking of, but I thought “I wonder how long its before someone picks it”… “Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/6 "2021-05-12T13:19:52Z")
_Reds_ had a series of interviews with “The Witnesses,” people who knew John Reed, to give historical perspective to the narrative. _Citizen Kane_ has a scene were reporters are interviewing Kane, and the entire movie consists of a reporter from the newsreel doing interviews with people who knew Kane. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/7 "2021-05-12T13:24:26Z")
The Hunger Games series has quite a few scenes with the tributes being interviewed by Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci). ---
**Author:** ![Bunnybread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@Bunnybread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bunnybread)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/8 "2021-05-12T13:34:42Z")
Silence of the Lambs and My Dinner with Andre ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/9 "2021-05-12T13:38:01Z")
In _Being There_ Chance is interviewed on a late night talk show; this propels him to national fame. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/10 "2021-05-12T13:39:20Z")
[_Almost Famous_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181875/) – A budding music journalist interviews a rock group. [_The End of the Tour_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416744/) – A writer interviews novelist David Foster Wallace. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/11 "2021-05-12T13:45:02Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > [I’m Not There](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368794/), the witty and surprising “biopic” of Bob Dylan, contains a scene of a reporter interviewing “Alice Fabian”, played by Julian Moore, who very obviously stands for Joan Baez. Julian Moore totally pulls it off, she has Joan down to a T. Sorry, just to avoid any confusion, of course the name is _Julia_ Moore, and she is female. Don’t know how that could happen twice in my post, maybe it has to do with the film I’m talking about, where such conventions are more than once broken. The hipster Dylan of 1965 is (fabulously) played by Cate Blanchett, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/12 "2021-05-12T13:47:03Z")
Well there’s “The Interview” starring Hugo Weaving, a really tense Australian film that is basically just a two-character one-room drama about a detective and the suspect he believes is guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/13 "2021-05-12T13:49:03Z")
**The Interview** (1998) - A small Australian thriller. Hugo Weaving is brought in on suspicion of car theft, but not all is as it seems. Nearly the entire movie is just him sat in a chair answering questions, and it works because of his acting skill. Good movie which I would compare to another noteworthy title, but that would give it away. GAH! Ninja’d by Eyebrows of Doom! ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/14 "2021-05-12T13:51:31Z")
Interviews with real and confected celebrities, musos and eye-witnesses are almost a mandatory component of a mockumentary. Two that come to mind immediately are _Spinal Tap_ and _The Rutles_. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/15 "2021-05-12T13:53:12Z")
Early on in _Iron Man_, Tony Stark is briefly interviewed by an attractive reporter from Vanity Fair. Tony being the handsome playboy that he is, he winds up sleeping with said reporter, as well. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KRDfCRUkcXo/maxresdefault.jpg "Tony Stark Meets Christine Everhart - Iron Man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRDfCRUkcXo) ---
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“Interview with the Vampire” - exactly what is says on the box. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/17 "2021-05-12T14:24:45Z")
_Notting Hill_ has Julia Roberts’ character being interviewed about her latest film. _Love, Actually_ has Bill Nighy’s character being interviewed on the radio _Spotlight_ has reporters interviewing victims and perpetrators of abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Lavender\_Pebble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lavender_pebble/32/6290_2.png) [@Lavender\_Pebble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lavender_Pebble)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/18 "2021-05-12T14:28:14Z")
The Japanese film _Funeral Parade of Roses_ has an interview with the main star woven throughout the fictional story, which is then also interspersed with interviews of other queer citizens on the street. It’s played as a real interview, but that might be part of the schtick. It’s an interesting watch if you’re into 60s new wave films. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/19 "2021-05-12T14:47:16Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > > [I’m Not There](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368794/), the witty and surprising “biopic” of Bob Dylan, contains a scene of a reporter interviewing “Alice Fabian”, played by Julian Moore, who very obviously stands for Joan Baez. Julian Moore totally pulls it off, she has Joan down to a T. > > Sorry, just to avoid any confusion, of course the name is _Julia_ Moore, and she is female. Don’t know how that could happen twice in my post, maybe it has to do with the film I’m talking about, where such conventions are more than once broken. The hipster Dylan of 1965 is (fabulously) played by Cate Blanchett, for example. **Julianne** Moore, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901/20 "2021-05-12T14:50:21Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > **Julianne** Moore Of course 🤦‍♂️! To my excuse, I got my second covid shot yesterday and am still a bit foggy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901.md?page=2)