{"id":2591,"date":"2008-08-28T19:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2010-11-29T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:00:29","slug":"interview-jonathan-levine-on-the-wackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/08\/28\/interview-jonathan-levine-on-the-wackness\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jonathan Levine on The Wackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewackness.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2592\" title=\"Jonathan Levine - Writer &amp; Director of The Wackness\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jl-the-wackness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jl-the-wackness.jpg 1322w, https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jl-the-wackness-580x526.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jl-the-wackness-940x853.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1082886\/\"><strong>The Wackness<\/strong><\/a> is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York\">New York<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1994\">1994<\/a>. It stars <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josh_Peck\">Josh Peck<\/a> as a teenage drug dealer and explores his relationships with a psychiatrist (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley\">Ben Kingsley<\/a>) and his daughter (<a title=\"Olivia Thirlby\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olivia_Thirlby\">Olivia Thirlby<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke with the director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1349522\/\"><strong>Jonathan Levine<\/strong><\/a> and we discussed various aspects of the film including the setting of 1994, working with Ben Kingsley and the importance of getting accepted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundance_Film_Festival\">Sundance Film Festival<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Jonathan_Levine_on_The_Wackness.mp3]\n<p>You can also download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wackness <\/strong>is out in the UK this Friday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\" http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Jonathan_Levine_on_The_Wackness.mp3\">Download this as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewackness.co.uk\/\">Official UK site for The Wackness<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.co.uk\/movies\/stepbrothers\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1349522\/\">Jonathan Levine<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FUUKclQnOYc\">Watch the trailer at YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photo by JoJo Whilden, \u00a9 2008 Occupant Films, Courtesy of Revolver\/Sony Pictures Classics]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Jonathan Levine, the director of The Wackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[444,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}