David Sedaris and Jonathan Groff each sat down and talked about their upcoming movie C.O.G..
The movie is based off an essay Sedaris wrote for his Naked collection, where the writer spent time when he was younger working as an apple picker in Oregon, Indiewire reports.
The writer talked about watching his life play out on the big screen. "It was such an odd experience to sit in the audience and watch. Because I had not seen it before. It was odd to watch something you wrote but especially something you wrote with you it it."
He finds seeing his work turned into films makes him hate his writing sometimes. "It was painful to be reminded of how pretentious and horrible I was." He finds himself thinking, "oh my god, I wrote that," when contacted by a student filmmaker that has adapted something. He was more okay with C.O.G., since it's an essay that doesn't include his family.
He does seem happy though with the film by Kyle Patrick Alvarez, and was fine with Jonathan Groff playing a version of him.
According to New York Post, the 28-year-old earned a Tony nomination for Broadway's Spring Awakening and appeared on Glee before turning to the big screen with C.O.G.
Groff said Sedaris kept away from the set during shooting, preferring to let Alvarez "do his thing." Sedaris did show up at Sundance and Groff said he "was incredibly supportive and very chatty and really nice."
The Glee alum almost passed on the film because he didn't want to "do a David Sedaris impression," but the director talked him into it because he was looking more into the story and less on someone doing an impression of Sedaris.
C.O.G. opens in theaters Friday.
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