There are some actors and directors who just like working together. For some, they grew up together and started making movies. For others, they just happened to score a hit and set up a tradition. The best examples include John Ratzenberger, who lends his voice to everything Pixar does, and Bruce Campbell, who turns up in many of Sam Raimi’s movies, even if it’s only for a cameo. Firmly on that list is the winning combo of writer/director Jason Reitman and performer JK Simmons, who have worked together on Thank You for Smoking, Juno and Up in the Air, which all went on to great acclaim. Now the actor has revealed that Reitman has found a way to cram him into his latest directorial effort, Young Adult.
"Not unlike True Grit with the Coen Brothers, you will not see me in Young Adult, but you will hear me," Simmons tells Coming Soon. "They asked me to do the voice-over when they were in post-production and then Jason asked me to do the voice-over in Young Adult, because at this point, I'm his good luck charm. I've been in every feature he's directed."
With a script from fellow Reitman regular Diablo Cody, **Young Adult **stars Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary, a young adult genre writer who, following her divorce, heads back to her Midwest hometown to try to figure her life out. There, however, she tries to reconnect with her old flame Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), now a married man with a family, who doesn’t welcome her romantic overtures.
There’s no word on when the film will be out yet, though given that it reunites the Juno team and also features Simmons (even if it is just his vocal chords), we’re intrigued to see what Reitman and co have come up with next.