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May 17, 2012

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Jenna Fischer & Chris Messina

You know her as the beloved Pam on NBC's The Office, but now Jenna Fischer is starring opposite Chris Messina in The Giant Mechanical Man, an imaginative romantic comedy playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. The two costars answer your questions here.

Q What do you think the overall message of this film is? - Uinterview User
A CHRIS: I think it's about being seen and someone seeing you and accepting you for who you are. That's one of the reasons I wanted to do the movie. That theme is super important to me and it rang really true in the script. JENNA: And I think the simplicity of that and yet the profound effect it has on your life if you have someone who really sees you and just, in life we're always pursuing, we have all these ambitions in life and life is hard and things can be difficult, but if you just have one person, it's not that all your problems go away but it makes it easier to endure them.
Q Did you model your characters after yourself or other people you know? - Uinterview User
A JENNA: My character's kind of based on me. I spent a lot of years struggling with figuring out who I was in the world and I had a lot of dreams but I was very shy and very unsure. So Janice is very much me during those struggling years. So I kind of based her on myself. CHRIS: Same with me. A lot of the stuff with Tim was based on my acting career and just acting in general. Trying to be a part of something that often felt like it didn't want me to be a part of, that kind of struggle of any young artist.
Q Jenna, what was it like to work with your husband, the director of this film? - Uinterview User
A JENNA: It definitely changed my performance. It was very exciting to work with my husband. This film is how we met and fell in love. He wrote the movie for me and in the writing process we ended up falling in love and got married. So six months after we got married we were shooting the film finally and it was amazing because, knowing me so intimately, he could come up and whisper something in my ear, some note or some direction that I could respond to in a way that it would be very difficult for another director to get that same performance because they don't know me as well. So that was exciting to have. It was so neat to have a director who could just know exactly how to affect you emotionally on any level. CHRIS: He could diffuse your anxieties and he could use your anxieties, and all the stuff going on inside you it was really cool.

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