Michael Cera And Sebastian Silva Video Interview On ‘Crystal Fairy’

SILVA: It's important I mean to like develop somehow like a spiritual life or relationship with yourself that't side of like mundane experience right? And I feel that yeah if its you not buying into religion, which is really hard to nowadays. I think this kind of substances kind of help step out of yourself and like see things differently. So I highly recommend kids to take drugs. No but I'm not talking about cocaine or crystal meth, you know what Ilking about its like, yeah [laughs] that kind of stuff. CERA: I don't know. The friends that I grew up with that have done drugs have been like really sad to watch. But [laughs] I've seen it get bad with people so. SILVA: I mean that's the thing, like drugs is such a broad term. And I think it's wrong to consider just I don't know mescaline a drug and putting it in the same bag as crack. Because it really takes you different places.

That was a very strange three months and it was a real pleasure and a real special moment in my life. Sebastian’s family basically adopted me they were kind enough to take me into their home. And, you know, it wasn’t supposed to be three months that I was there, it was supposed to be there just one month and we were going to go make this other film Magic Magic and then it just kept getting delayed so I ended up staying there a lot longer than I’d planned… and I can't wait to go back. I think I have a lot of friends there now and it really feels like I have a second family there now.

Umm, it’s something that actually happened, it’s based on true events like twelve years ago. Me and my best buddy, we wanted to go take this cactus in the desert and the night before we took off and I went to the Whalers concert, and I ran into this woman with a hairy armpit that went by the name of Crystal Fairy. And she happened to be from San Francisco and her and I started smoking weed together and then—we smoked a lot of crack together [laughs] no we smoked weed together and then yeah I got excited she was fun, and I invited her to come along with us and she did. And the entire movie is based on that experience.

It’s good man, you can boss them around like crazy, no mercy, you can be so cruel and nobody can judge you. Like ‘Hey step away it’s family.’ I can treat them however I want you know. Like no one can tell you to stop. You’re being a complete sadist.
Cera: [Laughs] there’s no SAG representative.
Silvia: Umm, no it’s great. We really, really get along and like they were having a great time. They didn’t ever see it coming. The way at the beginning I only wanted only to cast one of them, but then it just made sense to have the three of them. And yeah, they were great, and I was so pleasantly surprised by their performance, especially by the oldest one, Champa. Like, he’s never done anything, and he doesn’t want to be an actor, and he’s never probably going to be in a movie again and I don’t know, maybe. But it’s really not his thing, it was such an accident for him and he did great, so charismatic.

SILVA: It’s something that actually happened. It’s based on true events, like 12 years ago, me and my best buddy, we wanted to go take this cactus in the desert and the night before we took off, I went to the Wailer’s concert and I ran into this woman that went by the name Crystal Fairy and she happened to be from San Francisco and [we] started smoking weed together. CERA: Crack? Didn’t you do a small amount of crack with her? (laughs) SILVA: Smoked a lot of crack [laughs]. No we smoked weed together and then, yeah, I got excited, she was fun and I invited her to come along with us and then she did. The entire movie is based on that experience.

CERA: Did that actually happen to you? [pointing to Silva] That panic attack? SILVA: Not to me, but it happened to the friend that I was with. It was not like a full on panic attack like the one in the movie, like he just got nervous about the amount of San Pedro we’d taken. He’s like ‘Did we take too much?’ And I’m like, ‘No, no it’s fine,’ and he’s like, ‘No we took too much right?’ and I was like ‘No man, it’s fine.’ He started to freak out and yeah I distracted him and I invited him to just jump in the ocean and that’s exactly what they do in the movie. CERA: It’s a good fix. SILVA: Yeah, it’s a good fix. It really distracts you; it’s really cold.

It’s good man. You can boss them around like crazy, no mercy, you can be so cruel and nobody can judge you. Like, ‘Hey step away, it’s my family I treat them however I want’ you know? Nobody can tell you to stop. CERA: Yeah, there’s no sad representative. SILVA: No it’s great. We really, really get along and they were having a great time. They never saw it coming. The way in the beginning I only wanted to cast one of them, but then it just made sense to have the three of them. They were great and I was so pleasantly surprised by their performance especially by the oldest one, Champa, like he’s never done anything, and he doesn’t want to be an actor. He’s never going to be probably be in a movie again, I don’t know, maybe, but it’s really not his thing. He did great, so charismatic.