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"  Jared Hess has a thing for weirdos. The Napoleon Dynamite director loves showcasing a Middle America that&amp;#039;s terminally tacky and infested with oddballs. Enter Michael Angarano, Hess&amp;#039; most recent weirdo, starring in the director&amp;#039;s latest venture into idiosyncrasy, Gentlemen Broncos, opening this weekend. Angarano plays a wide-eyed aspiring fantasy novelist whose manuscript, Yeast Lords, gets stolen by his idol, a famous author played by Flight of the Conchords&amp;#039; Jemaine Clement, who reworks the story into Bowie-fied camp.  Angarano isn&amp;#039;t as na\u00EFve as his hapless Broncos character. The Brooklyn-bred 21-year-old has been around the cinematic block, with supporting roles in Lords of Dogtown, Sky High, and David Gordon Greene&amp;#039;s Snow Angels. And yes, that was him earning laughs as Jack&amp;#039;s long-lost son on Will &amp;amp;amp; Grace. Next up for Angarano is a star turn in Ceremony alongside Uma Thurman that&amp;#039;s sure to conjure up all kinds of Mrs. Robinson comparisons. He talked to ELLE.com about life on the ranch. ELLE: Gentleman Broncos is a bizarre script. Would you say it&amp;#039;s your kind of humor? Michael Angarano:  I think so. I don&amp;#039;t know how to describe my sense of humor, and I definitely don&amp;#039;t know how to describe the sense of humor of the script. You have to see Jared&amp;#039;s earlier movies to get a grasp on it. But it&amp;#039;s kind of a novelty, to get something like that. You have a character who is victimized throughout the whole movie. This pathetic, just sad, winning character gets put through the worst.  ELLE:  Were you won over by the script immediately? MA:  I was. I really was. But it took me a while to get through the sci-fi sequences.  ELLE:  Was it the projectile vomiting that tripped you up? MA:  Yeah\u2014there were phrases like &amp;quot;projectile vomit&amp;quot; in there and &amp;quot;battle stag.&amp;quot; I was just like, What is this? Like I honestly don&amp;#039;t know what he&amp;#039;s talking about. I didn&amp;#039;t know what to think. ELLE:  Were you a Hess fan before?  MA:  I hadn&amp;#039;t seen Napoleon Dynamite\u2014and still haven&amp;#039;t, actually. But I&amp;#039;ve seen Nacho Libre, and I think it&amp;#039;s a great movie.  ELLE:  How did you get the part of Benjamin in Broncos?  MA:  I went in and auditioned for Jared, and it just felt right. That was it. We just showed up. I think Jared casts his actors with their personality in mind, so no rehearsal is required. He just puts them on set and lets them go.  ELLE:  Did you guys improv your scenes at all? MA:  Certain characters did. My character had very minimal improv. Benjamin does not try to be funny at any point in the movie. Literally, at no point is he trying to make a joke. I looked at Benjamin as a severely depressed guy.  ELLE:  You&amp;#039;re in New York filming Ceremony with Uma Thurman. How is that going? MA:  It&amp;#039;s going great. I was actually supposed to do Ceremony right after filming Broncos, but it got pushed until now.  ELLE:  What did you like about this script? MA:  There&amp;#039;s just something about it. The story, the character\u2014I don&amp;#039;t know, everything?  ELLE:  What&amp;#039;s it like working with Uma Thurman? MA:  She&amp;#039;s so great, so perfect for the role. It&amp;#039;s kind of astonishing working with her.  ELLE:  Can you single out a favorite of all the movies you&amp;#039;ve done?  MA:  As a movie in general, I think Snow Angels. I&amp;#039;m biased because I really love David Gordon Greene. And I like Gentlemen Broncos a lot. They&amp;#039;re very indulgent movies, not exactly trying to please the crowd. I think the movies that don&amp;#039;t try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end. ELLE:  You come from a family of performers\u2014your parents own dance studios in New York. Do you dance at all? MA:  I was forced to dance all my life.  ELLE:  You hated it? MA:  No, I like it. I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children&amp;#039;s dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I&amp;#039;m very flexible.  ELLE:  Could you do a split on command? MA:  I think I&amp;#039;d pull my groin! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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