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Working with director Wes Anderson on The Darjeeling Limited was a laugh a minute adventure for Jason Schwartzman. He tells Miles Fielder why
says Jason Schwanzman. ‘Every day" we set out to work was an adventure. We never knew what was going to happen.‘
The 27-year-old American actor might well be reminiscing about his big screen debut in 1998 in Wes Anderson‘s brilliant high school comedy Rushmore. Instead. Schwartzman. who over the course of the following nine years has fashioned himself a cool career making hip. offbeat films.
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is describing the experience of working with Anderson once again on his new movie. The Darjeeling Limited.
‘When Wes first brought it tip l was so excited] Schwart/man says. his face radiating genuine enthusiasm. ‘We met on Rushmore. and although we‘ve been really good friends since then we hadn't worked together again. So when Wes said I‘d like to make a film about three brothers on a train in India and I‘d like you to be a part of it. I was so excited. I knew it would be different because now we are friends. whereas on Rushmore we were only just getting to know each other.‘
The Darjeeling Limited follows a trio of
estranged siblings with arrested development issues (played by Schwart/man. Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody). who in the wake of their father's death. reunite to undertake a train trip across India that‘s intended to bond them together once again. The brothers. spiritual
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quest. however. is quite literally derailed when circumstances some originating lrom the \agaries of travel in the Indian continent. others from the be}? adolescent behaviour to maroon them in the middle of the desert with a cumbersome l l suitcases and an unwieldy laminating machine. setting in motion a new and unforeseen course of events.
The film's a tliree-hander in more ways than one. While it bears .'\nderson‘s unmistakable idiosyncratic comic tone and his carefully designed v istial and aural styling. 'I'he [Mr/while Limited was eo-written with Schwart/man and his cousin Roman (‘oppola (the son of Hollywood legend l-i'ancis l‘ord. .lason‘s nuclei. The three writers began work on the script in Paris 7 where. coincidentally. all three were living thanks to various filminaking commitments »- before taking a trip to India to finish it. The idea was that the co-writers would have an adventure abroad and Use their
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