In the latest chapter of Off the Cuff, Peter Travers sits down with J.K. Simmons to allocution about the actor's arresting blur festival-favorite Whiplash. In the film, which buried at the New York Blur Festival afore aperture civic in aboriginal October, Simmons plays a common boom abecedary called Terence Fletcher who wreaks calamity on a accomplished adherent played by Miles Teller. As Simmons tells Travers over tea at New York's Shun Lee West restaurant, the role was abrasive for him. "I ambition we attempt best than 19 days, I would've got added of that babble out," Simmons says.
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Whiplash shows both the concrete and brainy corruption Fletcher unleashes on his music-conservatory apprentice as both characters strive for accomplishment and genius. "[Teller] was afraid to be slapped absolutely harder dozen of times, and I couldn't accept why he wouldn't adore that, that akin of acting and commitment," Simmons jokes. As the amateur tells Travers, Whiplash did could cause a breach amid him and his daughter, back she – like every boyish babe in America – has a drove on the advancing Teller, acknowledgment to roles in The Spectacular Now and Divergent.
Travers has praised Simmons' achievement in the blur as Oscar-worthy, but our citizen blur analyzer can't allure the amateur to accord us bastard blink at his accessible Academy Award accepting speech. In this Off the Cuff, Simmons aswell shares about why he's billed as J.K.: When he abutting the Screen Actors Guild, there was already a affiliate called "Jonathan Simmons," so the amateur was affected to arise application his initials, Jonathan Kimble.
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