Going back to Spider-Man for a second, you had mentioned before in terms of your character, what was so interesting about your character is all the transitions you make, constantly going from one to the next, as an actor can you talk about how you get to those transitions?

Yea, well, Harry goes to extremes in both directions in this film, but I didn’t find it difficult playing the scenes, I feel like everything that he goes through has been justified by what has happened before. I guess I find as an actor as long as it feels real and justified, it’s not that difficult to play for some reason. It was a matter of, when we worked on it, Sam and I really plotted out where the changes were and how those changes would happen and what were the triggers, and just made sure we knew where Harry’s mental state was in each section of the movie. And then once we figured that out, it was pretty easy.

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How did you feel about him dieing, because he lives for a long time in the comic?

Right, there’s some series where I’ve seen him die, right? I remember one where he even has a child of his own, it’s the third generation of Osborn’s, and Harry gets blown up in a building or something. But, I guess I am assuming that this stuff is not going to come out before the movie’s out, so we’ll talk about the death or I guess you just want to ruin it. I feel like it was a great way to go out, that Harry’s arc in these films is not complete until this third film. And his major conflict is between his loyalty to his father’s memory and avenging his father and the loyalty he feels to Peter. Harry’s struggling with that through all the films, and he struggles with it most in this film. And once that’s resolved, I don’t know what the character can do other than fight along Spider-Man, and that seems a little strange. And so I’m happy that the character goes out on a strong point.

So you say you’re going to be in Spider-Man 4?

No, I don’t think anybody knows what’s happening. I think they’ve ordered a script for it, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that Sam or Tobey are going to do it. I’m sure they would like to if it’s right. But I know Sam has worked probably 6 or 7 years straight. We finish shooting, but then he goes onto post-production and then after that’s done he goes onto pre-production for the next movie, designing the effects and writing the script. So he has really not had a break for 6 years, so I’m sure he’s a little tired, although I know that he loves these movies more than anything and he identifies with Peter Parker. I think that it’s been such a perfect fit for him, I can see it being very hard for him to let it go. But if they were to make another one, I think they should either use the same group, Sam and Tobey and Kirsten and whoever else, or if they change one they should just change everything.

So talking about besides Pineapple Express, right. Besides that, is there another project on your horizon? And did you shoot anything between Spider-Man 3 and Pineapple?

Yea I did a bunch, I did a bunch of smaller films last year. I did a movie called The Dead Girl, one called An American Crime with Catherine Keener. Yea, very dark. I did a movie with Paul Haggis called In the Valley of Elah, I did a movie called Camille with Sienna Miller. I have a small part in most of those films, I just thought the scripts were amazing. I wanted to be involved in films that I really believed in, and that was the only reason. And I could go into them and not worry about how successful they were going to be financially, because I was satisfied with the people I was working with and the message that the films had and that was enough. Sean Penn said to me one time, ‘you know, after the movie comes out, if it doesn’t do well, turn your back and move onto the next thing.’ Which is easy to do if you know you went into the film for the right reasons. So I was just happy to be a part of those movies.

An American Crime got very mixed reviews at Sundance, did you read any of the stuff? Because a lot of people didn’t like it, it was very relentless in its savagery and its darkness.

Well, you know, I think it succeeds on some levels, and maybe people feel like it doesn’t on other levels. But I thought the intention was great and it was a great experience, so... It’s not like I ever thought that movie would be a huge blockbuster, so I was just happy to be a part of it.

So I guess the final thing would be, after Pineapple Express do you have something lined up?

Me, nothing definite, I went back to school, I’m at UCLA, I’m almost done.

Doing?

I’m an English major with a creative writing specialty and focus. I think I’m going to do a study abroad program over the summer in London where I’ll study William Blake and Shakespeare.