So given that you got to say and do whatever you wanted, do you have that Fanboy in you to…

Oh yeah, man. I got a huge Star Wars collection like you have no idea. I have like every single figure from all the new series and I’ve got a ton of like everything from like 1984 so like I grew up watching Star Wars so to do that movie was like a dream. I felt like a kid in a candy shop the entire time. 

Were you around for any of the star cameos?

Yeah, I got to kiss Carrie Fisher, man.  That was amazing.  That was absolutely amazing.  Billy Dee Williams, I didn’t get to meet Kevin Smith unfortunately, I was filming something else while they went back and added in that scene.  Kevin Smith’s got a scene that he wrote and directed that they added into the movie which unfortunately I didn’t get to…they wanted to be in it but I couldn’t. Yeah, everybody was cool man.  Everybody that’s seen the movie…George Lucas saw it…and was like I loved this movie. Take all the sound effects from all the original movies, you can have them all and you can use whatever you want so they …..

Did he say “Yo”?

Yeah, he said Yo.  And he said Dude.  He called me dude.  He said I was one of the most fabulous actor he’s ever seen.

Really?

I’m sure he felt it. No, I didn’t talk to him at all. I wish I did.

So he’s considering you for the third trilogy of Star Wars.

Yes, exactly. 

So I believe you guys are going to do some promotion at the Star Wars celebration in May as well as in Europe in July.  How do you feel about going to a Star Wars convention?

Man, I’ve never been to an actual Star Wars convention for Fanboys but we went to a comic book convention in December and that was incredible. It was like…I didn’t realize how many people were actually looking forward to any kind of Star Wars fan movie. It was like wow, really, ok, cool.  They didn’t know anything about it, they just knew it was Fanboys and it was about Star Wars and they were in. And I was like wow, that’s pretty cool.  You know Star Wars fans, man, Star Wars fans are diehard, so these people are really nice and they want to know everything and they’re totally into it and it was cool. I felt I made something the people are really going to enjoy. 

Are you going to do anything at the Comic-Con?

Yeah.  We’re going to the Comic-Con. They’d gone last year for a little bit, the director and producers went, so I think we’re definitely going to do the whole round.

So let’s ask the question of what’s coming up next that wasn’t on IMDB?

Um, I can’t say just yet in the next 2 weeks something should be announced but I’m not allowed to say it just yet, but it will be cool. It will be definitely cool.

Let’s ask the question-- is it a big budget summer kind of movie?

I think so.  I think so.  We’ll see what happens.  It’s a really good production company, really good people behind it. Great writer and director.

Like Spielberg?

Yeah. It’s like Tom Hanks and Spielberg….no, not at all.  Don’t quote me on that one. Yeah, it’s like really cool people who’ve been working on this one project for a long time and it’s getting made and they’re like really excited.

So it’s an Indie?

It’s an Indie but it’s a really big production company so I think it’s going to get distributed also.

Is it a comedy or drama?

Action comedy.  Sort of sci-fi action comedy. It’s cool.

Do people still…the whole Girl Next Door you know with the Vivid hat and that character you played is that like the one people seem to remember you?

Yeah, it seems it.  Just Friends sort of came into the picture after that sort of like and blanketed out a bunch of other people.  I did Girl Next Door now going on 5 years so 5 years ago so at a certain point now they’re like…I get less of like “Hey you’re that guy from…” and more like “dude, where did you go to school?”  I’m like I didn’t graduate high school. “Are you sure you didn’t go to Notre Dame?” Yes, I’m positive I didn’t go to Notre Dame.  “I had English class with you”.  No, it’s like it sort of keys in with them and they really don’t know. That movie is like a frat boy movie so for the most part if I’m at a bar and the guy’s like “Dude, fuck her for me dude”. And it’s like fantastic.

It kind of has a cult following.

It became a very like college movie. Most of the people who’ve ever seen it like the movie. I like the movie, I thought it was very funny but most of the people who’ve ever seen it they’re like yeah, dude we watch it in my dorm all the time man, every Friday with some popcorn and some beer and we’re good to go. That’s really cool.  Just Friends sort of took that over a little bit though. I’d done that movie and then people a little bit later I felt I look a little bit more similar to that than I did in the Girl Next Door. 

Do you enjoy the L.A. nightlife?

Yeah, I do.  Well, Guys is my one place. I never really go anywhere else. I went to Le Deux like once maybe 4 months ago and it was like the most chaotic crazy thing I’ve ever been to so I just stick to my jazz night and that’s about it.

I know that you’ve kept friends with a lot of people that you’ve worked with.  Is it hard in the industry to keep friends especially out here in L.A. where a lot of people are competitive and all that stuff?

Yeah, man.  It’s crazy.  It’s to the point what I have realized which is nice is that I have a really close group of friends and they’re all actors for the most part and they’re all actors I’m up against all the time.  For the most part it’s nice. You get to know somebody well enough you understand that everybody’s in the same boat. You’re all floating at the exact same speed. Certain projects are good for one person and they aren’t good for another and that’s just what happens. I’ve tried out for stuff that I’ve absolutely loved and would die to do and like my best friend has gotten it.  And it’s never been anything other than like cool, man like it’s you and I respect you and I’m glad that you’re doing it and I’m glad that’s it’s a talented person doing this and it’s not …it’s nice because as I kid I’ve grown up doing this and as an adolescent it’s so easy to get jealous and it’s so easy to envy somebody and it’s so easy for people to really turn against you over a project which after a long time you realize it’s not that important. You do movies, you keep going and you do them. Some seem like a big deal and they end up doing nothing, and some seem like nothing and they end up being a big deal. You really can’t tell so at a certain point your friends are the ones that matter and that’s sort of how I’ve kept it.

I’m also curious when you guys were filming the movie if you geeked out with David over superhero movies?

Are you kidding me?  He was telling me…I was grilling him about the next Batman. He told me a couple things about Batman and stuff and I was really excited for him. But he kept it pretty quiet for the most part. 

It’s kind of hard because he writes a lot of the superhero stuff.

Yeah, he writes tons.  Yeah, that’s what’s cool. I think about this thing and I think he was able to invest that kind of like that’s the whole idea about his superhero movie is to make superheros human. So you take a supernatural movie and try to make it as real as possible and David Goyer is one of the best to do that.