Paul Giamatti Says ‘Big Fat Liar’ Is the ‘Weirdest’ Movie He’s Done

January 4, 2024 @ 2:16 PM

Paul Giamatti has an awesome movie and television return to that keeps up the ideal of them– however audiences of a particular age usually have a soft area for the timeless children’ flick that transformed him blue.

Talking To Marc Maron on Thursday’s “WTF” podcast, Giamatti showed exactly how “Big Fat Liar,” currently pressing 22 years of ages, has actually today been seen by “generations of people” and crowned it as the weirdest job he’s ever before done.

“I did this kid’s movie that’s probably the weirdest thing,” he stated of the 2002 funny costarring Frankie Muniz and Amanda Bynes. “I did this movie called ‘Big Fat Liar’ that kids — generations of people have seen this thing. And it’s just bizarre. I mean, it’s really strange.”

The star, that most lately starred in Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” played the slapstick funny’s resident bad guy, Marty Wolf. An unscrupulous Hollywood manufacturer, Marty takes a paper from high schooler Jason (Muniz) and adjusts it right into a hit movie. When no person thinks that Jason is the actual mastermind behind the job, he and good friend Kaylee (Bynes) look for retribution in the name of introduction the reality.

Memorably, one act of retribution from the teenagers has Marty by the way dying his skin blue and hair orange– sludge round goatee and all. Shawn Levy (“Free Guy”) guided the movie.

Giamatti formerly reviewed his operate in “Big Fat Liar” in a current video clip for GQ in which he damaged down his most legendary duties.

“I really liked doing physical things. I didn’t play a lot of sports or anything. I guess I wasn’t very competitive, but I liked how theater and acting could offer me a way to do crazy physical stuff,” he stated, including that Levy welcomed him to do a great deal of physical funny as Marty. “I can’t do a lot of that stuff anymore because I’m getting old and I injured myself a lot.”

Giamatti took place to highlight exactly how enjoyable it was to go “big” and “over the top” with Marty prior to reflecting on the personality’s regrettable– however suitable– face hair.

“I was always trying to grow facial hair for parts. I remember I did ‘Big Momma’s House’ and I grew this mustache for this cop and they made me shave it. They were really anti-facial hair,” Giamatti stated. “I grew a beard for [‘Big Fat Liar’]. Shawn was like, ‘They want you to lose the beard,’ and I was like, ‘I can’t lose the f–king beard.’ And he really fought for me. What he got was the compromise of just that chin beard, which was great, actually, because it’s a stupid looking beard. I think it needed that because it actually looks funnier like that with the orange hair. And the costumes, the more over the top and ridiculous the costumes we could get, the better.”

Pay attention to Gimatti’s complete “WTF” podcast episode below.