Huffington Magazine Issue 53 | Page 72

12 Exit 25 QUESTIONS HUFFINGTON 06.16.13 Which character does the most with a small amount of screen time in This Is the End? Michael Cera (Michael Cera). 13 Which character does the most with a moderate amount of screen time? Emma Watson (Emma Watson). 14 Wait, how does Danny McBride fit into all of this? Danny McBride (Danny McBride) comes to the party uninvited, then sleeps through the beginning of the apocalypse. Regardless, he joins the other five holed up at James Franco’s house. © 2013 COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 16 15 I don’t understand what this movie is about. It’s probably for the best. Is each actor portraying himself or herself as how he or she actually is in real life? Though they all are playing themselves — and I’m sure there are some overlapping tropes — the actors definitely play exaggerated versions of themselves. For example, I’m sure in real life Danny McBride has uttered a funny insult, but it’s doubtful that he has an appetite for human flesh. (That said, I have no inside information regarding either of those two assumptions.) 17 What are these famous actors doing while just sitting around James Franco’s house? As mentioned before, there is masturbation. And there are a lot of references to James Franco’s lesser movies. But, eventually, the group starts to run out of food and water,