I came across some of these hilariously bitchy (and true!) quotes from Jason Patric, 44, in the latest issue of OK! Magazine. (The one with the Bachelor split on the cover. Let me know if any of you care enough to have us report on that at some point.) These quotes are in an interview from over a week ago, but they’re new to me and are so good I just couldn’t pass them up. Patric, who you might remember from Lost Boys, is working on Broadway now and he really dished to NY Magazine’s Vulture blog. He ripped on how manufactured Lady Gaga is, called Ashley Judd a “lazy and arrogant actress” and talked about his relationship with Julia Roberts after she broke up with his buddy Kiefer Sutherland and the tabloids. There were a ton of good quotes in there, and he even brought up the Brangelina crap.
On how he supposedly decided against being a big star
I chose not to become a movie star for movie star’s sake at a time when there weren’t a lot of movie stars and that opportunity was presented to me. After the success of something like Lost Boys with Kiefer, I didn’t choose to keep making those movies. I mean, I made Rush when I was 24 years old. Shocks me when I look back it. I mean, 24 … kids are still in high school these days. Before I did Narc, I hadn’t worked in three years. I just didn’t find things I wanted to do. I had just produced Your Friends and Neighbors, which was exhausting and good, and I didn’t find anything worth working on for three years. That’s suicide in this business because you have to remain in the forefront of people’s minds and certainly onscreen, but I didn’t care about that. Early, the movies I was interested in, people’s work is what propelled their career. That has changed vastly, immeasurably. It started to change when I started and now it absolutely makes no sense of difference whatsoever. Doesn’t matter if you have talent. Doesn’t matter what you’ve done before and, frankly, the people with a lot of talent don’t give a shit if they make crappy movies for money because it’s actually more respected than their better movies.
On working with Ashley Judd on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
I said I wasn’t coming back to Broadway unless I had more input and creative control. Look, you get to do Tennessee Williams on Broadway every twenty years of your life. And I loved playing the role and I loved the majority of my cast, but I had issues with the producers, I had issues with the director. I loved saying the words and working with most of the people every night. I didn’t like my leading lady. Ashley is just a lazy and arrogant actress. Let’s just leave it at that.
On Lady Gaga
This Lady Gaga is absolutely preposterous. This is, what? You take a shit in a Cuisinart and put some pasties and get Auto-Tuned and look who I am. Well nothing, you’ve been marketed, that’s all. If I was a musician maybe I’d get angry about it, but it’s just like, what? Again, just turn the page.
On his friendship with Kiefer Sutherland
I had not seen him in over twenty years, and about a year ago he called me and we had some drinks because he wanted to talk … he had just finished a show and he said I want to do some good stuff, I want to do some different stuff, good stuff that pushes me. He just wanted to talk to me because he said you always make unique choices. That made me laugh. And he wanted to talk about theater. We had a night talking, drinks, and I said yeah, well, if something comes up I’ll let you know, and eight months later I was like, You know what? Kiefer might be good in this thing. This year it will be like 25 years; we haven’t worked together in 25 years.
On the tabloids
Q: What about your mutual tabloid fame. You dated Julia Roberts right after he did, just after she was supposed to marry him, and then you two took off for Ireland.
All that stuff is made up, if you even go back there to all the archives you’re never gonna see any comment by me. It’s not like today, where Jennifer Aniston says this happens and Angelina says that and people give quotes. I don’t give quotes about anything. And everything that happened was all fake and bullshit and let them give quotes about whatever they want. Obviously people are gonna ask. They had a relationship that ended and I was with her for a little while and it ended. They’ve both been subsequently married several times and I think they’re fine. But we never had any issue, even back then.
Q: Do you guys ever goof about it now?
Oh yeah, we look at it is as a goof because we know all the bullshit of the tabloids and how all this is created and people Do. Not. Care. About it. The truth is, I don’t know these editors of these magazine, so they honestly think we care about Brangelina? We don’t. Not just me, nobody cares. No. Body. Cares.
[From NY Mag]
People care about Brangelina, just not the people in his circle in New York city. Patric said that he’s still single and might settle down at some point, but that he never really wanted to because he was so focused on his career. At least that’s how I interpreted his comments. He talks so much smack that it’s hard to know exactly what he means. Some commenters on this story are noting that he sounds bitter as hell, and I get that too. Maybe he’s always been like this though, which would explain why his career never quite took off. That would also explain why he’s trying to portray it as some sort of noble personal choice that makes him superior to the actors who “sold out” and are living the easy life. I’ll say something nice – It must be a bitch to deal with all the phonies and leaches in Hollywood, even for people who aren’t curmudgeons and try and be team players.
Jason Patric is shown on 3/6/11 and 1/18/11. Credit: WENN.com
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