Jason Schwarzmann

Born in Los Angeles on June 26, 1980, Jason Francesco Schwartzman has cinema in his veins, as he belongs to one of the most illustrious celluloid families. He is the son of producer Jack Schwartzman and actress Talia Shire , known as Rocky ‘s wife and for her role as Connie Corleone in the Godfather saga , directed by her brother, Francis Ford Coppola . So Jason Schwartzman has as cousins ​​not only Nicolas Cage , but also filmmaker Sofia Coppola and producer/screenwriter Roman Coppola .

Schwartzman didn’t have an exactly normal childhood. When Uncle Francis wasn’t filming, he settled in a small town in Napa Valley, California, to escape the glamor of Hollywood, and organized creative summer camps with his children (he had already predicted that Sofia would follow in his footsteps as a director when she was older). 3 years old) and nephews, including Schwartzman who participated in experiments of making up stories and acting them out. The boy developed a special relationship with his older cousin Roman, despite being 15 years older than him.

Still he didn’t see himself as an actor. “My mother is a great actress, and she loves to act, but she doesn’t like Hollywood, so she never encouraged me to follow in her footsteps. Although I watched a lot of old movies with her, and grew up surrounded by great personalities, I directed my footsteps to the musical field, where I feel safer because I’ve been playing the drums since I was 9 years old”, he explains.

Thus, he tried to succeed as a drummer and composer for the band Phantom Planet, when he was very young. But he eventually left the group to start his acting career. “I saw The Graduate and it tickled me. I set out to make it so that people have similar experiences.” He was 17 years old when he was recruited as the lead by a filmmaker, Wes Anderson , who was preparing to shoot Rushmore Academy , his debut feature. Despite his absolute inexperience in front of the cameras, Schwartzman rocked the role of the charismatic Max Fisher, a student at a prestigious institution in love with a teacher, who despite presiding over clubs and societies is a lousy student.

During the filming, he connected to such an extent with the director that they became great friends. But although his work became a cult film, and received good reviews, Schwartzman never got off the ground. During the following years he limited himself to shooting several shorts and cameo appearances in titles such as S1m0ne , Strange Coincidences , The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Make Me Laugh . He also played the agent of the actor played by Will Ferrell in Bewitched (2005) , an adaptation of the famous classic sitcom that did not obtain the expected results. Scott Pilgrim also failed against the world, where he had a brief role as one of the protagonist’s ex-boyfriends.

He was practically rescued from oblivion by his cousin, Sofia Coppola, who gave him the role of the frivolous Louis XVI in her particular biography of his wife, Marie Antoinette , where after the protagonist, Kirsten Dunst , Swartzman had the most prominent role. He also recovered his friend Anderson, who co-wrote with Roman Coppola and with him Trip to Darjeeling , where the actor plays one of the protagonists, three brothers – the others were Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody– that after the death of their father they embark on a spiritual journey through India to reunite with their mother. “We spent two years writing the script, which is based on our real experiences. So I consider it my most personal film,” says the actor. The film was complemented by Anderson’s own short Hotel Chevalier , which was shown before. There, the actor played the same character, who meets his girlfriend ( Natalie Portman ) in a hotel in Paris.

Schwartzman also voiced the son of the lead fox in Anderson’s animated Fantastico Mr. Fox , and was cousin Ben, the scout captain, in Moonrise Kingdom .

After various romances with women such as actresses Selma Blair and Zooey Deschanel , Schwartzman married designer Brady Cunningham. The couple had a daughter, Marlowe Rivers Schwartzman, born in 2010.

The general public, especially in the United States, knows Jason Schwartzman for his leading role in the HBO sitcom Bored to Death . He played a writer who is also an unlicensed private detective. It achieved some success at first, but after three seasons the ratings dropped and it was cancelled. The main theme of the soundtrack had been composed by Schwartzman himself, who has also written some for other series such as Smallville . Since 2007 he has released a couple of albums with Coconut Records, the name of a band that actually has him as the only member.