The Dr. Horrible actress sits down with Wired.com to talk about Hollywood, her webseries The Guild, and other assorted things.  I hope I’m not alone is saying that I could listen to her talk all day long about her geektasticness. 

Wired.com: What are your fans communicating to you when they meet face to face?

Day: I hear a lot from women, “I love The Guild and I love that you have a geeky girl and that you’re representing that because that’s how I feel.” And: “I’m a girl gamer and I’ve never seen girl gamers that are authentic before.” I remember one guy at BlizzCon told me, “Thank you very much because now I tell my co-workers that I game without shame.” He really genuinely said that and I was so touched, because when I created the show I was just writing organically about my experience. I think that most people, if they were in Hollywood, they would never write something about a niche that wouldn’t please everybody. But the thing about the web is that you can make niche content and you can give a voice to people who wouldn’t feel like they have everything in common with what the mainstream is giving them.

Quentin Tarantino recorded an hour long interview with Charlie Rose last week to promote Inglourious Basterds. You can download the WMV video file of the interview right now by clicking here.

(The video above is an interview with Robert Rodriguez when Grindhouse was being released, the current interview is only available at the links above)

As Rex points out, this “was one of the best TV experiences of 2009 so far.”

If you watch the interview for its duration, one of the interesting bits concerns a possible, maybe-future Tarantino project.

Tarantino said he has plans to one day make a movie based on the life of abolitionist John Brown, whose unsuccessful attempt to start a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 was but one catalyst helping to start the Civil War.  Tarantino told Rose John Brown is “my favorite American who ever lived.”

Not much information comes out of this 7-minute interview between MakingOf.com and Harold Ramis, nay Egon Spangler, but it’s good to hear one of the creators/writers talk about Ghostbusters 3 like it’s really going to happen.

Because we all know that the first Ghostbusters is the greatest movie ever made — yes I went there deal with it — (and the sequel wasn’t half bad either). 

He does talk about making the first film and how it’s impossible to top (duly noted), and about the never-made potential sequel Ghostbusters Go to Hell.  [Via /Film]

Megan Fox, she of porn star looks and acting talents but starrer of actual Hollywood movies, went on CBS’s Early Show and tried to explain to host Harry Smith what the deal with Transformers was.  At least she has a good sense of humor about it, with her tongue-firmly-in-cheek, telling Smith, “I’m in the movie, and I read the script, and I watched the movie, and I still didn’t know what was happening.  So I think that if you haven’t read the script, and you go and see it and you understand it, you may be a genius…. This is a movie for geniuses.”

It’s awkward enough having to watch what amounts to your dad hitting on your younger brother’s insanely hot girlfriend, but it’s also a pointless interview since CBS covered up her cleavage (her only asset) with inforgraphics.  Thanks CBS.

Anyways, it’s clear there is something appealing about Megan Fox, but I can’t put my finger on it.  It’s like she knows not to take any of this serious, but she clearly has a sense of humor — dry and slightly … witty?  It’s a conundrum as Winston Churchill would say.  Hopefully, she does more comedy in the future and less giant robots smashing things.

Anyone worth a damn is pulling for Mickey Rourke to take home the Best Actor Oscar.  It has to be him, not only for his performance but also for the exceptional story it would make.  Mickey taking home the statue is how his “redemption” story has to end.

It can’t end with him losing to Sean Penn, though I would be okay if he lost to either Frank Langella or Richard Jenkins.  It just can’t be the insufferable douchebag Sean Penn (though his turn as joyously alive Harvey Milk was the few times I didn’t instinctively cringe from a Sean Penn performance).

Hopefully, his exceptional interview with Charlie Rose on Thursday night will help matters.  Sway those last minute Academy voters.

The 54-minute Mickey Rourke interview that aired on Charlie Rose Thursday is now up on Rose’s website.  If the embedded video isn’t quality enough.

Brad Bitt, Frank Langella, Robert Downey Jr., Sally Hawkins, Mickey Rourke and Anne Hathaway talk it up.  I love RDJ starts to praise Rourke for 9 1/2 Weeks and he goes “I remember when that came out” before getting cut off by Mickey Rourke who goes “You probably remember it better than me.”  At that point in time RDJ probably didn’t remember it much either.

It’s funny how much reverence Mickey Rourke has among these people and he deflects all praise with self-deprecation.  Interesting.

Director David Fincher and actor Brad Pitt swung by the Charlie Rose Show to talk in length about their flick The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I haven’t seen this one yet, but the mixed reviews have me, oh god I was going to say curious, interested more than I was.  Fincher hasn’t disappointed me yet.  Okay that’s a lie.  Have you seen Alien 3?

I’m a sucker for long form interviews like this.  Damn you Chuck Rose, damn you.  There goes the next hour of my life.

The New York Times’s Pat Jordan, a sportswriter, goes toe to toe with Mickey Rourke and isn’t buying what his PR people are pushing.  But it is a great read.  To wit: “You want to earn respect in your old age,” he went on to say. “You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: ‘There’s Mickey Rourke. He was great in “The Wrestler.” ’ You don’t want them jumping out of windows.”  Semi-related – Jordan’s story on Deadspin about attempting to interview Jose Canseco is a gem.

I have to see this movie right now. �Honestly. �I’ve been searching for a contrarian opinion about Slumdog Millionaire, but I’ve yet to find one. �And that makes me smiling from ear to ear. �It’s not that I’m looking for something bad about the flick, per say, it’s just that I’m obsessed right now with how potentially awesome this Danny Boyle flick is going to be. �The more I search for something negative and come up empty the more excited I get. �Don’t try to understand my logic. �

Variety’s Anne Thompson sat down with Boyle during the Telluride Film Festival. �

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Jason Bateman stopped by Keith Olbermann’s Countdown last night to promote Hancock, but what everyone really wants to know is what he had to say about a possible Arrested Development movie.

Luckily, David Cross provided some welcome outside interference to break up the Hancock talk. Nothing much revealed, except that the movie is a possibility and they are trying to work stuff out.

Wasn’t Keith Olbermann supposed to be a newsman of sorts?

It was an unexpected surprise, but QT had a panel during Cannes. Thankfully, Spoutblog was there to capture it as best they could. Moral of this story is that live-blogging a Tarantino discussion is a-okay, but live-blogging Indiana Jones 4 makes you a douche. Actually a supreme douche.

Anyway, back to Tarantino. I think that Karina did an excellent job keeping up with the notorious motormouth and while he doesn’t reveal anything great, like say, his next project, he does reveal some cool insights into how he works as a director. So big kudos to Karina.

I go to Sundance, Reservoir Dogs is already set to go, we�ll be leaving Sundance and going into production. I liked long takes, I was a huge Godard fan. So I do one of the scenes from the movie, the one where Mr Pink is like, �Is taht a fucking set up, or what?!?� I set it all up in long takes. They tell me at Sundance, we want you to get out of this whatever YOU want out of it.� So I do. John Amiel, Monte Hellmann were there�and they hated my scene. Stephen Goldblatt, the cinematographer, said, �Not only is this horrible, but what�s really frightening is, you�re going into production. If you do this, they will fire your ass.� They have a meeting with me, and they just start talking about how I can�t do what I did. Like, �We ALL liked Godard, but enough!�

So I get my ass reamed, and take a long solitary walk. And I go, you know what? I liked my scene. It� wasn�t like they were mad at me for experimenting, it was like they thought I didn�t know any better. So after dealing with all that, they leave. The next group of resource directors come in, and it�s Terry Gilliam, Volker Schlorndorf )sp?) and Stanley Donen. And Terry comes in and goes, �Ahhh! Your scene, just great!� And never in my life have I experienced black to white, just like that. And Wolker comes in and was like, �Oh, our little genius!� And I took another walk, and I was like, �you know what? That�s going to be my career. People are either gonna really like it or really hate it, and that�s the way it�s fucking gonna be.�

That’s one of things about Tarantino that I’ve long admired. As a sophomore (maybe junior?) in high school I probably watched Pulp FIction more times than I can count. I bought in on VHS and wore the tape out. In the decade or so since then he hasn’t directed many movies, but he’s always stayed true to his vision. Whether it’s remixing martial arts movies for Kill Bill or paying homage to blaxploitation with Jackie Brown. Admittedly I still haven’t seen Grindhouse.

This is where my computer battery died. I continued to take notes by hand, but obviously this guy talks too fast to really keep up that way.The one memorable moment that I was able to get down pretty much verbatim: the moderator asked him why he likes to use pop music in his movies instead of original score. And Quentin said�

I just don�t trust any composer to really do it. Who the fuck is this guy coming in here, putting his shit over my movie? What if I don�t like it? And if I was in a situation like that, chances are, I WOULDN�T like it. Fuck that!

So there you go.