"Up in the Air" and high from the stress

Director Jason Reitman's international press tour with all the dull bits taken out

February 20, 2010 at 9:32PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Ever wonder what it's like to be a film director on a three-month publicity tour? Jason Reitman thinks it's like this:

Three hundred interviews on his U.S./European "Up in the Air" press tour compressed into a rocket sled blur.

That's me at 0:50, right after the hamburger. Appropriate, I guess.

I wish George Clooney did something like this on his press tours, but I'm thinking it would be Not Safe For Work.

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