Lonely, I’m Not gets company on April 10, when the world premiere Paul Weitz play begins previews at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. Screen favorites Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby star in the comedy, directed by Trip Cullman. Lonely, I’m Not will officially open on May 7.

At an age when most people are discovering what they want to do with their lives, Porter (Grace) has been married and divorced, earned seven figures as a corporate “ninja,” and had a nervous breakdown. It’s been four years since he’s had a job or a date, and he’s decided to give life another shot. Lonely, I’m Not is a comic journey that follows Porter as he meets an ambitious young businesswoman (Thirlby) who is overcoming her own obstacles to emotional success.

Joining Grace and Thirlby on stage will be Christopher Jackson, Mark Blum, Lisa Emery and Maureen Sebastian. Lonely, I’m Not features scenic design by Mark Wendland, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Matt Frey, sound design by Bart Fasbender and projection design by Aaron Rhyne.
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True, it doesn’t get much darker than being under alien attack, and that’s the plight of several teens who are in Moscow when the assault begins in this sci-fi tale.

Emile Hirsch (“The Girl Next Door”) and Joel Kinnaman, who was cast recently for an upcoming remake of “RoboCop,” are among those caught up in the mayhem as landmarks explode around them. Rachael Taylor (“Charlie’s Angels”), Olivia Thirlby and Max Minghella also star in the tale that clearly was engineered for the 3-D effects that enhanced it in theaters. DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; audio commentary by director Chris Gorak; deleted and extended scenes. ** (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and Movies on Demand)

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ickets are now available for the world premiere of Paul Weitz’s comedy Lonely, I’m Not, starring screen favorites Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby. Performances will begin at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theater on April 10, and the play will officially open May 7. Trip Cullman directs.

At an age when most people are discovering what they want to do with their lives, Porter (Grace) has been married and divorced, earned seven figures as a corporate “ninja,” and had a nervous breakdown. It’s been four years since he’s had a job or a date, and he’s decided to give life another shot. Lonely, I’m Not is a comic journey that follows Porter as he meets an ambitious young businesswoman (Thirlby) who is overcoming her own obstacles to emotional success.

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Playing Denise, a nurse who works at the shelter, is Juno star Olivia Thirlby, who talks about how she prepared for the role and praises both her co-star, Paul Dano, and the film’s director, Paul Weitz.
In order to prepare for the role Thirlby did research by volunteering at a shelter, which was an eye-opening experience for her. She reveals, “After being in the shelter all day, I’d walk out into the night with a very different perspective. My eyes were opened to people on the street. The experience influenced my portrayal of Denise; to be at work full-time in a shelter speaks volumes about a person’s character, their tendency to help others — and themselves.”

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The actor has been cast as the lead in the Off Broadway production of Lonely, I’m Not, about a divorced businessman who tries to rebuild his life four years after suffering a nervous breakdown.

The play, which Weitz also penned, has yet to be given a start date, but Grace is “terrified” at the prospect of performing in front of a Broadway audience.

He tells WENN, “I have a play coming up in New York that will be starring Olivia Thirlby from Being Flynn and Topher Grace… It’s called Lonely I’m Not and Topher is terrified because he’s never done Broadway before.”

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I do, I kick major butt in Dredd,” Thirlby said. “I get to kill people. I break a guy’s neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it’s pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.”

No helmet though. “No, actually. The helmet, you know what, I’m not going to say anything.”

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What attracted you to this part?
When I read the script, the whole thing was just really good. I felt like I hadn’t read and certainly haven’t played this character before. She’s a young woman who is thrown into emotionally gray areas and deals with them in a very human way, which is imperfectly. I didn’t want her to be a scapegoat or a kind of jezebel character. We talked a lot about her sexuality. We didn’t want it to be overt—we didn’t want her to be oozing sex—but we definitely wanted to show that there was something about her that men really liked.

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But moment to moment, smile to smile—there are an uncommon number of gentle smiles, and many of them are Thirlby’s—from emphatic sound design to precise framings, Nobody Walks is decidedly a movie about variations (and variables) of feeling and sensation. It leaves a bittersweet bruise.

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But Thirlby’s Martine is more of an enigma, seemingly untouched and blasé about what she has wrought on the family. Perhaps that’s the point. And her vagueness as a character is a result of the fact that she doesn’t yet know who she is either. But if Nobody Walks is also her story, viewers might appreciate getting to know her a little better.

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So things get pretty physical with your character in ‘The Darkest Hour.’ I heard you did all your own stunts.
I did. I got banged up with a lot of gnarly bruises, but it was fun. It was interesting. It took a lot of endurance.

I’ve always been curious if doing your own stunts is actually fun.
It’s a kind of a matter of necessity, like some things they can’t use a double for because they need to be able to see my face. It’s also a matter of what kinds of stunts there are, like there’s certain stunts that I wouldn’t have been capable of doing, but all of our stuff for ‘Darkest Hour’ was me on the rig hooked up to wires. It was mostly just falling and being dragged.

All the aliens in this film are computer generated. Is it tough to elicit that type of emotion when what you’re supposed to be freaked out about isn’t even in front of you in the first place?
It is difficult to shoot in that respect, because a lot of the time the things that you’re supposed to be reacting to don’t exist yet, so it can be a challenge in that regard, because you do really have to use your imagination to convincingly seem like you’re terrified of something, which at the time the camera is rolling, it is completely not there. When we were filming ‘The Darkest Hour,’ we didn’t even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn’t even have a graphic reference. So it was defnitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you’re just generating them from your own imagination.

So you’ve got ‘The Darkest Hour’ and the ‘Dredd’ coming out. Were you a big sci-fi geek growing up?
To be honest, I wasn’t a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by [Kurt] Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it’s generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

Did you even bother watching the original ‘Judge Dredd’ movie with Sylvester Stallone, or did you want to go in with a clean slate?
I actually didn’t watch the original one intentionally, and I still haven’t. But I think that at this point, it’s not an intentional choice. I am excited to see [the original], and whenever I have the chance [I will]. But during shooting, I decided not to watch it, just because the film we were making really has nothing to do with it, and I didn’t want to get influenced by it at all.

With ‘Dredd’ — and to a certain extent, ‘Being Flynn,’ based on ‘Another Bullshit Night in Suck City’ by Nick Flynn — do you feel more pressure because both of them have an established fan base?
Yeah, definitely. Of course, the Nick Flynn fan base is very different from the ’2000 AD’ fan base [laughs]. It’s a little daunting [for 'Dredd'], where I am personifying a character which already exists very firmly in people’s minds, and that people have an attachment to and have an affection for. But my hope is that people respond to it and they feel that it’s something that complements their imaginations and the ideas that they already had built up, instead of conflicting with them. All I can do is hope and pray that I won’t be disappointing anyone.

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