“We all started chatting again”: After Being Left Out of Barbie Group Chat, Michael Cera Revived His Scott Pilgrim Group With the Weirdest Email to Chris Evans
Michael Cera is the face of dorky teens and coming-of-age characters in Hollywood. He has done various roles in his career of lifetime as an actor, but Cera seems to have a knack for playing the awkward one. He was most recently seen in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie as Ken’s best friend Allan Sherwood.
In the most Allan fashion possible, Cera was infamously not a member of the Barbie cast group chat because he is too Y2K to own an iPhone. Recent reports suggest that the Canadian actor instead revived a decade-old one from one of his most notable works.
The Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Group Chat
The 2010 romantic action comedy, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is probably Michael Cera‘s magnum opus. Based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the film was not successful on the financial front. Critics applauded the film’s humor and uniqueness in terms of visual effects. Over the years, it has developed a devout fanbase.
Making a group chat for all the stars in a movie is a custom Hollywood has started taking seriously. Celebrities often share what goes on in those group chats in promotional interviews. The custom has now become ubiquitous but it is not new. When every human being did not show up attached to a phone, there were emails. Computers were the beacon of communication. And following the human tendency to congregate, they used to have email chains back in the day. A ritual in which celebrities enthusiastically partook.
The cast ensemble of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World also had the group chat equivalent in 2010. Interesting conversations must have happened in the email chain with Michael Cera, Chris Evans, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, and Jason Schwartzman.
But as a tale as old as time, group chats are not exempt from dying from dryness.
Michael Cera’s Weird Email to Scott Pilgrim Star Cast
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is returning in animated form on Netflix. And all of the original star cast is returning to voice their characters. As promotions for the same are going on, an interesting story has surfaced.
In conversation with Entertainment Weekly, creator O’Malley has shared an anecdote about the hilarious exchange between former co-stars Cera and Evans over the email chain. The author said ahead of the animated series’s making, Cera revived the decade-old dormant email chain in the weirdest way. O’Malley said:
“The cast have spoken about this email chain a lot but there’s one detail that I don’t think anyone has mentioned. We were exchanging emails when the movie was coming out and then this thread went dormant for about nine years. Then, before this anime was even on the docket, Michael Cera responded to a meme someone had sent as if no time had passed. He just said, ‘Oh, that’s funny.’ Chris Evans responded like, ‘Michael, what the fuck are you doing responding to this email from nine years ago?’ And then we all started chatting again.”
Fans loved this little sneak peek into the dynamic between the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World cast. And the animated series is one of the most highly anticipated projects on Netflix this November.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off will be released on November 17, 2023, on Netflix.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
