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When Janeane Garofalo sat down in the suite full of interviewers, she was clad in jeans, blue platform sneakers and a shirt with the words "The Lung Rangers" written across it; there were rings on her fingers, tattoos in places seen and unseen and she was ten days shy of her 34th birthday. So far the first 33 years have been more than kind. The New Jersey bred pixie displayed her acerbic wit as a stand-up comedienne. Her success in the stand-up circuit was soon parlayed to television (critical hits The Ben Stiller Show and The Larry Sanders Show and one disastrous season on Saturday Night Live which she described as "one of the worst experiences I've ever had. There was no point to having me there.") and film (Reality Bites, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Copland, The Truth About Cats and Dogs). The film career has been especially flourishing. The past month has already seen the release of the Jerry Stahl biopic Permanent Midnight in which she has a supporting turn opposite pal Stiller. More films are to follow: The Minus Man a sci-fish pic directed by Blade Runner author Hampton Fancher and costarring Owen Wilson; Dog Park with Natasha Henstridge and Luke Wilson; Dogma, director Kevin Smith's religious dramedy with an all-star cast including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, and Salma Hayek; 200 Cigarettes, another indie starfest with Ben and Casey Affleck, Courtney Love, Gaby Hoffman, and Christina Ricci; The Bumblebee Flies Anyway with Elijah Wood; Mystery Men with Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Lena Olin, Geoffrey Rush, William H. Macy, and Pee-Wee Herman himself, Paul Reubens; and Abbie!, the biopic of 1960's figure Abbie Hoffman, a role essayed by Vincent D'Onofrio. For the moment, she's in town to discuss her role as the dryly witty FBI agent investigating a series of murders in Clay Pigeons, the very dark comedy which also stars Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix.
ON CLAY PIGEONS When the character's change of gender is broached with Phoenix and Dobkin, both are perplexed. "I guess Janeane just made something up," Phoenix jokes. "Maybe that's true, maybe it was a male." Dobkin's knee-jerk response is blunter, though appreciative: "She's crazy. It was a woman when I read it." The twenty-five year old Dobkin, who makes his feature debut with Clay Pigeons, had nothing but high praise for his intelligent leading lady. "She felt it was a good thing for her to be responsible for that misogynistic thing. And she loved Joaquin and respected Vince. She's totally herself. She doesn't care about the camera or the lights. She's there to do her thing. It doesn't take many words to get her to where she needs to be [in the scene] because she's already real. It's just a matter of finetuning."
Garofalo is equally appreciative. "Dobkin couldn't be nicer. What a nice kid! Thank God it's his first film. Sucker!," she laughs. "He doesn't know that me and Vince Vaughn are running roughshod right over him, making up lines. But he couldn't be nicer. He was so friendly and so young. I don't know if he knew he could say to the actors, "Can you just do it the way it's written?" Dobkin, for his part, smiles mischievously. He knew exactly how to handle them and relates small anecdotes of his music video directing days when he had to wrangle with singers who were either hung over or throwing tantrums.
It was actually a part written for a guy and I read the script and they were going back and forth. Should they make it a woman? And I was like, You have to make it a woman and it has to be me because it's such a misogynistic script that I've got to do it. Because I cannot abide just having women getting killed and one being kind of a vixen. So I have to do it. [Also] I wanted to be in it because I wanted to work with Vince and Joaquin and David [Dobkin, the director], who I like very much.
