TIFF Diary

There is so much happening on a TIFF red carpet that it’s nearly impossible to show you every interview. Melissa Raftis continues our festival coverage now with some of the lighter moments we just didn’t have time to share the first time around.

Reporter Sean Leathong: “So I’ve been asking people who was the funniest on set. Tina Fey said you. What do you think of that?”

Ben Schwartz: “Ohhh! Is that true? Ya, but then I bet she’s going to pick somebody else for everybody else and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

Not every funny moment on the red carpet comes from a known funny man.

Keira Knightly: “What makes me happy? Oh, lots of things. I had a really good vodka soda before this so that made me really happy.”

Channing Tatum tried to share a serious moment about his character in ‘Foxcatcher’. But couldn’t tune out his adoring fans outside chanting “channing”: “It’s really what’s going on underneath the surface of the story rather than what is actually physically happening. Sorry. I’m really trying to focus and I’m like oh God.”

Working alongside the legendary Bill Murray on ‘St. Vincent’ made Jaeden Lieberher nervous. But the young actor said Murray found ways to ease the tension: “Well, one time he took a golf cart and he started driving it on the horse race tracks and security was chasing him. It was pretty funny.”

Comedian Leslie Jones was eager to see herself in the Chris Dock directed ‘Top Five’ for the first time.

Melissa Raftis: “What will you be doing when you’re watching this film. Will you be looking around to see if other people are laughing? Leslie Jones: “No, I’m going to be looking at myself going ‘ok, do I look fat, do I look crazy?’ OK, that’s funny ahh!!”

‘Welcome to Me’ producer Will Ferrell has a different approach when watching his own films: “Unfortunately I ruin it for everybody. I talk throughout the movie. I’m on the phone constantly. I do a lot of things like ‘watch this part coming up, you’re gonna’ love it’.”