Demetri Martin on becoming Elliot Tiber

By Nick Dawson On August 27, 2009

Demetri Martin, the star of Taking Woodstock - which goes on release through Focus Features tomorrow - has been on the interview trail. Martin, who plays Elliot Tiber in the movie, recently sat down with Todd Gilchrist from Cinematical and spoke to him, among other things, about the challenges and processes of portraying a real-life character:

"I knew I was playing someone who exists for real, and he's still alive, so I got to meet Elliot. But at the same time Ang said, "I don't want you to do an impressions of this guy. Elliot's at a different place in his life now than where he was at the time in which you're portraying him." It was interesting because at that time, Elliot was pretty repressed and pretty quiet and I guess pretty shy and definitely kind of awkward, at least from some accounts. I remember they would say some things, and then you meet Elliot now and he's not really shy or quiet; he's really developed into a person who's figured himself out, I guess, or at least much more comfortable with himself. So the first thing was, okay, I'm not really doing an impression of a person as much as I'm trying to give some details and capture his essence at that time of his life."

You can read the entire interview here.