Lillard Talks Curves (October 13, 2012)

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The WSJ Speakeasy has interviewed Matthew Lillard on his part in baseball drama Trouble with the Curve. Lillard is noted for playing Shaggy in the Scooy-Doo reboot and recently made headlines with his directorial debut, but he is perhaps best known for portraying Maniac in the 1999 Wing Commander feature film.

You play the antithesis of Clint Eastwood in this film, the new technology statistics guy. What did you know about baseball and statistics going into this movie.

I knew nothing. Math in general scares me in a really primal way. I know nothing about math and I?m pretty sure my 5th grader can do more math than I can.

How did you deal with ERAs and RBIs and everything you character talks about in the film?

The same way I dealt with "Scooby-Doo." It?s just not real. So I never have to actually manipulate any facts but maybe that?s just because I am not Daniel-Day Lewis enough. Did you see him, he looks so good?

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Original update published on October 13, 2012