Article: Jason Schwartzman: how growing up in a family full of individualists, rogues, and rebels proved good preparation for his latest film.(Interview)

The first item on every story about Jason Francesco Schwartzman is that he comes from a creative family: His mother, Talia Shire, was Mrs. Rocky in that Sly Stallone franchise; his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola; and his cousin Sofia Coppola has had a hand in Schwartzman's career, most recently by casting him as Louis XVI in her movie Marie Antoinette.

Less well known is that Schwartzman used to be a drummer for the band Phantom Planet, whose "California" was the theme song for The O.C.; and that he has a French bulldog, Arrow, who is the sibling to the dogs of writer-director Mike White. Schwartzman has close ties--related through animals, vegetables, and other ...

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