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Jay Baruchel has always simmered beneath the surface of superstardom. I was living in Montreal a year after The Trotsky came out and there was a sense there that he was going to break out and become huge. Never really happened. We cast him in an addias spot in 2008 and I had zero idea who he was.

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He's great! Kind of reminded me of a cross between Jason Schwartzman and Nathan Fielder. Should be a star! I actually wonder if some of the Rushmore echoes in The Trotsky didn't hurt the film a little commercially.

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