Looking ahead, you’re doing the “cancer comedy” with Seth Rogen. Is it called I’m With Cancer?
I don’t know what it’s called. One minute it’s I’m With Cancer, the next minute it’s The Untitled Cancer Comedy. The expectation is kind of weird because I don’t think it is a comedy. It’s about a guy who gets cancer and then gets better — that story can’t just be a comedy. That story has to be sad, too. Or fucking cautionary at least. If it is just a comedy, I wouldn’t do it.

I guess people call it a comedy because Seth Rogen’s in it.
Yeah, but it’s also about Seth’s life. It’s happened to Seth and his best friend, so that’s not just a comedy. Although, it’s very funny a lot. It’s also very sad a lot. I play a guy called Adam who’s based on the writer, Will Reiser, who got cancer when he was 25. Seth and him are best friends, and he got a very particular type of rare cancer with very little chance of getting better, and he got better. It chronicles his time going through treatment, and what it is to have cancer — not just for anybody but for a young person, as well.

A new director was just hired for the movie, The Wackness’s Jonathan Levine. Do you have any idea how the style might shift with the change of directors?
Not really. [Lovely & Amazing's] Nicole Holofcener is a fantastic director and we’re really sorry to lose her. I think Jonathan’s gonna be a fantastic director as well. Stylistically yes, the film’s gonna be different. But every director approaches every film differently, so I don’t know. I wouldn’t wanna label things now before we start it. There’s no use making anybody feel judged before we even begin. The slate should be completely clean.

You’ve also been attached to an Ian Fleming biopic. Is that just a rumor?
I’m not attached to it. Somebody was very naughty and said I was, and they shouldn’t have. I read it and I really liked it, but I never had a conversation with the producer and I never attached myself to it. I may end up doing it but just as equally may end up not.

How is Wanted 2 coming along?
We don’t know, it’s still up in the ether. I know they want it to happen. Wanted 2 is definitely wanted by Universal. But whether it happens now, tomorrow, next year, in two years, or never, all possibilities are possible. “All possibilities are possible,” did I really say that?

Were you onboard with a sequel from the get-go, or did you have to think about it?
I’m signed up to do it. When I did the first one I had to do a sequel. So I am Wesley. Unless they fire me, that is, which is their right.

Would you like to keep varying it up between big action movies and quieter films like this? I think Christian Bale does it well.
Not really. I don’t really see myself as an action guy. I did an action movie, but the part that I played was tailor-made for me to be an action guy and I don’t think I would suit most action-guy roles. So I wouldn’t go chasing them. I’ll do the sequel and all that if it happens, but I don’t think I’d actively seek another action franchise or comic-book adaptation. But who knows? Tomorrow it’ll be in the papers: “I will be doing Superman 15,” or something like that.

Or the next James Bond?
I would never, ever, ever play James Bond.

Why not?
I love it, but I’m not James Bond. I’m just not James Bond. I think there should be a female James Bond. We should have a female Doctor Who, at that.

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