“Here’s a guy he touches with his greatest resource, his mind, and it was strange betrayal that he didn’t know quite how to deal with.” “I don’t think Woz holds a grudge about it, so much as it just confuses him,” said Gad. So he gets Woz to do the work, but lies to him about how much they’ll get paid for the work. There’s a scene in the film during which Steve is working at Atari and gets a project assigned to him that he can’t do himself. “That’s why you should do what I do and eat everything but fruit,” Gad chimed in. ![]() He said that it made him feel awful, and has previously revealed that he had to go to hospital afterwards. Kutcher also spoke about trying the Fruitarian Diet that Steve Jobs was known for adhering to. “It was surreal for them to see this transpire all over again in the place where it happened.” Risks of Steve Jobs Fruitarian Diet “When we were shooting at the house we got to meet his step-mother and his sister, and so that was a pretty incredible experience,” said Gad. He said that he first spoke with Kutcher over Skype (note: not Apple’s FaceTime) to determine whether he should agree to take the role, because most of the scenes would be together. Gad says he was equally terrified of playing the role of Steve Wozniak. “All you gotta do is start repeating Steve and you sound really smart.” “I probably watched 100 hours of footage” of Jobs for research, he added, explaining that he also strung together audio files of everything Jobs said. “Stage two was just overcoming the fear of playing someone that people know,” Kutcher said. ![]() Kutcher found that playing Jobs was really scary because we have a daily reminder of him in our hands when we use our iPhones, iPads, Macs. Kutcher explained that he has never portrayed a character that isn’t fictional before, so his role as Steve Jobs presented a new challenge for him as an actor. And someone who I learned an immense amount from.” “For me,” said Kutcher, “Steve Jobs as a person – I do a lot of angel investment… work with a lot of developers on building really amazing tools – so for me, he’s an iconic hero, and someone who I try to emulate in my work.
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