Last weekend at Comic-Con, I got to sit down with Jessica Biel for an extended video interview.  While she was in San Diego to promote director Len Wiseman's Total Recall (she plays Melina), during our wide ranging conversation we talked about her favorite movies, what it was like to make Total Recall, will David O. Russell's Nailed every get released, The A-Team's disappointing box office, director Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock (she plays Vera Miles), what she collects, and a lot more.  Hit the jump to watch.

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As usual, I've time indexed the interview so you can watch the parts that interest you.

Jessica Biel Time Index

  • :10 Is Nailed ever going to come out?  She says she doesn’t think so, but she’s curious to see it.
  • :53 Talks about The A-Team and its surprising, disappointing box office.
  • 1:30 What’s her go-to karaoke song?
  • 2:12 If she was on a desert island, what movies would she take with her?  Says Goonies, Dirty Dancing, The Game, and Fight Club.  They talk about Zodiac.
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    3:21 Talks about looking back on the challenging shoot of Total Recall.
  • 4:10 Says she’s seen a rough cut of the film.
  • 4:29 How does the rough cut compare to what the initial script was like?  Says the rough cut is exactly what she signed on to do.
  • 5:32 Talks about the classification of the movie as an action movie that’s sci-fi.  Says she looks at it as “a love story drama that has a shit load of action and sci-fi.”  Talks about trying to create this strange love story amidst the crazy action stuff.
  • 6:28 What she shops for on eBay.
  • 7:02 Talks about Hitchcock.  She plays Vera Miles, who has a very complicated relationship with Hitchcock.  Talks about working with director Sacha Gervasi.
  • 8:34 Talks about the multitude of projects she’s been working on.  Says they were all well paced so it doesn’t feel like she’s been working non-stop.  At this point, she really only wants to do stuff that she truly loves.
  • 9:50 Does it suck when things leak when she’s doing a day of press?  Says not everything you read is 100% true.

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