"I wanted to figure out why he made these choices. "There were these inconsistencies in his behavior," Kutcher said. Though the film received tepid reviews after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January and has been criticized for giving too much credit to Jobs for Steve Wozniak's vision for the personal computer, Kutcher has been praised for moments in which he seemed to embody Jobs - staring himself down in the mirror after denying paternity of his child or standing triumphantly on the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire with Wozniak to unveil the Apple II.Įven when he's showing Jobs at his most callous, Kutcher humanizes the man who died from complications of pancreatic cancer in 2011. 16 - and in comparison to Aaron Sorkin's still-uncast big-budget adaptation for Sony of Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs." Stern hopes Kutcher's star power will help the independent "Jobs" stand out among summer blockbusters when it opens Aug.
"Without being showy," said Stern, who directed "Neverwas" and "Swing Vote," "he was becoming the man."
I figured if I started studying who he was, the worst thing that could happen is that I would learn a lot about Steve Jobs."īy the time Stern walked into Kutcher's Los Angeles home for their first meeting, the actor had already begun to subtly master Jobs' speech patterns and hand gestures, even the slope of his back and the way he walked by bouncing on his toes. "I knew it was going to take a while to figure out who this guy was, where he was coming from, what made him tick. "When I read the script, the idea of someone playing him who maybe didn't care made me just want to jump at the role," Kutcher said. OBITUARY: Steve Jobs dies at 65 | Full coverage
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