It’s always a good time to remember something about Steve Jobs!
Steve Jobs will always be relevant. And it is that both those who knew him and those who have not always had a say in the anecdotes, teachings and failures of the charismatic founder of Apple. Between them, actor Ashton Kutcher, protagonist of the movie “Jobs”, who often remembers this famous character.
During several interviews, When asked what would have been his most difficult job to perform, Kutcher immediately responded by putting himself in the shoes of “Jobs”, who noted how “the Leonardo da Vinci of our generation”
A meeting that never happened
Playing Jobs was a challenge that fell like a glove for Kutcher, who declared himself a fan of Jobs and personally knew others who worked closely with the visionary. Which gave Kutcher an added incentive for biographical justice. In an interview with The edge in 2013 he said:
I almost felt compelled to play the role defensively. I want to make sure he’s protected. Even though he completely screwed up and bombed it, I love this guy. I like this guy. I’d rather someone who cares mess it up than someone who doesn’t care.
Despite Kutcher’s satisfaction at stepping into the shoes of one of his idols, the then-young actor couldn’t fulfill his dream of meeting him personally. Before Jobs died in 2011, Kutcher was offered a meeting with the businessman he would soon play.
I was lucky enough to meet him about six months before he passed away and I was working that day and couldn’t go. Looking back, I look back and think, “I had the opportunity to meet the Leonardo da Vinci of our generation. And I lost it.”
Given the significance of Kutcher’s performance, the actor went through a long process of preparing for the rolewith classes studying audio recordings of Jobs himself to learn how to imitate his speech patterns.
I dedicated myself in a way that I had never dedicated myself to a role before. I spent three months preparing, watched hundreds of hours of footage and had a 20 hour audio file that I listened to in my car or when I fell asleep to capture how he spoke; its cadence and intonations.
So I worked harder on that than anything else.
The film “Jobs” was released in 2013, a little over a year after the physical departure of Steve Jobs. The story that took place during the first years of Apple failed to convince the followers of the firm with the bitten apple. But in his performance, Kutcher definitely did his idol justice.
Later, in 2015 “Steve Jobs” was releasedan adaptation of his authorized biography, starring Michael Fassbender, which performed no better than “Jobs”.
