Adam Horovitz Talks 'While We're Young', If He'll Continue Acting and More

Odds are you know Adam Horovitz as Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys, but it turns out, he’s actually buddies with writer-director Noah Baumbach and when he was casting up for his latest feature, While We’re Young, Baumbach offered him one of the roles in the film. Horovitz steps in as Fletcher, a soon-to-be dad who’s best friends with Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts). While Fletcher and his wife Marina (Maria Dizzia) are gearing up to become parents, Josh and Cornelia are out to relive the good old days by hanging out with two fun-loving, free-spirited 25-year-olds (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) instead.
In honor of While We’re Young’s March 27th limited release, Horovitz hit the New York City press circuit to talk about his experience making the film. In our exclusive interview, he discussed how he got involved, what it was like working on While We’re Young compared to his 1992 release Roadside Prophets, if he plans to continue acting and more.
Adam Horovitz:
00:00 - Movie press days vs. music press days.
00:28 - Knowing Baumbach for a long time and being asked to be in the movie.
00:48 - Doing some movies back in the 80s and 90s and why he returned to acting now.
01:12 - How he prepped for the film.
02:00 - Adding one too many “ums” and “likes” to the dialogue.
02:42 - Working with Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts.
03:31 - Is the baby in the film a real baby?
03:58 - How Baumbach gave him notes in between takes on set.
04:21 - His experience working on While We’re Young compared to Roadside Prophets back in the 90s.
05:00 - Will Horovitz keep acting?
05:36 - Will Horovitz do more work as a composer on narrative features?
05:46 - How Horovitz relates to his character in the movie.
06:35 - On Baumbach not calling “action.”
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[@victoriasoto1017]

I love the fact that he avoided mention BeastieBoys. Not making it about him.

[@ohreallyeliza]

I love him so much. 💜

[@bethjung9991]

Adam was sooo good in Golden Exits. I want to see him in act in movies until the day he dies

[@bassdrumdream]

Ad-Rock is maybe my favorite interviewee of all time.

[@joshuataplin7724]

absolutely love this guy

[@TheJereld]

Quick Story: I got paid for my first screenplay and was working a dishwasher job at the time. I quit that day, smoked a joint, and went to see While We're Young. During the movie I kept getting text messages from my former work. LOL!

[@badgrfan1256]

LOL never realized he was this damn funny! i could listen to him all day.

[@cactaceous]

You never seen a Beastie Boys interview before?! They were legendarily ridiculous and funny. That's kind of part of their reputation and endurance, their humor.

[@DanYeLL2003]

Yeah, they’re always ridiculously funny.

[@AroundTheWorldWithEase]

BB’s were the GenX Marx Bros.

[@eyelationcustomerservice8898]

Great job Adam! See you on the big screen!

[@misschienniet]

He can act...we saw that in the sabotage clip

[@ripraz9815]

TRUEEE

[@SunandSnowGardening]

I love how frank he is.

[@frankstein9982]

"I've known him for a long time, I just don't know how to pronounce his name."

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Does anyone think he looks like Nick Wilde from Zootopia? And his character!

[@Laura_Norda]

He was voiced by Jason Bateman, and they kind of have a similar look about them, and I can certainly see where you're coming from! Maybe when they designed Nick Wilde they took some of Jason's look into account 🤔

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

@@Laura_Norda Yes I knew it was Jason Bateman and you are right there's something similar in Ad Rock to Jason!

[@nickmoranis2865]

They are supposed to say ACTION.

[@ScottChristina]

And..................................

[@SunandSnowGardening]

Am I supposed to go now? Are we starting?

[@DanYeLL2003]

Jesus, did the interviewer just jump out of bed...lol

[@stephen300o6]

I guess Jesus is busy. Maybe he's in bed.

[@dougstyles5091]

Nowadays it's cool to look bummy, and be a dumb dummy ,and disrespect your mommy.

[@jasonnn2284]

Adam doesn't give a lot of straight answers to interviewers, so she's doing something right...