Not that Catherine Keener and Cameron Diaz could figure it out. Once Keener said yes, Diaz followed. For her, the big wig was a huge attraction. In character, Diaz's pretty head looks like it has exploded into hair shrapnel. Every movie, by the way, always ends up being about hair, for everybody, for every actor.
Audiences look at it constantly, whether in closeups or long shots.
So actors worry, Diaz says. The actor with the least hair in a major role here is mature Orson Bean, who plays Cusack's boss at the low-ceiling office. He has an enormous respect for the quality of writing and direction that Kaufman and Jonze brought to the movie. And most movies with a strange, weird premise like this one are cynical or heartless. Yet I find this movie to be neither.