Jason Schwartzman talks adult-bonding sex comedy 'The Overnight'

There are many ways to consume Jason Schwartzman's new movie, The Overnight, opening Friday at the Ritz Five. Watching it in a public place where others can happen by - say, an office right before you are set to interview star Schwartzman - is not the best way to experience the surprisingly sweet sex romp about considerably more than sex.

"I know that feeling," Schwartzman said. "I was on an airplane, and I was in between two people. The woman on my left was really old. I was watching some movie, and it had a crazy sex scene. It wasn't changed or censored. I looked to my left, and there's this 85-year-old woman eating airplane soup. It was a terrible feeling."

Of the movie where he sports a sizable prosthetic male member, he added sardonically, "I can't wait for this to be on JetBlue."

In The Overnight, Schwartzman, who has worked consistently since getting his big break as Max Fischer in Wes Anderson's Rushmore, plays the type of cool parent who wears a fedora and feeds his kid only the best in organic fare. He befriends Alex (Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott, who also serves as producer) and Emily (Orange is the New Black's Taylor Schilling) by inviting them over for a play date/dinner party, leading to more adult activities than the usual get-together (skinny dipping, copious drinking, emotional revelations, etc.).

For Schwartzman, though, the movie is less about sex and more about adults' difficulty making new friends, especially when children become the center of their lives.

Schwartzman homed in on that when reading the script, he said. But he didn't have much time to ponder. He was pressed for a decision on whether he wanted to do it. Scott's participation and their schedule - shooting for only 12 days, 10 of them at night - made him pull the trigger.

"There was a chance the movie was going to be shot during the day, and they would black out the windows," Schwartzman said. "But it would have changed the movie because we would have been texting people or calling people. Everyone we knew was asleep, so we were only talking to each other. That's a feeling that's missed on movie sets, just cast and crew hanging out."

The cast bonding, Schwartzman said, allowed him to try new things and take his character, Kurt, as far as he needed to go - which was pretty far.

It also didn't hurt that the cast was exhausted by the nighttime schedule.

"Shooting at night provided a deliriousness," he said. "You couldn't overthink anything because there was no time, and you were out of it. It's like being jet-lagged. Your boundaries are just lowered. Your guard is down."

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