I met with Michael Stuhlbarg three different times during the course of the film.
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I talked about many of my friends on the original Mac teams, especially Burrell Smith, Bill Atkinson, Bud Tribble and Susan Kare.ĭid you have the opportunity to meet the actor who portrays you in the film? Did you spend any time together? It must be both flattering and a little odd to see yourself portrayed by someone else - how did you find the actor’s performance? He also asked about how my relationship with Steve evolved over the years, and why he stayed friendly with me.ĭid you share any stories that illuminated a certain facet of Jobs’s character at that point in his life?Īs you probably know, about 10 years ago I wrote a website/book of anecdotes about developing the original Mac, called “Revolution in the Valley.” I referred to various stories in the book when I was talking with Aaron, and around the third time I mentioned it, he said “Okay, I give up” and promised to read it, although I’m not sure if he ever did.ĭid you talk about others who were part of the early Mac team? Initially, he was mainly interested in what it was like at the launches, but later he asked more about what it was like interacting with Steve or how Steve would respond to a given situation. What aspects of your relationship with Steve Jobs did Sorkin seem most interested in? Basically, he convinced me it was not a documentary, so veracity is secondary to artistic considerations, and “it’s a painting, not a photograph.” I pointed out that it didn’t happen in reality, and we had a lengthy discussion about artistic license, about how okay it is to diverge from reality. Later, via email, he asked me how Steve would react to a specific situation, involving the speech demo failing. He did not specifically ask about my relationship with Steve, or even hint that he was considering making me a character in the movie, but in hindsight he was obviously thinking about that. In our first meeting, Aaron told me about his three-act, behind-the-scenes-at-three-launches framework, and then asked me for any details I could remember about backstage at any of the events. I love Aaron’s writing, so of course I agreed to cooperate, meeting with him at the Four Seasons hotel in Palo Alto and then later corresponding by email as he was working on the script.īy the way, I did not get paid for any of this - I did it because of my respect for Aaron’s work. Re/code: How did you came to be involved in the film? Did Aaron Sorkin seek you out?Īndy Hertzfeld: I was initially contacted by the producer of the movie, Scott Rudin, in September 2012, asking me if I’d be willing to meet with Aaron Sorkin to discuss my experience working with Steve. We interviewed Hertzfeld about his involvement in the project and his appraisal of the completed work. But Sorkin sought out several key figures from Jobs’s early life while developing the story, which is set backstage in the minutes before three pivotal product launches spanning his career - beginning with the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh and ending with the 1998 unveiling of the iMac.Īmong those Sorkin consulted was Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Macintosh team, who chronicled the computer’s development, from skunkworks project to launch and beyond, in his book “Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made.” He also appears as a character in the film. 9, doesn’t attempt to faithfully recount a history of the Apple co-founder’s life. Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin have created what they call an “impressionistic portrait” of one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic figures in their forthcoming film, “Steve Jobs.”
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