BURBANK, California (AP) - Steve Martin received the title of his latest album of Bluegrass of the bird watching world. Jack Black had a recurring dream in high school that he could fly like a bird. Owen Wilson bags a bunch of decoys styrofoam the once he went to the duck hunting.
The three play eager ornithologists in "The Big Year," a comedy of opening Friday that tells an annual competition to see who can detect the more species in a year.
Martin, Black and Wilson sat down to discuss the film, birding world and their own obsessions backstage before an appearance on "Tonight Show" to promote "The year of the Big."
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AP: Have you gone birding before that you did this film?
Wilson: I've done in the direction of the long and you notice a hawk or a bird or something, and this is not a jumping big from the observation of birds.
Martin: I think that you will do a lot of birders in anger by saying: "well, walking along and it is not a big jump.". I think that they think it's a great, great jump.
Wilson: But I think that any awareness of birds they would probably applaud.
Martin: I would be upset birders. There is a huge amount of things to learn. It is not fair as walking along. Say that again tonight. It's OK to put millions and millions of people to print.
AP: So you can just say that I have misquoted you.
Wilson: exactly.
AP: Any other ornithologists experiences?
Wilson: Extinguish a bird feeder.
Martin: Shooting birds?
Black: Buy one of these horns of duck-appeal?
Wilson: Duck hunting. Have you ever been duck hunting?
Black: No, I never was on any type of hunting it. What is you spent hunting duck?
Wilson: Yes, once.
Black: Have you taken a dog? Have you taken a pooch?
Wilson: No, we went in a boat. We had like 10 or 11. I went with this friend, and his father was a great Hunter. ... We would as well as in the boat-half asleep. Suddenly, we see a few ducks in the water. I later learned that you are supposed to not even shoot at them, when they are in the water. They are supposed to be flying. And we start all just blasting. And polystyrene foam flies up to. They were decoys that other fighters put up from their Stores. If we are just blasting, just styrofoam back in the air. It was the only duck that I never shot.
AP: Steve, ever birding before that?
Martin: No, but my wife has a birder, so I learned by osmosis. And of course, I played "Birds in anger." It is the measure of it.
AP: You used an end of bird watching for your latest album of banjo, "Rare bird alert."
Martin: Indeed coming film, learning the vernacular language. I wrote the song entitled "The rare bird alert", while I was on this film, and my wife had a suggestion. She has said, "this is a really good title for a song,"Rare Bird Alert."" "It was logical, also. This is something real birders can call.
AP: Jack, bird watching?
Black: I did not have fever. ... I actually tried to get hooked, but the stumbling block is you look at a bird and it is moving, he stops for a second and you as how I will remember what I'm looking at right now? You must take a picture and then compare it to a phone-book-size book of bird species. How do I match it? How will I know what I just saw? It's take me hours. That will not happen without the constraint.
AP: What constraints seized you over the years?
Black: I was really very interested in theatre in high school and back on the scene and crafts and acting and improvisation. I remember in high school, I had a recurring dream, and that's enough on the nose as to its meaning. I dreamed that I was at the theatre in my high school and I had the power of flight and I would fly around the theatre and people would be surprised by my power of flight. And then I am would run outside the region of lunch and just immediately lost my powers of flight. I'm just walking around.
Martin: Boy, easy to interpret a dream. I could interpret this dream. Wow.
AP: Steve, obsessions?
Martin: I was, I would say, obsessed with different things at different times. I was obsessed with magic tricks, playing the banjo, was obsessed with juggling. I was obsessed with the unicycle for some time.
Wilson: That was difficult, the unicycle?
Martin: It was. The most difficult thing is to get up on it. Once you are place on it, then you can make sort of it, but to get up on it was really hard, and I never really mastered which.
Wilson: Jack, have you also?
Black: unicycle? Yes, I have done. I had a training of circus, Yes.
Martin: I tell you, it is a film. The two us on unicycles. Fight against crime unicycle guys.
AP: Owen, obsessions?
Wilson: Not so much. Perhaps what Steve said, for a short period, and this is a good feeling. I find when you can lose everything just something, I feel like that, but there usually sort the soundtracks courses. But something about the competition, such as playing a friend in pingpong, or we have been playing this game on the tennis court football when I was small. I was the kid in the neighborhood where I get in a game and I could just play it all the time. I could not find someone who will play as much as me. I always wish to, I had a twin as, which could match me for my interest in something.
AP: You enjoy birds more now?
Martin: I note more birds. I certainly do. But I am as a man of three-bird. Hummingbirds, hawks, owls. But the owls is very difficult to see. ... Oh, pics I like. I can identify a peak.
Wilson: Yeah, I would like to see a pic. I would add a cardinal.
Martin: I don't know what looks like a cardinal.
Wilson: red.
Martin: I know what looks like the Pope.
Wilson: And a Blue Jay. Those who would be the two I would add.
Black: The Eagles are the most impressive for me. Just because in the brain of my child, I just like the more powerful, more vicious.
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