Glenn Howerton talks about the BlackBerry, email, hockey, and the rise and fall of the OG smartphone.
"What he's trying to achieve is actually ... if not noble, then at least rootable." Glenn Howerton as Jim Balsillie, the sales force that helped make BlackBerry a global phenomenon, in new satire/tech history, there's a whiff of pizza boxes, dust, solder, and old sweat, so perfectly is the sub-macho mood of a late-90s startup captured."We were trying to capture the realities of those situations," says star Glenn Howerton,"especially the engineers.
“Anyone who’s ever tried to innovate on a massive scale, the way that they did, has to be a little bit of an asshole.”earlier this year in Austin , and with its mix of movie culture and tech money, there may have been no more perfect place for a product launch/premiere. "This co-ceo model was great for some things," Howerton says."For example, Jim didn't know anything about the tech, and Mike had a handle on the innovation side of things, and he knew that he just had to do what he was good at, which was sell phones. But it was also their downfall, because at the end there Jim was like, 'Well, is the iPhone gonna kill us? I don't know. I'm hearing that this iPhone thing coming out is not good, but that's not my department.
"This co-ceo model was great for some things [but] they both ended up thinking the other one had the wheel." Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton as Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the duo behind the game-changing smartphone in: When you first see Jim, you want to hate him.
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