“My producer today said, ‘Michael wants me to let you know he’s blond,’” Seth Meyers told actor Michael Cera when he sat down on stage during last night’s episode of Late Night. “I didn’t quite know what to expect, but I am glad he told me.”
Cera, whose natural hair is blondish brown, was sporting an uncharacteristically conspicuous head full of bleach-blond frizz. “Well, I kind of want to apologize for it a little bit,” the actor replied, though the host insisted he needn’t. “My hair is in a weird place right now. And I know this is going out on TV and everything, but that’s all I wanted to say really.”
The actor clarified that the dye job was for a role in an upcoming Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician Scheme, that he recently filmed in Berlin, which is a city where wacky, bleach-fried hair-dos are all but endemic. (The filmmaker hasn’t shared much about the forthcoming flick, though it also stars Bill Murray and Benicio Del Toro.) Cera debuted the blond last month when he attended a screening at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, though it seems the intervening downtime has left his brassy locks in need of some conditioner. Perhaps his Superbad collaborators and peroxide predecessors Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill could share some care tips.
“The thing is, I can’t cut it right now because then I’ll have, like, frosted tips,” Cera said. “Or I dye it back to my own color, and that just feels wrong.” Alternatively, may we suggest going full bore and shaping the bleached frizz into a Zoomer broccoli cut?