Bar relaxing along the French Broad is the headquarters of the Favorites last year directed a big budget Hollywood movie The hunger Games … it’s one of the few places that Ross and members of the crew and the star-studded cast is often because they are filmed in the forests of Western North Carolina.

Ross recalls time in Asheville recently as the movie opened Friday for the roaring buzz and fans continue to connect the dots with local stars who stopped there.

I remember the night in Bywater, raise the stump, sit by the water and listening to music; riding a bike along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Ross recalled.

And roll over on Lexington Avenue passes through the record store that is used and the coffee shop, and pulled a book off the shelf book Exchange (Battery Park) and read verses, Ross said.

There’s simplicity and sophistication, he said Asheville. It’s disconnected from the outside world on the road because of the terrain, but it’s connected.

EVERY time Susan Sarandon starts a new job, he’s scared. “Any one film is a new universe with a new language,” said Sarandon.

His latest film universe, “Jeff who lives at home,” opening this weekend in cinemas area, is one of the titular Jeff (Jason Segel) believe ruled by fate. Jeff is a stoner-friendly that has trapped himself in the care of his mother, waiting until the universe presents big plans for her. His brother is fellow spicy, Pat (Ed Helms), which has a more cynical view of life. Tying them together is Sarandon’s suffering of Sharon.

Sarandon was interested in “Jeff” partly because of how directors, brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, work. Duplasses famous comes to a scene with a frame script and allows actors to improvised their dialogue so that a natural sounding as possible. Mark Duplass, who stopped by at the Philadelphia Film Festival last fall, said that “Jeff” should be more tightly plotted than previous films, such as “the Cyrus sisters” and “the Puffy Chair.”

“There’s more than just a concept that went to the scene, but we encourage actors to re – say those lines so I do not get the same performance as when they are practicing in the mirror. Thus, narratively speaking, it never veers off course, “said Duplass, which can also be seen as Pete on FX’s fantasy football-centric comedy” the League. ” “It’s like telling a child, ‘ go ahead, escapes from home anytime you want, ‘ and you know they will stay close to home.”

Sarandon did not have the same background in improvisation as her co-stars, but that doesn’t matter to Duplass. “We’ve got on the phone with him, and he is confident enough to say, ‘ I don’t know if I can do this but I want to try the Duplass ‘,” said. “And that’s what we need to hear because if there are eager and willing, it is not difficult-it only takes a minute to get used to. “