Michael Cera Tells His Story of Having Text Conversations With a Stranger Who Accidentally Contacted Him

Actor Michael Cera recently told his story about eight months worth of text conversations that he had with a stranger to the Shouts & Murmurs department of The New Yorker. His text message friend Jeremy started off as an unknown number that popped up on his phone one day in December. Jeremy had no clue that he accidentally started a dialogue with the famous actor.

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/5 9:46 PM

sup you comnig to this thing?

MICHAEL 12/5 9:46 PM

hi oops I don’t know this number. I’m Michael, who is this?

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/5 9:58 PM

oops my mistake

MICHAEL 12/5 9:58 PM

hahahaha no problem—happens…where are you anyway? Like what city? Los Angeles? or…

MICHAEL 12/5 10:06 PM

I’m in LA

MICHAEL 12/5 10:34 PM

haha. I don’t really recognize your area #

MICHAEL 12/6 1:30 PM

you should come to town one night and I’ll take you to a party at my buddy Michael Cera’s house

MICHAEL 12/6 1:43 PM

the actor haha

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/7 4:53 PM

you know him? yahh man thad be sick hes a cool

MICHAEL 12/7 4:59 PM

really? you don’t think his range is limited?

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/7 5:04 PM

lol nah whadever may be true

MICHAEL 12/7 5:14 PM

hahahahahahha

MICHAEL 12/7 5:19 PM

anyway i was just kidding before that’s actually me

MICHAEL 12/7 5:25 PM

hahaha

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/7 5:37 PM

huh? yur michael cera??

MICHAEL 12/7 5:38 PM

hahahahahahaah

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/7 5:39 PM

tha actor?

MICHAEL 12/7 5:41 PM

yes except I spell it with capital letters at the beginning of my first and last names, kind of like a display of common respect kind of thing

MICHAEL 12/7 11:48 PM

but yeah I’m that Michael Cera. . .

MICHAEL 12/8 7:11 AM

didn’t catch your name btw. . .

UNKNOWN NUMBER 12/9 12:39 PM

yah my name is jeremy i live in delano ca. had your number confused with a friend from la lol. sorry bout that. peace

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