Dermot Mulroney Q & A

To research Randall Hertzel, the good-hearted waterbed salesman who courts shipping-and-receiving clerk Jeannie Schmidt (Hope Davis) in About Schmidt, Dermot Mulroney went online. To MulletsGalore.com. Wearing a majestic mullet and a droopy mustache, Mulroney is virtually unrecognizable from the heartthrob who once wooed Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding. Per MulletsGalore.com, Mulroney's mop is a cross between a "classic mullet" (long in back, short on top), and a "skullet" (way short on top). Whatever its name, Dermot is proud of his 'do. And proud of Randall.

On making everything perfectly clear:
The last thing I want is to be making fun of guys that are losing their hair. Fortunately, [director] Alexander Payne's movie doesn't really judge anybody. That's just my preamble: That we weren't ridiculing anyone.

On how to make a mullet:
Alexander and Jim Taylor--they wrote the description of this