This year's documentary smash hit Super Size Me will be followed by a sequel in 2005.
Morgan Spurlock, director, writer and actor of this year's documentary Super Size Me, is currently working on a sequel. Super Size Me Too is promised to be even more thrilling.
We met Spurlock in a New York cafe to talk about his new film.
"I was figuring that any single food or drink could be poisonous, once you take nothing else. So in the next Super Size Me I will be drinking water for a month, and take nothing else."
Spurlock, who is already in the first week of filming, started to notice early signs of stress and hunger. While we were eating a healthy salad (being impressed by the fast food bashing of his first big hit), he was restricting himself to a glass of plain cold water, his hands shaking.
"The first day isn't too bad. Except you're quite hungry when you go to sleep. Of course you drink a lot of water, which is [totally] addictive." Spurlock takes another sip. "The second day seems to be bad, but it's just [that] you're not used to it. Third day, your body will get calm again and pain fades."
Spurlock's personal doctor Daryl Isaacs warned him this time he might not get away lucky.
"Water can be deadly stuff," says Isaacs, who watches Spurlock 24 hours. "It would be healthier to eat something, anything – even a Big Mac – but he wants to prove a point. If he'd start eating now there wouldn't be a movie next year, and without a movie he'll have a hard time paying his medical bills."
Spurlock had to leave early into the interview, meeting outside the cafe with his cameraman. Alexandra Jamieson, Spurlock's vegan ex-girlfriend who is now dating Michael Moore, wasn't available for an interview. She did send an email to FakeToday later on telling us she's "totally into documentary film makers, especially if they're on a mission from God – or whoever it is setting their wild hearts on fire."
By FakeToday correspondent Philipp Lenssen (9/1/2004).

