In advance support for War, Inc., releasing May 23 from First Look after its not very well received Tribeca presentation, writer-actor John Cusack sits for an interview of decent length with the English language Al Jazeera channel, which can be found in two parts on YouTube (part one here, running six-and-a-half minutes; part two here, running 13-plus minutes, the first five-and-a-half of which can be skipped since they focus on celebrities more broadly). A political satire about the privatization of war — co-written by Cusack, with Mark Leyner and Jeremy Pikser (who did good things with Bulworth), and starring he, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley, Hilary Duff and Dan Aykroyd — the movie finds the dryly sardonic Fan of Black slipping back into a pro forma version of his conflicted Grosse Pointe Blank hit man, here sent to bump off a Middle Eastern oil minister and consolidate power for an American company run by a former vice president.

Mainly because the questions seem to come from Billy Bush, the chat is fairly reserved and full of expected stuff — Cusack deriding the “conveyor belt” mentality pervasive in society today, and talking about keeping his sense of outrage and independence — though one wonders how it plays overseas. The most interesting portion comes late in the interview, when Cusack says that there’s a “vision of the world that corporate ethics are our national interests. And I just don’t think as a citizen, or a spiritual creature, or even as a thinking creature that we should accept that. I don’t want to be a shareholder in a great, ecumenical college of corporations. That’s not my thing. I don’t want to join that party.”