The Chinese calendar may state otherwise, but 2012 is most assuredly the year of Mark Duplass. After all, the multi-hyphenate extraordinaire has four films in theaters as an actor and two others, Kevin, Who Lives at Home and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, which he co-wrote and directed with his older brother, Jay. In director Colin Trevorrow‘s Sundance Award-winning Safety Not Guaranteed, Duplass stars as Kenneth, a troubled guy who, convinced he can travel through time, is looking for a partner to go back with him. In Lynn Shelton‘s Your Sister’s Sister, he’s a damaged guy, still grieving the loss of a brother from one earlier, who gets caught in between his longtime friend (Emily Blunt) and her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt). I had a chance to sit down with Duplass one-on-one recently, and chat about those delightful films, the differences in his working relationships with each of the two directors, the perils of bicycle-smashing and… jean shorts. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the lively, considerably awesome read.