Garrett Hedlund on Brad Pitt in Troy and Friday Night Lights | Screen Tests | W Magazine

Описание: In this Screen Tests interview, actor Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy, Troy, On the Road) explains how he blew his first audition (the reaction, "you sucked pond water") and how he blew off his senior prom to shoot a movie with Brad Pitt.

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I was raised on a farm, so.
We only had like three television channels.
I don't really remember the first movie I saw.
I loved what films did.
I would constantly,
you know, go to the back of the VHS's
and the address for Universal Pictures
or MGM would be on there,
and I'd just start writing to the studios,
asking if I could be in their, you know, in a movie.
That's more of a what I remember, yeah.
I don't remember my first audition really well.
I just remember that I didn't do very well.
I think the phrase was after, you sucked pond water.
That's a ridiculous phrase, but.
I moved to Arizona when I was to live with my mother,
and I always wanted to be an actor,
but being in Arizona, I was only a state away.
I'd been flying from Arizona to Los Angeles
for two or three years for auditions.
Yeah, by myself.
I'd get out of school and I'd fly into Burbank Airport,
I'd get in a taxicab, I'd go to the audition.
I'd taxi back, I found out I didn't get it,
and then the whole while I'm back on Southwest,
flying back to Arizona, go to school the next day.
I was , or , , and I'd skipped
my junior year prom
to be this extra,
and then by my senior year when prom was to go on,
I was out in Malta, filming Troy.
You know, it was funny, because, you know,
the character Patrick was,
you know, I'd see little things.
References to him being a poet,
so I'd go up to Wolfgang and Brad the next day
and I'd be like, well maybe instead of this shot,
maybe you could just have me on that hilltop over there
just kind of writing a little bit.
And, they were just, yeah,
yeah, that's a good idea.
Then after Troy, I went on to go do
Friday Night Lights, the football film.
I played football for just a year in Minnesota
and then a year in Arizona.
But,
I think I,
I was never really,
I don't think I was ever the starter.
I played like defensive end.
I was always on defense, so
I wasn't the glorious position.
I wasn't the ball carrier, I wasn't the quarterback.
I wasn't the one making the touchdowns,
so I think that's where, you know.
What draws me to certain different roles
are the extremities.
I mean, doing something completely different.
I don't feel during the day that I'm the same person
on Wednesday as I am on Monday,
and our minds change, our ideas change,
our opinions change constantly.
I've been signed on to On the Road since or so,
and I just,
I remember reading the book in high school.
I went online and looked,
and it said Francis Ford Coppola's directing this,
and I was like, man, I'll never get a chance at this.
And I still, I mean, we're halfway through filming
and I still can't believe I'm a part of it.
I auditioned in like March of ',
and then I found out on my birthday
in September that I'd gotten it.
I'd had to land in Chicago for a layover,
and when I got to Chicago, my dad called me,
sang me all of Happy Birthday,
and then I land in L.A.
and I get another call from
home in Minnesota,
and it was
you know, it was news telling me that my father
had dropped of a heart attack
after he got off the phone with me.
So I was just like, I called him up in the hospital
and I said, you know, you can't do this, it's my birthday.
And he goes, I know, son.
And I said, I just got On the Road (laughs).
He's like, that's great, son.
So it was a weird balance
of you know, when there's a great amount of good
it can also be evened out by
a great amount of sort of bad in a way.
I sat down with lunch with Jeff Bridges.
Sorry about this.
If it was a car, it'd be out the window.
Just phones and gadgets and stuff,
I'm not good with them.
I don't appreciate it them the way others do.
It's like for me, you know when somebody gets a new car
and they're so worried that scratch,
that first scratch, but after that everything's fine.
You know, everything to me in life
is like the second scratch.

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Garrett Hedlund on Brad Pitt in Troy and Friday Night Lights | Screen Tests | W Magazine