Garrett Hedlund Speeds Into Stardom
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Six years after his screen debut in Troy, the 26 year old Garrett Hedlund has nabbed the kind of career any young gun in Hollywood would kill for. This month he stars with Jeff Bridges in the sci-fi blockbuster Tron: Legacy, while in Country Strong he playes a c&w songwriter who inspires the comeback of a fading singer (Paltrow).
In the meantime, he’s off filming Walter Salles’ much anticipated adaption of On The Road, having landed the charismatic Neal Cassady part. Where most young actors idolize Jack Kerouac, Hedlund is playing the guy whom Kerouac idolized.
So much success might be enough to turn a young man’s head, but when we meet at his favourite Echo Park coffee shop, what strikes me is Hedlund’s enthusiastic sweetness. “I’m driven by extremity,” he says with a small grin of his wide-ranging roles. “I like throwing myself toward everything i fear most and seeing if i come out the other side of the twister unscathed.”
A big, rawboned Midwestener with a slightly husky baritone, Hedlund effortlessly radiates what Country Strong’s writer-director, Shana Fester, calls a “masculine aura.” Unlike most young actors, she says, he doesn’t have to pretend to be a real man: He is one.
No city boy, Hedlund grew up outside a small Minnesota town, his horizons defined by the local Polaris plant where his father, mother, and brother worked.
“I think he is going to be a huge movie star,” his co-star Paltrow observes. “He reminds me of the very lovely Brad Pitt. He has this country, earthy grit about him, juxtaposed with this incredible sensitivity. It is a very sexy combination.”
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Six years after his screen debut in Troy, the 26 year old Garrett Hedlund has nabbed the kind of career any young gun in Hollywood would kill for. This month he stars with Jeff Bridges in the sci-fi blockbuster Tron: Legacy, while in Country Strong he playes a c&w songwriter who inspires the comeback of a fading singer (Paltrow).
In the meantime, he’s off filming Walter Salles’ much anticipated adaption of On The Road, having landed the charismatic Neal Cassady part. Where most young actors idolize Jack Kerouac, Hedlund is playing the guy whom Kerouac idolized.
So much success might be enough to turn a young man’s head, but when we meet at his favourite Echo Park coffee shop, what strikes me is Hedlund’s enthusiastic sweetness. “I’m driven by extremity,” he says with a small grin of his wide-ranging roles. “I like throwing myself toward everything i fear most and seeing if i come out the other side of the twister unscathed.”
A big, rawboned Midwestener with a slightly husky baritone, Hedlund effortlessly radiates what Country Strong’s writer-director, Shana Fester, calls a “masculine aura.” Unlike most young actors, she says, he doesn’t have to pretend to be a real man: He is one.
No city boy, Hedlund grew up outside a small Minnesota town, his horizons defined by the local Polaris plant where his father, mother, and brother worked.
“I think he is going to be a huge movie star,” his co-star Paltrow observes. “He reminds me of the very lovely Brad Pitt. He has this country, earthy grit about him, juxtaposed with this incredible sensitivity. It is a very sexy combination.”
Thanks to Laura at Garrettminds for the scan! | Source