Garrett Hedlund only got as far as his plan A, which was to drive his Chevy S10 to LA and be cast in his first film before the age of 19. All went according to plan, and by the time he flew off to Malta to shoot for Troy, he had already put plans B and C behind him, along with the life on his parents’ farm in Minnesota. Now at 25, Garrett is onto his second blockbuster film, but this time as the lead character in the film Tron Legacy.

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Ever since Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights to Jack Kerouac’s beloved beat generation road trip novel On The Road in the seventies, he’s been trying to get it made into a film. The latest development? Tron Legacy’s Garrett Hedlund is in talks for one of the lead roles.

The book is closer than ever to getting filmed, though it’s still taken ages. Despite Coppola hiring Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles and scriptwriter Jose Rivera to handle it in 2005, very little has been heard of it since then, beyond rumours of Control’s Sam Reilly getting the part of Sal Paradise, the character Kerouac based on himself.

According to Production Weekly, Hedlund is circling the other leading part, that of Dean Moriarty (whom Kerouac took from real-life beat hero Neal Cassady) and the film might actually get to shoot this summer. Emphasis strongly on the might…

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SourceAgain, you’re working with buzzy young talent on Love Don’t Let Me Down.You’ve got Garrett Hedlund, who’s the star of the upcoming Tron Legacy…
I know. When I met him, he was shooting Tron. Who knows what Tron is going to be? I think it’ll be a huge success and people will know who he is, but it’s like when I met Carey. She had done An Education and we didn’t know what that would be, but there was something special in her. When I met Garrett, I felt the exact same way.

I saw a video of Gwyneth doing karaoke at the wrap party.
[Laughs] Yeah, yeah. Gwyneth singing. I mean, that’s another cool thing about this movie, is that Gwyneth, Leighton, and Garrett are all really singing in the movie. We’re not revoicing any of them. It’s all original songs. Gwyneth — as you saw — even in karaoke when she’s just having fun, she has a beautiful voice.

How did you know Garrett could sing?
I went to karaoke with Garrett.

Where at?
Koreatown, I think?

The Brass Monkey?
Yeah! [Laughs] We went to the Brass Monkey, we both got really drunk, and we did karaoke.

So for actors who have to audition via karaoke in the future, what would you and Garrett recommend?
I think he did a Pearl Jam song. It really wasn’t the best showcase ever of his voice, but Garrett went to school for us. Literally, he took four months off and started learning how to play the guitar, took voice lessons, went to Nashville early, started working with Nathan Chapman, a record producer in Nashville who produces Miranda Lambert. I mean, he became a country singer.

It sounds like you took a leap of faith in casting him. He had a long ways to go.
It was definitely a leap of faith, and there was definitely a point where we thought, “OK, are we going to have to revoice him? Is he making enough progress?” And then when you hear him sing and you hear the songs in the movie, I think everyone is gonna be blown away. I don’t know if you’ve ever met him, but he has a beautiful speaking voice. I just knew out of that voice, there had to be something special.

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