Find out how one of these days’ most popular Hollywood males works out. Garrett Hedlund wasn’t always weighing 200 pounds. Today we are stepping into the virtual world, where everything is possible. The characters can be perfectly beautiful of unbelievably ugly, the places are either luxurious or dark and terrifying and everything in this world can be shaped up. Including the bodies. Some of us, when entering a virtual world (of a game or a social network) pretend to be better – taller, smarter, cleaner, richer and so on. But what happens when, even in the virtual word, you have to put yourself out there? You start working out. Garrett Hedlund – The cowboy turned action hero You can see Garrett Hedlund in his latest movie, Tron: Legacy. He is Sam, the son of a mastermind in cybernetics, who created a parallel universe similar to a video game and has been taken prisoner by his own creation. Sam was only a child when his father disappeared. As a grown up, he turned into a rebel. One day, though, he receives a sign that his father might not be gone after all. What’s interesting about Garrett Hedlund and this movie is the fact that when you see him act, he looks perfect: perfect muscle, perfect proportions, perfect overall look. For this look, he struggled a lot. When auditioning for the role he was much skinnier. So he had to workout a lot. Threatened by a skintight suit, he began his workout with a former Navy SEAL trainer, that tells Men’s Health how the workouts went: “Garrett didn’t repeat any workouts, which helped keep him engaged” he said. This was very important for both eliminating the routine as well as for getting in 9 weeks the results that normally show in 40 weeks. Garrett had the body tonus from his previous workout program which consisted in daily 2.2 miles jogging, followed by what he called “living-room prison workout”, where he followed the example of inmate workouts: pushups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups and more. In order to gain more muscle, with the help of professional training he turned to a set of exercises with no break in between: bear crawls, tire drags and box jumps. In addition, he did overhead presses to gain strength in his shoulders. Garrett has always been attracted by sports. Growing up in Minnesota, on a farm, he developed a strong will of being put in the open and being fit. When in school, he had this idea that he wanted to be the best runner. So he started chasing cows. Whenever a cow would get scared of something and would run away from the herd, he would run as fast as he could to bring her back. This, as his first type of workout brought him the title of the best runner at his school. Source

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After three years without a movie in theaters, Garrett Hedlund has a couple of big ones.
The biggest, of course, is “Tron: Legacy,” in which he plays Sam Flynn, the son of Jeff Bridges’ character. But he also stars in “Country Strong,” which opens Friday, Jan. 7.
And he sings.

Really sings. He plays an up-and-coming country singer opposite Gwyneth Paltrow’s down-and-out one, and he performs his own vocals. Hedlund, who graduated from Horizon High School in Scottsdale after moving from Minnesota, talked about singing in front of Tim McGraw, why country singers make good actors and the value of moving around.

Question: Big year, huh?
Answer: It’s been all right, yeah (laughs). The last film I had come out in theaters came out in fall of ’07, so I guess they are kind of ambushing right now.

Q: The release schedule is good for keeping you in the public eye.
A: It’s nice. I’m happy with the marriage between the two films. They’re for different audiences, in a way. And hopefully country music can sort of bring everybody together and they can be for the same audience. But they’re two different kinds of genre films.

Q: You recorded your vocals separately, but was it hard to lip synch to the music in front of Tim McGraw?
A: I performed for Tim quite a few times. I did it on the stage, and I wasn’t even lip synching there. I sang every single one of them, because I didn’t want to look like a lip-syncher. You’ve got to have those veins popping when you’re on film, or you look like a phony. . . . I moved to Nashville last December, like a month and a half before shooting. I stayed at Tim McGraw’s cabin on his ranch and just sat in front of the fireplace playing these songs over and over and over.

Q: Were you a country music fan?
A: No. Yeah. Just because it was in the blood from home. We had one country station back in Minnesota. Singing country as a young teenager, and you want something else – rock and roll, and then you move on to rap and then country music kind of brings it back home.

Q: McGraw is good in this film. Dwight Yoakam is a good actor. Why are country singers good at acting?
A: Because they’re not scared of anything. I guess everybody’s their own different person. I just know that Tim is so driven to be the best that he can at anything. That was inspiring.

Q: How did making “Tron” and this film differ?
A: On “Tron” we had to deal with a lot of blue screen and stages. Once you understand what your obstacles are, it’s about each and every day trying to make what’s not there, there for everyone. For “Country Strong” everything’s sort of there. You just have to be honest.

Q: Do you think moving a few times when you were younger helped you out in the long run?
A: That’s just undeniable. If I never would have left Minnesota, I definitely wouldn’t be here. Sometimes that step that you have to take is such a difficult one, too. I’d never left my family and friends behind before. You do it, and you’re in Arizona and you have aspirations to be an actor, and now you have to leave everything else there and go on your own. A lot of the choices you have to make are very difficult ones to make that pay off in the end.

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There’s no turning back for Garrett Hedlund. The 26-year-old, who left his parents cattle farm in Roseau, Minn., in 2003 to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, is bound for Hollywood stardom, thanks to his breakout roles in “Tron: Legacy” and “Country Strong,” which opens in theaters this Friday. The Moment met up with the actor in a nondescript Brooklyn diner, the kind of place that Hedlund says he pictured himself working in if the whole acting thing hadn’t worked out.

Your career is at a pivotal point. What would you say is one of the biggest obstacles you had to overcome since you started acting?
My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I’d say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

Have you always been such a private person?
I guess so. I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there’s always the town gossip — “oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?” So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Jeff Bridges, who plays your dad in “Tron: Legacy,” won an Oscar shortly after you guys finished filming. Is there anything that you learned from working with him?
I learn from everyone I work with. I always enjoy watching how people react in specific situations, and if they are as comfortable on set as they are off set. With Jeff it was just nice to be working with an actor that listens and reacts — working with somebody that knows how the scene is supposed to go and isn’t married to the dialogue. You try to stick to the dialogue, but sometimes getting the point across is more important.

How did you prepare for your role in “Tron: Legacy”?
The physical demands for preparing for this role were very extensive and lasted through the entire film. I had to get my motorcycle license, and go to motorcycle training every morning from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and then drive two miles away to go do physical combat training: punches, knees and kicks. And then go into hard-core training for an hour, jumping over things and lifting weights for an hour.

So you got in great shape. That doesn’t sound so bad.
[Laughs] Yeah, I guess. But then for “Country Strong,” as much work that I put into getting in great shape, I had to put in to get into the exact opposite shape.

What was it like working on two completely different films back to back?
“Love Don’t Let Me Down,” which is the original title of “Country Strong,” was just as difficult emotionally as “Tron” was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she’s fallen down too many times and it’s an intense emotional story.

And what did you have to do to prepare for this film?
We filmed in Nashville for two months, and we got there a month early. Tim McGraw has a cabin out on his ranch so I stayed there for the month of December, and kept up with all the guitar rehearsals, ’cause I never knew how to play the guitar before. For four months after “Tron,” I sang and played the guitar every day.

Do you own a motorcycle now or play the guitar?
No. I loved the Ducati Sport 1000 I got to drive in the film, but driving a motorcycle in L.A., knowing how wild I can be at times, would be just a little too careless and selfish for my life. Being able to split the traffic and the freeway seems like something I might like a little too much. But the guitar I’ll keep up. Not publicly performing, but as a private passion. It’s too fulfilling for me to stop.

How is your life in L.A. when you are not working?
I don’t really leave the house that much. When I’m away filming, I never really get to watch any films, or I slip away from my books and the novels I’ve been wanting to read, so when I get home I really just kick my feet up and read everything I meant to read and write what I couldn’t write, or watch what I just couldn’t drag myself to the theater to watch when I was in a different city.

What are you currently reading?
I’m working through getting through all of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.”

Would you ever go back to living in a farm?
Yeah. I feel that everything that pulled me to the city slowly pushes me away from it, and everything I grew up with that pushed me away from the farm is what’s pulling me back. The peace and quiet and the freedom that I actually never realized meant as much as it did. We didn’t have any neighbors for miles, woodlands to run around in. We had a lot of things to catapult our imagination when you didn’t even know what imagination was. Life’s too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

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Garrett Hedlund is on his way to the top. The Minnesota native who made his feature film debut as a teenager alongside Brad Pitt in 2004’s Troy, has been quietly working ever since. He appeared in the football drama Friday Night Lights, the urban crime thriller Four Brothers, and most recently the long awaited Disney sequel Tron Legacy. This month he’s taking it down a notch as an old fashioned southern boy, who has an amazing voice. Hedlund stars in Country Strong, a drama that follows a music superstar who’s trying to redeem herself after a hard fall.

Last month we spoke to Hedlund about the shift from a tentpole like Tron to a simple redemption tale like Country Strong. The actor revealed the amount of training it took to pull off his performance scenes, and the amazing artists who helped meld his novice talent. It was a lot harder than he thought it would be. Check out our interview…

What made you take on this project?
Garrett Hedlund: I’d been sent the script and been told that if I responded to it, Shana[ Feste] would fly up to Vancouver where I was [I was filming Tron at the time], and meet with me over it. I remember reading the script and having tears in my eyes by the end of it. I really wanted her to come up and have this meeting. I felt honored that she would come all the way up to Vancouver to meet with me on it. It’s tricky you know, it’s like you read a tagline or a synopsis that says ‘triangular love affair that takes place on a 10 city tour’ your immediate thoughts are to set it aside or else they could have explained it a little bit differently. But Shana’s just so incredibly talented and wonderful and for her to write this and direct it the way she did and it being her second film I just feel so proud to be a part of it and proud for her.

Did you have any musical experience before this role?
GH: No. I couldn’t play at the beginning. The guy Neal Casal, who’s the lead guitarist for The Cardinals from Ryan Adams and The Cardinals had stopped by my place and four days a week we’d be playing all day, early Hank Senior songs and just things to play that had chord progression and we’d go to the studio and record to chart the progression. That was for four months and I moved out to Nashville a month and a half before and stayed at Tim’s [McGraw] ranch, a cabin. Just like anything it takes time to gain the abilities. You’ve gotta fall on your face so many times and you gotta look silly in front so many people before you finally start finding the ability and finding confidence within the approvals of others.

What do you like about your character Beau?
GH: I like just the soul of him. He’s kind of a young Kris Kristofferson. Sort of poetic and tender, and just happy to be playing for a bunch of hard working people that like to have a beer while they listen to good music. This was a happy home for him. I think I like the message of what he was about at the end of the day. Choosing love over fame. That was a big one. When that line comes up in the film I think the whole audience is going to be questioning this key line and formulate what their opinion is on it.

How does it feel to have played in dive bars and stadiums?
GH: I prefer the dive bars. It was great. I remember throughout the preparation for the guitar thinking in my mind alright, most of these guys I always see them cut in close to the fingers and obviously they have a hand double just going at it. They’re mocking chords when the camera’s further away and I was imagining this in fear that I would have to do this. Like I wanted to be able to do everything on my own. It was like these scenes are beautiful and I’ll work on these scenes and I can’t wait to do this with Gwyneth, Tim, and Leighton, these scenes. But the performing now, can we just get this over with? Our first time of performing for an audience was at The Stage [On Broadway], well the first one was “Silver Wings” but the first one we filmed was at The Stage. I just remember having so much fun up there but it also helps because I felt very great about the songs and having Hayes Carll who I admire so much as a singer-songwriter, who’s very parallel to this character, who has a real Blaze Foley kind of grit to him, so playing the songs and when you’re having fun and you’re confident and when the songs are good the audience enjoys it so it’s not hard for them to partake and just kind of really cheer and be genuine with it.
Were you a fan of country music before making this film?
GH: I was. I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. So that’s why Tim McGraw would be filling the airwaves then, and I’d be in the tractor listening to Tim’s songs and Faith’s [Hill] songs and then for him to play my father in Friday Night Lights and I got up on stage with him in 2004 and sang “I like it, I love it” but I wasn’t a country singer you know? I was like, “Can I sing, “Don’t take the girl?’” He said, ‘No, you’ll sing “I like it, I love it.” I said, ” But I don’t know the words to it.” He’s like, ‘You’ll catch on.’ ‘But why can’t I sing don’t –?’ ‘You’re not singing “Don’t take the girl!” So I’m up there kind of mouthing with him [singing] I like it, I love it. But then his guidance with this was great because he just said, you know, ‘You’ve just got to live and breathe country music. There’s thousands of people out here who are incredibly talented trying to gain success, so you need the scales that are raised to be high.’ To really live and breathe country music.
It sounds like you were surrounded by a solid group of professionals.
GH: I got to work with this guitar coach out there, this guy Rob Jackson who’s kind of the best of the best in guitar training out there and then go to the studio everyday and work with this producer Frank Liddell and engineer Luke Wooten. I’ve been working with a lot of incredible people. So I was kind of taken in by these people who were trying to help me succeed the way I wanted to succeed. Once they saw a possibility we just started running for that door.

How was going from shooting on a Vancouver sound stage for Tron Legacy to being on location in Nashville for this?
GH: It was close to like a 67 or 70 day shoot for Tron on stage, in the suit. You can’t even sit don’t during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you’re just looking at a blue screen all day. And then to being able to just wear some Levi’s jeans and a button up it, it was exactly what I wanted. It was different.

It was more real, because you were actually out in Nashville making country music.
GH: Yeah, I’d become a family with so many of the locals out there. By the time we were filming I was going to a lot of the lower Broad spots and a lot of these young musicians, or even the guys in my band like Chris Scruggs would be up at Robert’s every night. Chris Scruggs is the grandson of Earl Scruggs, who’s like the Godfather of the banjo, and Randy Scruggs. You know it’s a famous family. There was a documentary done about them in the seventies, Randy Scruggs played the guitar on my tracks for “Chances Are” and stuff like this. I mean on Youtube there’s like black and white videos of him and Earl Scruggs and Bob Dylan all in a room playing and Randy Scruggs is just 17 and won’t take his eyes off Dylan and now he’s like 57 playing the guitar for me.

How was it performing in front of those real crowds?
GH: Basically, I was becoming a lot more comfortable with the auditorium scenes by just getting up on stage and doing it. One time at the Station Inn I got up and the table right in front of me, well this guy named Jim Lauderdale, he played a lot with George Jones. He was in Gwyneth’s band as a guitarist and he was playing at The Station Inn and at intermission he took me back and he said , ‘I want you to teach my band how to play “Chances Are” and get up and sing it for the audience.” I said, ‘All right.’ So there I am after six or seven months of learning how to play the guitar now I’m teaching this band how to play. We get up on stage and play it and right in front is Gwyneth and Chris Martin and Caleb the lead singer of Kings of Leon, and Faith Hill, and Dierks Bentley. It was one of the greatest nights of my life.

With all this musical training is this something that you’re going to keep doing?
GH: Of course on my own time. It’s funny because I was on set and Terrence Howard came up to play a role in On the Road, and we’d work together on Four Brothers and we became really close and he played a lot of guitar on that and I would just sit back. He’d show me how to play but I couldn’t. The night we wrapped in Montreal he came to my room with a bottle and a guitar, and we got to take turns. We came up with a thing like, ‘You play one. I’ll play one.’ We must have played 15 songs a piece.

Have you wrapped On the Road?
GH: I just did yesterday morning [as of December 12, 2010].

So what was that experience like?
GH: It was a guerrilla shoot with the most incredible family. Walter Salles directed it and he’s put so much work into this film over the last six or seven years. I’ve been attached since September of ‘07 trying to get this project made. Being on set during the first day like, ‘we’re fucking filming On the Road‘ to today’s the day after we just finished it. It was unfortunate to part with a family you’ve come to love so immensely on this journey.

Now that you’ve wrapped that film, what do you have coming up next?
GH: Nada. I’m very fortunate to be a part of these projects and I’m very proud of them. I’ll be able to sort of sit back and read some books that I haven’t caught up on and try to enjoy the time a little more.

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One of the questions asked by Country Strong is whether or not fame and true love can co-exist. We are getting Garrett’s heartfelt opinion on this subject as a young, single man in Hollywood and learning that his first exposure to Country Music was on his grandpa’s turkey farm where they would crank up the Johnny Cash. The birds seemed to groove to it and he did too!

We’re chatting Garrett’s hopes and dreams as a teen on the farm, love, fame, cowboy hats and a whirlwind year!

TeenHollywood: You’re a young single man in show biz. Do you think love and fame can co-exist? Or maybe only if one of the partners isn’t in the business?

Garrett: It’s a tug of war between levels of passion. I like to write and read as much as I can and I spend a lot of my time doing that. But with the fame angle, what people think is so glamorous isn’t. It can get quite cold and cruel at times. For me it’s all about the love of the art. Being fortunate enough to be on a lot of wonderful films this year was great but a lot of work. To put that work in, to do the research and not cease and not give up and put a thousand percent of your focus on your task at hand, and not cheat yourself, that’s where my love is.

TeenHollywood: So no real time for a true love relationship?

Garrett: If I meet somebody unbelievable, I would know it. But for me, it’s love before fame at least. If fame gets too invasive then, I’ll just dig a hole in the ground and hide. I’d do the exact same thing [my character] Beau did, go back and scale back.

TeenHollywood: Your love interest Chiles [played by Leighton Meester] is all about the fame.. stardom and your character Beau about the art of his songwriting and performing. When you were a kid or teen was having an acting career about stardom or just about the art of acting?

Garrett: I was big into sports as a kid. I always wanted to be a professional baseball player. I would write a lot of players hoping for an autograph in return. One day, Nolan Ryan sent me back his autograph. All my friends said it wasn’t real and I was eating cereal, spilled milk on it and the blue Sharpie smeared and I yelled ‘It’s real!’ So that encouraged me, when I watched film, to write to Universal or MGM and say ‘Can I be in one of your movies?’ Or ‘Can I be in one of your TV shows?’

At first it was just about wanting to be off the farm or going to California and the ocean. I’d see hay fields blowing in the wind and my dad would say ‘That’s our ocean’. When I was studying in Arizona I was studying dense stuff and any book I could get my hands on but the films that moved me the most were the ones that stirred up the most emotion. I just wanted to perform a role so well that I moved somebody in the way that it happened for me.

TeenHollywood: So, then it was always about the art and not longing to be on the red carpet with paparazzi chasing you?

Garrett: [laughs] Yeah. I guess so.

TeenHollywood: You were born in Minnesota, grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona. So what is your Country Music background?

Garrett: We had a turkey farm and my grandpa would play Johnny Cash for all the turkeys and they’d just bop their heads. We had to do our chores in the turkey shed so he’d click on Johnny Cash as we laid shavings down for them. That was the first I heard. Then, just growing up with Tim [McGraw’s] songs. I was singing Tim’s songs working on the tractor and Faith [Hill] played our country fair when I was ten years old and brought Tim up on stage.

TeenHollywood: So it must have been bizarre to meet your childhood music idols then?

Garrett: Yeah. Finally to be down in Austin The first day of shooting, the director said ‘Do you want to meet your father?’ [Tim played Garrett’s dad in the movie Friday Night Lights]I said ‘Yeah’ and it’s Tim McGraw. Ultimately my character was not supposed to like him.

Then we ended up hanging in his bus between scenes and he’d have me come up on stage and sing “I Like It I Love It” with him in Austin. I couldn’t sing that. He said ‘You’ll catch on. Just sing the chorus’. Today, me playing a country singer with Tim McGraw is amazing.

TeenHollywood: How did you perfect Beau’s accent?

Garrett: I think I’m in such a melting pot of accents at this moment because Tron was much different from Country Strong and being in Nashville for four months hanging out and playing that character, I developed it. I have an ear for it and just wanted to be genuine. In On the Road, playing Neal Cassady, you’ve got the tapes [of his voice] to listen to so, all of a sudden [he starts talking with a totally different accent] and the rhythms change. I’ll be back to myself soon [laughs]. When I first came to Arizona I was nicknamed “Minnesota” because I talked so slow and with a Northern accent.

TeenHollywood: Before going to Hollywood, you were a kid reading old screenplays and pretending to then try out for the parts? How did you get the screenplays?

Garrett: There used to be a website called “Drew’s Scriptorama” where you could get them [hey, Garrett, it’s still there!]. I’d read it from the computer and prep a scene for a week and pretend I was doing it. It was something I was just trying because acting classes are all about rules. ‘Do this and don’t do this’. If you chuck out the rules and learn that there are no rules and watch great actors and what they’ve done with the dialogue on page, you learn that these people really cut the cuffs on their wrists and flew. I learned from that.

TeenHollywood: Beau puts his personal soul into his songwriting and performing. Could you do that or would it be too personal?

Garrett: This movie was a whole new thing for me. There are a lot of qualities in Beau that I never expressed confidently. It took six months for me to get the guitar down and be able to sing to express poetry in that form. I think, undoubtedly, the more interesting you are as a person, the more knowledge you have, that radiates from the surface. But, ultimately I try to feed the traits of what he is in the script and try and build around it.

TeenHollywood: You were co-starring with Jeff Bridges in Tron and he plays a mean guitar and sings up a storm in real life. Could he help you with this role?

Garrett: On Tron, Jeff tried to show me how to play guitar. Not so good. Then, seven months later, I’m in my trailer playing Jeff’s songs from Crazy Heart. It’s wild. Now, finally we’re in the trailer jamming together.

TeenHollywood: Awesome! You look really natural in your cowboy hat in the film. Where does that come from?

Garrett: [laughs] My grandpa wore a cowboy hat every day till the day he died but not me. I found the perfect one on top of Neal Casal’s [his guitar coach for the film] fridge. His ex-bro-in-law from Texas had given it to him. He said, ‘I can’t wear this. It’s my ex-wife now’. So, he put it on top of my head and said ‘Dude, rock it!’ ‘Can I just borrow it?’ He said ‘take it’.

TeenHollywood: You also had a real Country style with the microphone, the way you stood and approached it. Did you learn that?

Garrett: I just jammed with the band. You work the mic like you have to lean down for a kiss. It’s about talking to the audience and telling them a story.

TeenHollywood: You have some great scenes with Gwyneth Paltrow. How was working with her?
Garrett: Let’s just say, it’s much easier working with an Oscar-winning actor than a Razzie winning one [we laugh]. Gwyneth is so phenomenal and so beautiful and a wonderful actress. We hit it off at the beginning. We’d only had a dinner before that and met once.

TeenHollywood: How do you hope teens will respond to Country Strong?

Garrett: It’s kind of a great time for Country music right now. There are a lot of great, young Country artists that have really gotten younger audiences from all over the globe into Country music. This film is an addition to that. It’s a wonderful movie that will turn non-Country fans into Country fans because you get to invest in a beautiful story with great characters that are filled with soul and, hopefully it moves you at the end of the day.

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Garrett Hedlund:  Hello.
Me:  Garrett?
Garrett: Yes.
Me: Hi.  This is Chapin.  How are you?
Garrett: Hi, I’m very well.  Nice to meet you, Chapin.
Me: Nice to meet you too.  Where are you speaking to me from?
Garrett: I’m in Los Angeles.  I understand you’re in New York?
Me:  No.  I’m in L. A. too.
Garrett: Oh, you are?
Me: Yeah.  So we’re on the same time zone.  How many of these phone interviews have you done today?
Garrett: I’m not sure!
Me: Losing track?
Garrett: I mean, with the Tron-machine junkets and everything else, all told, yeah.  But I’m quite fine now.

The primary reason you haven’t heard much, if at all, about him, is that he is a definitively private guy and he ain’t playing the look-at-me game.

That said, he’s also a guy on the threshold of some potentially huge (and maybe unwanted?) fame. He’s currently starring in the movies mentioned above, ‘TRON Legacy’ and ‘Country Strong,’ and has a movie coming up where he plays Kristen Stewart’s husband, which is going to push him into the spotlight in a whole new way.Garrett Hedlund’s about to land on the Hollywood ‘Grid’ … hard core.

Speaking to him a few days ago he didn’t seem too aware of the impending change that could happen, but as you’ll read, he’s got his head screwed on straight. Thankfully, even though he’s private, he’s also a really nice guy too and he had way more interesting things to say about his life and work than I expected. Here he is…

Me: So, I wanted to get a little bit on your background, because there’s not that much except for you’re from Minnesota and then you lived in Arizona and you’re one of five kids, right?
Garrett: Three.

Three?  Oh, okay.  But you’re the youngest?
Yes.

So what originally got you interested in acting?
I don’t know.  I mean, I guess it’s just something that when I was a little kid we’d have VHS, and I’d write to, you know, Universal or MGM, “can I be in one of your movies?” you know?  I think just because you’re on a farm you just want to get away.  And so it was either that or be a professional baseball player.  And, you know, when I moved to Arizona, I was just state away, so I was able to sort of pursue an independent style of study and read everything I could and just pursue it that way.

Were you a super-focused kid with whatever you’d be into?
I suppose, I mean, I just, I guess I loved everything.  I loved every sport, you know.  I played, you know, football, wrestling, baseball and I think anybody on a small town just wants to find their outlet and if any of those sports would have  taken me out of the town.  I would have done it.

Being the youngest, were you like the entertainer of the three?
It’s a weird quality that the youngest have because the oldest have been told no, they can’t do that so many times that the parents are tired of it.  And by the time the youngest comes around, they always say you get away with a lot more. And so maybe that’s it.  But yeah. I always kind of — I was always just kind of a goof off.

Did you do any acting before actually like coming to Hollywood and doing auditions?
It was just the auditions, and my first film was ‘Troy.’

Wow, so straight to Hollywood … there were no like school plays or anything.
Well, it was two years of flying back and forth. No plays or anything like that.  I mean, I wanted to do film, you know?  And so two years of flying back and forth auditioning for films.  And then being fortunate enough to be able to get one.  I mean, it was the first unbelievable thing that ever happened to me in my life.

I read, what was it, ten days after you moved to L. A. you were doing ‘Troy’?  Something like that.
Yeah, I was auditioning for it.

That’s amazing.  Most of your roles would not be considered comedic, they’re mostly dramas and big action movies, but I saw ‘TRON Legacy’ and I was surprised how funny you are. Would you ever be interested in doing comedy?
I don’t know.  If it was the right project.  I mean, I don’t try and particularly search out comedic scripts. At the present time I like the ones that are extreme and completely opposite from anything I’ve done before.  And ones that take a lot of work and have a lot of emotion and takes a lot of work and emotion to be put into it in order to achieve the goal.  And that’s what fulfills me more, and that’s just tended to be more rather serious film in my career.

Well, that holds true that ‘Country Strong’ and ‘TRON Legacy’ couldn’t be more different.  What drew you to each of those roles?
I filmed ‘Tron’ before ‘Country Strong’ and I started prepping for ‘Country Strong’ immediately after I finished ‘Tron.’  But for ‘Tron’ the prep was learning parkour and mixed martial arts and weight training and motorcycle training.  When you’re doing this type of film, it’s just you know you’re being a part of something so revolutionary and so new and cool. So I was very eager to be a part of it, and to work with Joe Kosinski.  I mean, I’m from Minnesota, he’s from Iowa, so we have that tie.  But he’s also what I feel is the next visionary genius of our time. And I feel so privileged to be not in Joseph

Kosinski’s first film, but a Joseph Kosinski film. And for ‘Country Strong,’ I had started guitar training right after I had wrapped ‘Tron’ because I never knew how to play the guitar.  So in six months of guitar training. four days a week, you know, learning how to jam, and going to the studio and playing and singing at the same time, and just trying to progress. And then I moved to Nashville a month and a half early to be out there and to get comfortable inNashville.  And then we embarked on our filming process.  So I was very proud of the work put in, and that [director] Shana Feste believed in me for that role, and knew I couldn’t play it, but she believed in me when I said, “I’ll do whatever it takes.”

That’s awesome. Did you keep up with anything like the parkour, or do you still play the guitar?
I play the guitar a little bit here and there. I haven’t lately because I’ve been on the road filming the movie ‘On the Road’ and the character doesn’t play guitar, so I didn’t want to bring the guitar along.  But, I mean, I think I’ll be playing the guitar for the rest of my life.

When you pick up the guitar do you have a song that your fingers go to the chords automatically?
Yeah.  ”Chances Are” from the film.

Ahh. You sing in ‘Country Strong.’  To get the part you obviously had to prove that you could sing.  How did you audition singing-wise?
I took Shana to karaoke and I sang “Better Man” by Pearl Jam.  (laughs) It didn’t go over so well.

It didn’t?
No.  But she saw, well, she okayed it and — I don’t know.  I guess maybe it went all right.

Well, you got the role!
But when it comes karaoke time that was always my go to.  And I figured I’d be able to try and do it confidently.  And but I’m very fortunate that she believed in me.

Did she have you like sing any country songs or anything like that?
No, not then.  I mean, she was just like, “that wasn’t country.” (laughs) And I said, “that’s the only one I know how to sing.”

Ha!  That’s funny! So, you’re on just about every ‘one to watch’ and ‘hot’ list of 2010 and 2011.  But it kind of seems like you might not really like or want people watching you in that way.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but it kind of seems like acting appeals to you, but celebrity does not.
Yeah.  Yeah.  I mean, these films haven’t even come out yet and, you know, it’s been pretty crazy, but my focus at this time has been ‘On the Road.’  And we just wrapped yesterday morning in San Francisco, and it was exactly six months of filming.  And, you know, you get so beat, and you’ve been everywhere in the world.  I mean, we traveled all over the place for it. And, I mean, I wrapped at 11:00 in the morning and went straight to the airport to arrive here and go to the ‘Tron’ premiere last night on Hollywood Boulevard. And, you know, just being thrust into this, you know, massive sort of night. You know, I hope everybody enjoys the films, I’m really proud of them.  But no, I mean, I’m more a private guy.  And, you know, I’ll just start looking for a place to hide.

Yeah.  Have you started being stalked by paparazzi or have you been able to avoid that so far?
Yeah.  Yeah. I’ve been able to avoid it.

So I’ve got a few quickies I want to ask you before we wrap up, favorite books, that kind of stuff.  Is that all right?
Mm-hmm.

So, favorite book?
Favorite book.  Let’s say ‘On The Road.’
Favorite album?  That’s always a hard one.
Let’s go with Blaze Foley, I think it’s at the Austin — I can’t remember.  But that’s info to look up.  It’s Blaze Foley, F-O-L-E-Y.  And it’s Live at the Austin something.  I forget what it is.
All right, I’ll look it up.  Favorite film?
‘Being There.’  Peter Sellers.

Have you read the book?
No.

It’s really good.  You have to read it.
I know, man.  I can’t — but I love what he does with that performance so much as well.  But I really gotta read the book.
The book won’t ruin it for you at all.  I promise.
No.  Of course.  I probably, you know, it’d probably become my favorite book instead.

Favorite TV show?
I don’t watch TV.

No?  How about favorite travel destination.
Favorite travel destination.  I’ve never been to the same place twice.  Let’s see.  Favorite travel destination.  Nashville.

So you’ve just wrapped ‘On The Road.’  Do you know what’s next after that?
Nothing.  Just rest.

Take a break?  It seems like it’s been pretty intense.
Well, yeah.  It’s just, you know, it was, kind of a journey of a lifetime we just embarked on.  So, there was so much work put together.  And I got the opportunity to play such a rich sort of vibrant character.  And one of the greatest characters I feel has really been written about. And even two nights ago I got to hang with the actual character, Neil Cassidy’s ex-wife, Carolyn Cassidy in San Francisco two nights ago, and walked with her hand-in-hand up to Vesuvio’s, the old bar they used drink at.

Oh, wow.
And to be a part of this, and to look over and see Carolyn Cassidy smiling at me, it’s just — it was the very last day too, you know?  We’d done the whole journey, and now this is the gift.  And it was wonderful.

That’s perfect.  That’s awesome.  Do movies stick with you for awhile after you finish shooting or…?
Yeah, it takes a little while.  I mean, you know, I think the ‘Country Strong’ one took quite a few weeks to shed.
I mean, just because you started finding that life and lifestyle so desirable, so it was hard for me to let go of it. But yeah.  They kind of do, but you get back, and over time you sort of, you know, sink back into your couch and everything kind of goes back to the same.  It’s good to get back to you after a while.

Makes sense.   And how are you gonna spend the holidays?
I don’t know yet.

You haven’t had two seconds to think about it I bet.
No.

Well, I hope they’re great.  And congratulations on all of your success.  I can’t wait to see ‘Country Strong.’
I’m excited for you to see it.

Now, with private actors, especially ones who are this good looking, their status can go one of two ways.  The first way, they eventually come to be known purely because of their stellar acting work. The other way is they can become hounded by the media and paparazzi who are trying to their hooks into him because the people demand to know who these people are off screen. Garrett seems bound and determined not to go the ‘other’ way.  Here’s hoping…

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Garrett Hedlund and I bonded over his rural northwest Minnesota roots. I used to live on the border, there, and got lost driving a friend to where he grew up (Roseau and Strandquist) the first winter I lived in North Dakota. No road signs, dark, snowing, and finger drifts crossing the road in front of my tiny, Southern-born Chevy.

“You need to look for Cattle Crossing signs,” he says. “Only thing that shows you where the road is.”

The last time Hedlund was up there, “It was 40 below,” he says. Same here, I say. And you remember what they used to say about OUR kind (people who have moved away)? “Forty below keeps the riff-raff out.”

Got a laugh out of him on that one.

Here’s my piece on GH, which I wrote initially to coincide with the “TRON” release, but which I may re-jigger (lots more notes of him talking about ‘Country Strong’) when it hits print and the wires.

In the annals of moviedom, December 2010 could go down as the month that Garrett Hedlund became a movie star.

This weekend, he’s front and center in Disney’s big budget (as much as $200 million) 3D blockbuster, “TRON: Legacy.” Then there’s the awards season country music romance “Country Strong,” starring Gwyneth Paltrow as a fading singer, Tim McGraw as her manager husband and Hedlund as the struggling young singer-songwriter who might be just what she needs. That opens in some cities in December, in the rest of the country in January.
And he just finished shooting a film based on Jack Kerouac’s Beat novel, “On the Road.”

“Two nights ago I was hanging out with Carolyn Cassady,” Hedlund says. Cassady’s the widow of Neal Cassady, Hedlund’s character, a pivotal person in Keroauc’s life and one of the inspirations for “On the Road.” “Yesterday morning, I was driving a 1949 Hudson Hornet across the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. We finished the scene, I stopped the car, jumped on a plane, and flew to LA for the premiere of ‘Tron.’ Hollywood Boulevard was all lit up and ‘TRON’ blue. Surreal.
“Then the next morning, I get up and start talking to reporters about these movies I’m so proud of,” Hedlund says. ““I just don’t know how to express my unbelievaty at all this. I know unbelievaty’s not a word! It’s more than unbelievable to me.”

Hedlund was in the 2004 big screen “Friday Night Lights,” playing the kid living with an abusive dad (Tim McGraw). He had a role in the hit 2005 action hit “Four Brothers,” billed well below star Mark Wahlberg.

Now, at 26, he’s getting his shot in “two roles, two films, that could not be more opposite.” But they both came about, he believes, because of “On the Road,” which he was cast in way back in 2007.

“Two years went by, and we were all at a point of giving up…I was still completely on board, utterly believing in the project. I was going to the Coinstar machine just to come up with walking around money.

“But I had the confidence of having ‘On the Road’ in the works when I walked into rooms to meet with casting people. I had that going in to read for ‘Tron.’ And I had it with ‘Country Strong,’ too. This movie that was in danger of not being made backed me up. “

The Roseau, Minnesota native says his rural Midwestern roots played a part in landing his big break roles, starring opposite two Oscar winners (Jeff Bridges in ‘Tron,’ Paltrow in ‘Country Strong.’).
“Joe Kosinski, who directed ‘Tron,’ is from Iowa, and we met and had this immediate Midwest connection. I bought into his vision, the movie he was going for, and he believed in me as Sam Flynn.”

“And ‘Country Strong,’ growing up on a farm, Tim McGraw and the other great country stars filled the airwaves around our house. Our only radio station played only country music.”
He landed the roles, buffed up and brushed up on 1982’s ‘Tron,’ ready to bring his game face to his scenes with “the incredibly inspiring” Jeff Bridges. But that was nothing like the work he had to put in to be a convincing singer and guitarist in “Country Strong.”

“From August (2009) onward, I was practicing, hard-core guitar training. I would go into the studio and practice, cutting old Hank [Williams] Sr. tracks, just to chart some progress at building credibility.”

His co-star, singer-turned-actor McGraw, gave him polish.

“Tim let me stay In his cabin down near Nashville for a month and a half. I needed to be there, be around it, just to absorb it.

“Tim’s advice to me was ‘just leave and breathe country music, all day every day. Be singing it, listening to it and thinking about it.’ That’s what I did, along with playing all day every day. I didn’t want to use a hand double or have somebody else do the singing. You’ve got to get past the un-coordination, falling on your face trying to sing and play a song.”

“TRON: Legacy” is pulling down mixed reviews, with Hedlund “decent if vanilla” notices (Empire Magazine) in the rare review that even mentions the sci-fi spectacle’s acting. The acting showcase “Country Strong” may be where he wins his spurs. Meanwhile, he’s just soaking up what just happened, and what may be about to happen.

“I’m planning on sitting on the couch through the holidays, maybe even by myself, and waiting to see what the new year holds.”

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Tron Legacy midnight box office gross earnings have just been reported, and the results are actually very positive, even record breaking for IMAX. According to early estimates from Walt Disney, Tron Legacy brought in an impressive $3.6 million from midnight showings on December 17th, 2010.

It was released to a near record 228 IMAX locations, and showings from the format accounted for more than $1 million of that, or nearly 29 of its total $3.6 million gross. That’s easily a record percentage, pointing to the fact that moviegoers were more than willing to pay not only the premium 3D cost for Tron Legacy, but the IMAX premium as well.

Even more interestingly, Tron Legacy’s midnight gross beats the $3.5 million that Avatar brought in just last year, howbeit the 2009 film was released to fewer 3D locations as well as IMAX sites. Tron Legacy’s midnight earnings also eclipsed that of Inception, which brought in $3 million from midnight screenings, and opened to $62 million for the weekend.

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Traditionally, there’s only one golden-boy megastar a decade—in the Seventies, Sixties icon Steve McQueen handed the blond baton to Robert Redford, who, in the Eighties, passed it to Brad Pitt. While Pitt is still the reigning blond, Garrett Hedlund is his successor. He was first cast as Pitt’s look-alike cousin in Troy. And watching Hedlund’s performance in Country Strong, as an up-and-coming country music star who seduces two women, one is instantly reminded of Pitt’s breakthrough moment in Thelma & Louise. Hedlund is commanding, vulnerable, sexy. And he can sing. Apart from talent and the fact that he’s great-looking, the 26-year-old has that ineffable quality—star power. Which is why he will be the next one, the blond that defines the upcoming decade.

In Tron: Legacy, you play Jeff Bridges’s son, who’s searching for his father in video-game outer space; and in Country Strong, you’re a country singer entangled in a love triangle. What’s more difficult—performing onstage in front of a live audience or kissing someone you’ve just met?
They’re both a little tricky. When I read the Country Strong script, I thought, Can’t they just hand-double it? Can’t I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing? It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time. So I guess the kissing thing was easier.

Growing up in Minnesota, did you listen to country music?
I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I’d find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in Friday Night Lights. It was surreal.

How did you get from the farm in Minnesota to Hollywood?
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I’d write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back. When I was 14, I moved to Arizona to live with my mother. Being in Arizona, I was only one state away from California. For two or three years, I flew to L.A. for auditions. I’d get out of school, fly into Burbank airport, get in a taxi, go to the audition, taxi back, fly back to Arizona, and go to school the next day. I remember the reaction to my first audition: I think the phrase was “You sucked pond water.”

But it got better fast: At 18, you were cast as Brad Pitt’s cousin in Troy.
Yeah—when my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming Troy.

You had to die in that movie. It’s hard to imagine your death when you’re only a teenager.
I didn’t know how I was going to die. I didn’t get much sleep the night before that scene, and finally, at 5 a.m., I decided to rehearse a little bit. I got down on the floor and started gagging and dry heaving. [Laughs.] I said, “That’s it—that’s how I’ll die.”

After Troy, you went to Texas to play the star wide receiver in Friday Night Lights. Had you played football in high school?
Yes, but I was always on defense—not in the glory positions. I wasn’t the quarterback or the one making the touchdowns. I loved playing, but I hated to practice. Which is strange, because I like doing research for a character. For Troy, I studied The Iliad. I’m not sure I would have read it as carefully if it had been assigned for school.

Did you read On the Road in class? You’re currently playing Dean Moriarty, perhaps the coolest guy ever, in the film version.
I remember reading the book in high school, and then, three years ago, I went online, and it said, “Francis Ford Coppola is producing this.” Now we’re halfway through filming, and I still can’t believe I’m a part of it. In ’07 I auditioned for the part twice. On my birthday that September, I was flying back from New York and I had to land in Chicago for a layover. When I got to the gate, my father called and sang me “Happy Birthday,” and at the same time I received an e-mail saying I got the part in On the Road. I boarded the plane so happy. When I landed in L.A., I got another call from Minnesota: After he hung up the phone with me, my father had a heart attack. He’s doing fine now, but that’s life—a great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it’s best to acknowledge that weird balance.

[Hedlund’s phone rings. He picks it up and skips it against the floor like a rock across a lake. The phone bashes into the wall.] If I was in a car, that phone would be out the window. [Laughs.] I’m not good with phones and gadgets and stuff. I don’t appreciate them the way others do. You know how when somebody gets a new car, they are so worried about that first scratch, but after that everything’s fine? Well, I just say, “Everything to me in life is like the second scratch.”

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The high-tech production design and the costumes of Tron: Legacy may be out of this world (natch), but nothing can take our eyes off of Garrett Hedlund.

The 26-year-old Midwesterner stars in the sci-fi sequel as Sam Flynn, son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), the technology guru who mysteriously disappeared into another world in the first Tron movie.

So, what’s this Hedlund dude have to do with Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kristen Stewart? Read on to find out because we’re giving you the top five things ya have to know about him…

1. Hedlund was raised on a farm in a small Minnesota town. His fam moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., when he was 14, but as soon as he graduated high school, he took off for Los Angeles. He made his acting debut in 2004 playing Patroclus in Troy opposite…Brad Pitt! He went on to star in Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers and Georgia Rule with Lindsay Lohan.

2. Hedlund had a lot to prove before he was cast in the Tron sequel. “I looked at hundreds of guys,” director Joseph Kosinski says. “It was a very exhaustive search. To find a guy in his mid-20s who you could believe to be the son of Jeff Bridges is a tricky combination of both personality and talent and physicality and looks…When you see them face each other, you really think they could be father and son.”

3. Fingers are crossed for a third flick. “I think it’s kind of up to the fans to see if we’re going to explore the world any further,” Hedlund tells us. “Obviously, I would like to see more.” He’s also hoping to see “kids running around next year on Halloween in Tron costumes.”

4. Hedlund makes his singing debut playing a musician in Country Strong. His costsars include Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw and Leighton Meester. He not only trained for months with guitar and vocal lessons, but he even moved to Nashville to live on McGraw’s ranch for a spell. Paltrow eventually convinced him to perform at a local bar. “Sitting at one table was Gwyneth, Chris Martin, Faith Hill, [Kings of Leonlead singer]Caleb Followill and Dierks Bentley,” Hedlund said. “I sang ‘Chances Are.’ There were a lot of surreal moments like that.”

5. Kristen Stewart costars with Hedlund in the movie adaptation On the Road. “She was signed on to the movie before the first Twilight ever hit theaters,” Hedlund said. “She’s so good and she’s so devoted. She’s such an incredibly hard worker.”

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