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‘On the Road’ with Garrett Hedlund

Garrett Hedlund is going to be a star. The last time I felt this way about an actor in a less than stellar spotlight was after catching Heath Ledger in the double feature of 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight’s Tale. They’re a pair of largely forgettable movies that pop up on cable from time to time, but each film deserves a second look (and tends to steal minutes away from a casual viewing experience) thanks to Ledger and that rugged voice of his. It took Brokeback Mountain to prove me right and of course, his now legendarily memorable turn as the Joker in The Dark Knight (with the posthumous Academy Award just to make sure we never forget him). There’s not a day that goes by when I’m sitting in a screening or watching something on television and I wonder what this “particular” movie would have been like if Ledger had been around.

But there’s hope out there because Hedlund has now slipped into that space Ledger left behind. In Country Strong, he was a quiet marvel, singing and strumming his way through this twang-fest with confidence only the best are born with. Far from a wannabe, Hedlund was already a star; we just didn’t know it yet. He was largely left waiting again in Tron: Legacy because that film was all about the spectacle and well, the legacy of the original film rather than figuring out how to capitalize on a star who, in some intriguing ways, has a good bit in common with Jeff Bridges, the actor who plays his character’s father.

All of this discussion, though, has taken me away from his latest appearance in On the Road, in part because the film, for all of its prestigious pedigree, is another missed opportunity.

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When Garrett Hedlund was cast as Dean Moriarty in “On The Road” back in 2006, he had no idea that he’d have to wait four more years for the film to go into production.

In the meantime, he managed to work on other films including “Georgia Rule,” “Country Strong” and “Tron: Legacy.” But if there was a hint of a conflict, Hedlund, much to his agents’ chagrin, pledged his loyalty to the indie film that Brazilian director Walter Salles adapted from Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation bible.

“It was a fact that for two or three years, I was saying no to everything that came across the table, and (my agents) were, like, ‘All right, you go off and do that film. I hope Mr. Salles is happy — (soon people will be asking) where have you been for the last three years?’ ” recalls Hedlund, 28. “Agents and managers despise passion projects sometimes.”
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In his free time he reads poetry, writes journals amd takes endless pictures. On screen he sleeps with women, men and sings bluegrass. Is there anything Garrett Hedlund can’t do? Hermione Eyre meets the face of YSL Beauty

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Garrett Hedlund talks of ‘On the Road’

Garrett Hedlund is sitting in a hotel room in Toronto where his new film, “On the Road,” is screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival, but his mind is on San Francisco. The city is an important location not just in Jack Kerouac’s classic Beat generation saga, but also in Kerouac’s life and that of Neal Cassady, the man on whom the writer based his novel’s hero, Dean Moriarty, the character Hedlund plays in the movie.

“San Francisco was an incredible help,” Hedlund says. “I drove up there by myself and got a hotel and went out to sort of feel the city. Going to Vesuvio’s and going to City Lights Bookstore, because I’d seen all the footage online of Allen Ginsberg and Neal sitting down there. Ginsberg’s talking and they’re much older. (Beat Museum founder) Jerry Cimino was very helpful when I went in there, I was grabbing all Neal material, letters from him in juvenile hall, write-ups of what he had done, the DVD of Neal wasted and on acid.

“I brought that to Mexico and was able to show Walter and the DP (director of photography) this footage and that’s how we were able to film the contraction of the Mexican whorehouse dance,” he adds. “Watching this footage and seeing how he was lost to the beat and everything, he was just flowing into the beat and it didn’t matter – there was no self-awareness in terms of the movement.”

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PARIS — Tailored clothing can transform a man: Just ask Garrett Hedlund, who donned a custom-made suit to front Yves Saint Laurent’s La Nuit de L’Homme fragrance.

“It’s like a whole other role, something I haven’t explored [before]. I don’t even think I wore a suit in any film I’ve done before,” the “Troy” and “Tron: Legacy” actor says. “From the moment I put it on, I was just like: Here is the beginning of something wonderful and new.”

Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, which is part of L’Oréal, approached him last fall about the project.

“What I think intrigued me was when they said the concept of the story,” explains the 29-year-old, sitting in a spacious suite at the hotel Le Meurice here. “It seemed much more like a role than standing there in a suit. With the ad, in terms of how they wanted to present it, was to be very kind of ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’ This sort of dark, mysterious man arrives at this event and it’s very ambiguous; you don’t know what his intentions are. And I thought it was very interesting.”

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