Garrett Hedlund is The One To Watch from 4 Brothers
Posted by Fara Kearnes on August 12, 2005 05:56 PM

He's six-three, blond and blue-eyed, and he has only been in three films, but 20-year-old newcomer Garrett Hedlund is one good reason to go see "Four Brothers" this weekend. The film is intense, heartfelt and occasionally hilarious, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, and Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000 of Outkast.

Wahlberg plays the lead as hot-headed Bobby Mercer, one of four grown adopted brothers, two black and two white, from the mean streets of Detroit who return home after their foster mother is killed in a convenience store robbery. The brothers learn that there's more to the story as conspiracies are revealed and they vow to avenge their mother's murder. They go up against a baddie, and things get harrowing at times with a wild ride of adrenaline and a handful of Kleenex moments. And a lot of great music on the soundtrack.

Three of the actors have music backgrounds, but it's Hedlund who's cast as the artistic youngest brother. Hedlund defended his talents in an interview with 365gay.com, "I did do a lot of trombone playing in school, choir in church and karaoke for fun. So I am not incompetent when it comes to music." His character, Jack, may or may not be gay, but he is picked on by his brothers nonetheless: "I might have been teased about being gay. But you really don?t know if my character is gay or straight or asexual. He doesn?t have a boyfriend, nor a girlfriend, and talks about neither sex. He is more of a loner, happy to be with his guitar, alone in his room. But, nonetheless, I think he is the strongest of all the brothers. He might be teased a lot but he gets the job done, whatever the job may be."

Garrett was recently in "Friday Night Lights" with Billy Bob Thornton and he scored his first ever movie role in the colossal epic "Troy" playing Brad Pitt's cousin, Patroclus. Judging by these first three films, I'd say his career is off to a fabulous start and hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of him in the future.