Garret did an interview earlier and it’s finally up on YouTube. He talks about Raising Hope, Looper, and Cogan’s Trade, and also mentions he is doing another couple of movies in the near future.
Unrelated, but if you missed it on Twitter, you can stream Side Man on LATW’s site.
Here is the interview:
Yeah, let’s start with that last one. A new TV appearance has showed up on Garret’s list of credits at the IMDb: Memphis Beat, episode 2×06, “Body of Evidence.” No details yet except for the character’s name (Tim Wayne), but it’s too soon anyway. Season two of Memphis Beat premieres on Tuesday, June 14 at 9/8, so we won’t see the episode for another couple of months.
Second, great news from Cannes, via Deadline: Looper has found a distributor. Report:
A frenzied Saturday auction on the Croisette has ended with FilmDistrict in final negotiations for U.S. distribution rights to Looper, the Rian Johnson-directed science fiction film that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Bruce Willis. There were at least six bidders spanning major studios and independents, and it sounds like some serious upfront money was paid. But the intriguing part is that the deal orchestrated between CAA and FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel will likely end in FilmDistrict using an option with Sony Pictures, which would release and market the film through the TriStar label. That replicates the distribution structure of District 9, which Schlessel acquired while he was at Sony. The picture has a similarly brainy construct and is also reminiscent of the first Terminator.
Johnson wrote the script, about a contract killer who works for the mob of the future, and who kills victims that are sent back in time 30 years, so there is no trace of the crime in the future. It’s a great gig, until the killer (Gordon-Levitt) recognizes that one of his targets (Willis) is a futuristic version of himself.
Third, two new reviews of Oliver Sherman showed up at LonelyReviewer.com and Pajiba.com and they’re both pretty spectacular. Check them out.
And, on the Raising Hope front, there is a new interview with Garret at Zap2it. Snippet:
“Martha and I are both glad it was a plot point,” says Dillahunt, “that we’re young grandparents.”
And he doesn’t mind co-starring with babies.
“They turned 1 toward the end of the season,” says Dillahunt. “We really like them, and they’re getting very comfortable with us. I find myself missing them.
“They are great. I think we won the baby race, if nothing else. They have different skills. Rylie’s the Meryl Streep of babies. You bring her in for all the emotional stuff and all the spit-take-type stuff. Baylie’s the stunt baby.”
Last, the clips from the Raising Hope season finale, “Don’t Vote for This Episode,” which airs this Tuesday at 9 pm:
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The A.V. Club did a monster interview with Garret a few weeks ago and it’s up on their site today. You can read it here.
Among other things, he mentions doing a cameo in Cogan’s Trade, the Jesse James reunion (Andrew Dominik, Brad Pitt, Sam Shepard) that wrapped filming the other day in New Orleans.
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Assignment X has a new interview with Garret. It’s mostly about Raising Hope, but he also talks about The Road and Winter’s Bone. Hit the link for the whole article, here’s a snippet:
ASSIGNMENT X: You’ve played a lot of rather tough, scary people lately. Do you have a different process for playing someone like Burt Chance on RAISING HOPE?
GARRET DILLAHUNT: I don’t know if my process is any different. I’m the same actor. I like to try to do the opposite of what I did last time. A lot of the folks in this show come from the theatre, Martha [Plimpton] ( does and Lucas was a theatre guy in Chicago, that’s where they found him. In that kind of world, you’re really used to playing different characters almost every job. You’re the prince in one and the pauper in the next. I think it really helps the creativity on the show, certainly in my choices, to try to do something different than I did last time. I think what [creator/show runner] Greg Garcia enjoyed and we did too was, it’s a real ensemble, and there’s a real environment we’ve created on set where we all felt that we could be creative and a little loose with our characters, so in a lot of the frames, it’s real deep. You’ll see stuff going on all the way to the back, which I really like. I like physical comedy, I like kind of low humor, I have a weakness for it. I like the physical nature of the comedy in this.
AX: Do you underplay at all in scenes with Cloris Leachman, as her performance is kind of large?
DILLAHUNT: You’re not going to want to get into that contest. I’m glad she likes me and I like her, too. Every day, she just comes and cracks up – she just points to my face and cracks up, and I don’t know what’s funny, but she thinks it’s funny. There is a lot of room for subtlety in the acting, oddly, so yes, that’s my instinct anyway, to always sort of play under, sometimes to my detriment, but I think that’s why it’s funnier to me.
There are a bunch of behind-the-scenes pics from “Cheaters” on the Raising Hope FB page.
And Fox has released the complete May schedule, which includes the synopses for the last three episodes of Raising Hope.
Episode 1×19, “Sleep Training,” airs next week (April 26) at 9:30. The May episodes are 1×20, “Everybody Flirts… Sometimes,” 1×21, “Baby Monitor,” and 1×22, “Don’t Vote for This Episode.”
Tuesday, May 3
RAISING HOPE (9:01-9:31 PM ET/PT) – “Everybody Flirts… Sometimes”
When Burt’s (Garret Dillahunt) flirtatious ways are exposed, the entire family begins to experiment with flirting. Jimmy (Lucas Neff) and Sabrina (Shannon Woodward) compete to be Barney’s (guest star Gregg Binkley) favorite employee, Maw Maw (guest star Cloris Leachman) gives away her treasures and Virginia (Martha Plimpton) is stalked by a coffee shop employee.Tuesday, May 10
RAISING HOPE (9:01-9:31 PM ET/PT) – “Baby Monitor”
When Hope’s baby monitor picks up their neighbors’ conversations, Burt and Virginia go out of their way to meet the troubled couple (guest stars Jaime Pressly and Ethan Suplee) and try to help their marriage. Meanwhile, Howdy’s Market has the entire community, including baby Hope and Maw Maw, involved in a commercial competition with a rival store.Tuesday, May 17
RAISING HOPE (9:01-9:31 PM ET/PT) – “Don’t Vote for This Episode” – Season Finale
The Chances reminisce about the year Jimmy turned 18 – when Maw Maw kicked them out of the house, when a goth Jimmy (a/k/a “Drakkar Noir”) took up residence in the grocery store and when Burt and Virginia finally figured out how to be adults.
A new clip, from Sky.com: