There is a new interview with Garret at Poptimal.com today. Most of it is about Raising Hope, but he also sheds some light on his new project, among other things.
The new film, Looper, is a sci-fi thriller in which – wait for it – people from the future use time travel to terminate other people from the future by sending them back to the past where they are greeted by Loopers (killers hired by gangsters from the future) and their cool looking guns. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play the same guy at two different points in time and other familiar mugs include Paul Dano, Emily Blunt, Piper Perabo, and Jeff Daniels.
Here is what Garret says about the film:
Poptimal.com: You’re growing a beard?
Dillahunt: I am. I’m on my way to New Orleans to do this film called Looper with Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. I’m very excited and nervous about that.
Poptimal.com: Why nervous?
Dillahunt: Because I’m fans of those guys. It’s a really cool story; it’s a sci-fi thing so it’s kind of back in my normal wheel house.
Poptimal.com: Can you tell us more about it?
Dillahunt: It’s set in the future. It involves a lot of time travel and I get to have a cool gun fight with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt. I’m looking forward to it. – Poptimal.com
For more info on the movie, you can visit MovieWeb and Geek Tyrant for photos and videos from the set, and also the film’s official blog for some behind-the-scenes pics.
Raising Hope had a panel at the Paley Festival yesterday and reports are showing up everywhere. Still no clips from the panel, but if they do show up, it will probably be at the Paley Screening Room. A bunch of people posted pics from the event on Twitter. You can find all the tagged live tweets here. For more pics, head over to Zimbio.
Actor Garret Dillahunt (Burt) teased a scene in the Garcia-helmed season finale — which was screened for the audience — that was memorable for all the right reasons.
“I think it’s very complex, lots of Memento weaving time-travelling thing going on, and I also have a spitting contest with an alpaca, which has never happened before,” Dillahunt revealed to THR. Who wins? “Don’t look an alpaca in the eye, that’s all I can say,” he warned.
Dillahunt also hypothesized where the characters might be at the start of Season 2. “We didn’t know if they were going to go back in time further or if we’re going to skip ahead in the life of the babies, so I’m anxious to see what [the writers] have in store,” he said.
TV.com has interviews with the main cast. Here is the one with Garret:
You’re well known for your dramatic work—Winter’s Bone, No Country for Old Men. What are the challenges of doing comedy after all this heavy, heavy drama?
You know, it oddly doesn’t feel challenging. It feels like fun. I’m not saying it’s easy, but I just like the change of it, to do something different from the last thing I did. I guess I always sort of thought that’s what we’re supposed to do, just travel between the styles as gracefully as possible. This is a good one and I’m really proud of it. I’m proud of my cast, and I hope people keep telling their friends to watch, because I think it’s one of those kinds of shows. I think it’s smart and it has a slow, steady growing appeal, and that pleases me. How has Burt grown as a father and as a grandfather?
I think he’s learning that he can’t just be a pal. I think he’s going to grow up slowly—obviously he already is growing up slowly, but he’s going to find his joy in that and realize it’s not a death. It’s just another phase. Tell me a little bit about the flashbacks you get to do.
[laughs] With the wigs and everything? They’re fun. I especially like working with the three-year-old Jimmy, played by Trace Garcia, the creator’s son. He’s so funny that I just have a ball working with him. I love it. They’re so ridiculous that the pressure is taken off of you. Are you looking to do more comedy in the future, if there are film offers?
Absolutely. I’m about to go do this sci-fi thing that’s more in my old wheelhouse, and I’m looking forward to that. But this is a good one. I feel like I’m making a film, a short comedy film every week.
There is a new interview with Garret over at TV Guide, mostly about Raising Hope. The Sarah Connor Society has the article scans.
Here is a snippet:
But if talking about himself doesn’t come easy, the actor’s certainly comfortable discussing his character, whom he speaks of like an old friend. “I wish I were a little more like him,” he admits surprisingly enough, considering the former teen dad/pool cleaner is not the brightest. “He’s loyal and he takes things in stride. It’s about loving life and having a good time — Burt’s really good at that. I could learn from him.”
With the show renewed for a second season, Dillahunt will have plenty of time to pick up some tips — and he couldn’t be happier about it. “I like playing the fool. I’ve never understood actors who are like, ‘I don’t wanna do that. That makes me look like a loser!’ That’s when things are interesting — when you’re down.”
And if being on a hit show makes him too recognizable to play the chameleon and slip in and out of roles unnoticed? Dillahunt’s not worried: “That would be an exciting obstacle to overcome, right?”
New Raising Hope airs tonight at 9. Scroll down for the previews.
Winter’s Bone won two Spirit Awards yesterday, for Best Supporting Male (John Hawkes) and Best Supporting Female (Dale Dickey). Black Swan and The King’s Speech won Best Feature and Best Foreign Film. The full list of winners is here.
Cinematical has posted all the Oscar nominated screenplays, including Winter’s Bone, here.
Zimbio has a couple of pics of Garret on the red carpet at the Spirit Awards and there are two short interviews with him on YouTube. He is about a minute into the first clip and a minute and a half into the second one.
Oliver Sherman finally hits theatres this weekend, at least in Canada. It opens in Toronto tomorrow, then in Vancouver on Feb. 18, and in Ottawa on Feb. 25 (says TwitchFilm). If you’re in Canada, you can check your local listings at Tribute.ca.
It’s remarkable that Ryan Redford was able to get the cast that he did for a first-timer—how did you come to be involved with Oliver Sherman?
I think he was a big Deadwood fan, and he really wanted to work with us. It was Molly who first called me just saying, “Hey, there’s this kid up here—you should really take a look at this thing. And he wants it for us.” I was pleased and flattered. He came to New York, where I was doing a play at the time. I was between film jobs so it was perfect timing and I really liked him. When that kind of stuff happens, it’s exciting. This was one of those films you do that you always thought you would do when you aspired to be an actor. I hope that it finds a life outside of Canada because I think it’s one of the best films that I’ve ever been in, and that includes No Country and Assassination.
Are you pleased that the character of Sherman turned out to be so much more complex than the one-note villain he might’ve been?
Ryan really clung tenaciously to the story he wanted to tell with Oliver Sherman, and it was not a thriller by any means. A tragedy is what it is. It’s really about the war for Franklin’s soul, with his wife on one side and Sherman on the other. And it’s about these two soldiers and how they each came back and dealt with civilian life in completely different ways.
There is also an interesting interview with Ryan Redford at Canada.com.
And here is everything you need to know about the story and the production, from the press pack:
