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The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.
Alden Ehrenreich
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Alden Ehrenreich
Age: 34
Born: 1989
Born: November 22
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Alden Caleb Ehrenreich
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Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.
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But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.
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You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.
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I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.
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I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.
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It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].
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The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.
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I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.
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When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.
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I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.
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You get bummed out, and then you go, Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself. That kind of helps.
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For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
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When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.
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My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.
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You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.
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Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it. I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.
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I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.
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Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters. So it's just that - getting to have more of these singular little adventures where you get to be a part of a completely different world.
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