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That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.
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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I'm kind of grateful that I didn't have any real success until I was older and basically out of high school. I think that was a real confidence boost for me, having it all start that way, in that very privileged position of having him vouch for me.
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Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.
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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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For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.
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Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.
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I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.
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The movie [Blue Jasmin] shot very quick. I met Cate Blanchett in the car on the way to set, and we did that last scene, and she was just so phenomenal. I had basically met her that day. Because the way he shoots, everybody just shows up and does their thing, and he moves us very quickly.
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When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.
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Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.
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I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, How could the character have done this? and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say Woody.
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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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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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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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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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It's a little bit about how I felt about Hail, Caesar! and now Star Wars. I could not have predicted those things happening to me. But I'm just happy they come along.
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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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I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.
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So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.
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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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Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you as a director, Will you speak louder on the next take? He'll say it as Howard Hughes: I can't totally hear you. Why don't you speak up a little bit? To kind of keep this rhythm going.
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