Make sure you get the November issue of Glamour’s UK magazine! Garrett is featured as #8 on the list of World’s Sexiest Guys! I am definitely getting it! 
And he is also featured as #5 in Dirt’s list of Top Ten Hottest New Actors!
Congrats Garrett! 
Thanks to Mr Hedlund!
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I don’t have a scanner right now, so this is a typed version of the article in the July edition of UK Glamour.
| The Guitar Hero With two hit movies already this year, and another on its way, Garrett Hedlund is hitting all the right notes.Garrett Heldund’s had a non-stop year. Between promotion for two of the year’s most talked about movies – Tron Legacy and Country Strong – and filming a much anticipated big-screen adaptation of On the Road (alongside Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst), he barely spent a weekend at home in Los Angeles. But he still squeezes in time for a chat about his Glamour Man of the Year status before he’s due to jet off again (this time to Brazil), and tells us, “It’s a big honour to be the only man in a world of women.”Between working with his hero, Jeff Bridge, on Tron, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw on Country Strong, it’s hard for the Minnesota-born Garrett to pinpoint a highlight. But having learnt to play the guitar for his role as an up-and-coming country singer in Country Strong, there’s one surreal moment that sticks out. “I got up and sang in a venue in Nashville in from of Gwyneth and Chris Martin, Caleb Followill from Kings of Leon, and Faith Hill. They were all sitting there at the table,” drawls the 26 year old, as though belting out a tune in front of who’s who of pop, country and rock is no biggie. But he claims life hasn’t changed that much. “You’d be surprised, it’s quite simple,” he insists. “I don’t leave my place often. I’m still focusing on work.”However, there is one date he’s making an exception for: The Glamour Awards. “I’m very much looking forward to coming over to London,” he says. Then it’s straight back into promotion for his “passion project”, On The Road. “I’ve been on board for four years, so to finally get to make it is a dream come true.”Update Here is the scan from the magazine. Thanks to Mr Hedlund!
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The star of “Tron: Legacy” will play a country singer alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Dean Moriarty in Walter Salles’ “On the road”
In Garrett Hedlund’s dimension, that is, Roseau, Minnesota, in the agricultural heartland of the US, there are no virtual worlds or flaming Ducatis, just fields of wheat and tractors.
To tell the truth, there’s not even a real cinema. The nearest one, in the town 30 miles from his farm, only shows one film a week, while the nearest multiplex cinema is a three-hour drive away. His Tv only gets four channels, and the only decent show is Cheers. The star of Tron: Legacy learned about film by ruining his parents’ video recorder watching movies over and over again (“I used to love Peter Sellers’ Being There).
He learned to act playing Patroclus in Troy. Garrett has never stopped since.
“It’s incredible, what has happened to me has gone beyond my wildest expectations. Director Joseph Kosinski comes from Montana; as soon as we exchanged glances we had an understanding. Jeff Bridges is a great actor, and Olivia Wilde was perfect, also because of her athletic abilities. I got ready for the film practicing parkour and the martial arts, as well as training in the gym, to the point that I gained ten kilos and discovered muscles I didn’t even know I had. It’s fantastic to see your image projected on a screen in 3D and interact with it”.
Thank you to Elle for finding these and posting them on Garrett Minds
”In a letter Marlon Brando at the end 1950s, Jack Kerouac said “pray for a film to be made “of his novel, On The Road.
A half-century later, the Brazillian filmmaker Walter Salles who has just built
dream of the writer.
When Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) stopped at the end of 2009 MK2 with the scenario on Road packaged in an envelope Kraft, it makes some time adaptation Kerouac’s novel film seeking direction. Precisely since Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights the book in the 1960s. Convinced by the passion Venues for the winding route and three jazzy beatniks, MK2 endorses the project, as finally launched.
Sam Riley (Control) will play Sal Paradise, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) will play Marylou, blond Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy) will play the legendary Dean Moriarty.
The trio is soon completed by Viggo Mortensen the role of William S. Burroughs and Kirsten Dunst in that ofean’s second wife. In early summer, the troupe flew to Canada, first step in a shooting Homeric who will Snow in Patagonia bayous of Louisiana, cotton fields of Arizona to the deserts of Mexico, for completed on the hills
San Francisco. Co-producer Charles Gillibert, barely income of these six intense months, evokes “a film that found his breath because is moving constantly”, As beatniks.
Expected release December 7, 2011”
This has been featured in the February Issue of French magazine Trois Couleurs. You can download it here!
Many thanks for this to Tini from Mr Hedlund! You rock!
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”For our 17th annual Hollywood Issue cover, Vanity Fair went back to the basics—no teenagers, no penguins, no (full-on) nudity, just the most exciting actors and actresses of the moment. Anchoring the front panel are Oscar co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco (himself a best-actor nominee), along with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal, two of the most versatile, likable (and, yes, good-looking) leading men in Hollywood.
The two inside panels feature 11 more stars, from newcomer best-actor/actress nominees Jesse Eisenberg and Jennifer Lawrence to Noomi Rapace, whose stunning performance in the original, Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo propelled her from Stockholm to Hollywood. Joining them are Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Mila Kunis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund, and Robert Duvall. The cover was shot in Los Angeles and New York over the course of two days by photographer Norman Jean Roy. For even more on the cover, read Smith’s account of how it came together and check out a slide show of behind-the-scenes photographs.”
”Garrett Hedlund, the star of Tron: Legacy and Country Strong (he soon got the nickname “Country Tron”), got lost in a cab on his way to Milk Studios, in Hollywood, where he re-united with his Tron co-star Olivia Wilde, who had just wrapped on Cowboys & Aliens (out this summer).”
Thanks to Celine from Hedlund Fan for posting this over at Garrett Minds and thanks to Mr Hedlund for few of the screencaps below! Check the rest of them over at Mr Hedlund Gallery!
There’s no turning back for Garrett Hedlund. The 26-year-old, who left his parents cattle farm in Roseau, Minn., in 2003 to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, is bound for Hollywood stardom, thanks to his breakout roles in “Tron: Legacy” and “Country Strong,” which opens in theaters this Friday. The Moment met up with the actor in a nondescript Brooklyn diner, the kind of place that Hedlund says he pictured himself working in if the whole acting thing hadn’t worked out.
Your career is at a pivotal point. What would you say is one of the biggest obstacles you had to overcome since you started acting?
My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I’d say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
Have you always been such a private person?
I guess so. I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there’s always the town gossip — “oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?” So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
Jeff Bridges, who plays your dad in “Tron: Legacy,” won an Oscar shortly after you guys finished filming. Is there anything that you learned from working with him?
I learn from everyone I work with. I always enjoy watching how people react in specific situations, and if they are as comfortable on set as they are off set. With Jeff it was just nice to be working with an actor that listens and reacts — working with somebody that knows how the scene is supposed to go and isn’t married to the dialogue. You try to stick to the dialogue, but sometimes getting the point across is more important.
How did you prepare for your role in “Tron: Legacy”?
The physical demands for preparing for this role were very extensive and lasted through the entire film. I had to get my motorcycle license, and go to motorcycle training every morning from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and then drive two miles away to go do physical combat training: punches, knees and kicks. And then go into hard-core training for an hour, jumping over things and lifting weights for an hour.
So you got in great shape. That doesn’t sound so bad.
[Laughs] Yeah, I guess. But then for “Country Strong,” as much work that I put into getting in great shape, I had to put in to get into the exact opposite shape.
What was it like working on two completely different films back to back?
“Love Don’t Let Me Down,” which is the original title of “Country Strong,” was just as difficult emotionally as “Tron” was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she’s fallen down too many times and it’s an intense emotional story.
And what did you have to do to prepare for this film?
We filmed in Nashville for two months, and we got there a month early. Tim McGraw has a cabin out on his ranch so I stayed there for the month of December, and kept up with all the guitar rehearsals, ’cause I never knew how to play the guitar before. For four months after “Tron,” I sang and played the guitar every day.
Do you own a motorcycle now or play the guitar?
No. I loved the Ducati Sport 1000 I got to drive in the film, but driving a motorcycle in L.A., knowing how wild I can be at times, would be just a little too careless and selfish for my life. Being able to split the traffic and the freeway seems like something I might like a little too much. But the guitar I’ll keep up. Not publicly performing, but as a private passion. It’s too fulfilling for me to stop.
How is your life in L.A. when you are not working?
I don’t really leave the house that much. When I’m away filming, I never really get to watch any films, or I slip away from my books and the novels I’ve been wanting to read, so when I get home I really just kick my feet up and read everything I meant to read and write what I couldn’t write, or watch what I just couldn’t drag myself to the theater to watch when I was in a different city.
What are you currently reading?
I’m working through getting through all of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.”
Would you ever go back to living in a farm?
Yeah. I feel that everything that pulled me to the city slowly pushes me away from it, and everything I grew up with that pushed me away from the farm is what’s pulling me back. The peace and quiet and the freedom that I actually never realized meant as much as it did. We didn’t have any neighbors for miles, woodlands to run around in. We had a lot of things to catapult our imagination when you didn’t even know what imagination was. Life’s too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
WOW! Many thanks to Tini from MrHedlund for finding all these amazing pictures! That girl simply rocks! 
One of the questions asked by Country Strong is whether or not fame and true love can co-exist. We are getting Garrett’s heartfelt opinion on this subject as a young, single man in Hollywood and learning that his first exposure to Country Music was on his grandpa’s turkey farm where they would crank up the Johnny Cash. The birds seemed to groove to it and he did too!
We’re chatting Garrett’s hopes and dreams as a teen on the farm, love, fame, cowboy hats and a whirlwind year!
TeenHollywood: You’re a young single man in show biz. Do you think love and fame can co-exist? Or maybe only if one of the partners isn’t in the business?
Garrett: It’s a tug of war between levels of passion. I like to write and read as much as I can and I spend a lot of my time doing that. But with the fame angle, what people think is so glamorous isn’t. It can get quite cold and cruel at times. For me it’s all about the love of the art. Being fortunate enough to be on a lot of wonderful films this year was great but a lot of work. To put that work in, to do the research and not cease and not give up and put a thousand percent of your focus on your task at hand, and not cheat yourself, that’s where my love is.
TeenHollywood: So no real time for a true love relationship?
Garrett: If I meet somebody unbelievable, I would know it. But for me, it’s love before fame at least. If fame gets too invasive then, I’ll just dig a hole in the ground and hide. I’d do the exact same thing [my character] Beau did, go back and scale back.
TeenHollywood: Your love interest Chiles [played by Leighton Meester] is all about the fame.. stardom and your character Beau about the art of his songwriting and performing. When you were a kid or teen was having an acting career about stardom or just about the art of acting?
Garrett: I was big into sports as a kid. I always wanted to be a professional baseball player. I would write a lot of players hoping for an autograph in return. One day, Nolan Ryan sent me back his autograph. All my friends said it wasn’t real and I was eating cereal, spilled milk on it and the blue Sharpie smeared and I yelled ‘It’s real!’ So that encouraged me, when I watched film, to write to Universal or MGM and say ‘Can I be in one of your movies?’ Or ‘Can I be in one of your TV shows?’
At first it was just about wanting to be off the farm or going to California and the ocean. I’d see hay fields blowing in the wind and my dad would say ‘That’s our ocean’. When I was studying in Arizona I was studying dense stuff and any book I could get my hands on but the films that moved me the most were the ones that stirred up the most emotion. I just wanted to perform a role so well that I moved somebody in the way that it happened for me.
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