Garrett is a great guy. I have three daughters and no sons, but when I look at Garrett, I can see that he could be my son. There´s something about him that reminds me of myself, which is why casting him as my son was perfect. He was a joy to work with and I think he did an amazing job in “TRON: Legacy.” He´s going to go far.
So nice from Jeff to say such a lovely thing about Garrett. I love this man 
Thanks to MrHedlund! 
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Garrett is nominated in this year’s MTV movie awards! VOTE! NOW!
Tron: Legacy is also nominated in the Best Movie category and Jeff Bridges for the Best line from a movie
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Thanks to Laura from Garrett Minds!
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Best Science Fiction Film
Hereafter (Warner Bros.)
Inception (Warner Bros.)
Iron Man 2 (Paramount/Marvel)
Never Let Me Go (Fox Searchlight)
Splice (Warner Bros.)
Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney Studios)
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (Tron: Legacy) (Walt Disney Studios)
George Clooney (The American) (Focus)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception) (Warner Bros.)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island) (Paramount)
Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man 2) (Paramount/Marvel)
Ryan Reynolds (Buried) (Lionsgate)
Best Music
Daft Punk (Tron: Legacy) (Walt Disney Studios)
Clint Eastwood (Hereafter) (Warner Bros.)
Michael Giacchino (Let Me In) (Overture/Relativity Media)
Gottfried Huppertz (as Conducted by Frank Strobel) (The Complete Metropolis) (Kino Lorber)
John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon) (Paramount/DWA)
Hans Zimmer (Inception) (Warner Bros.)
Best Special Effects
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Karl Denham, Nikos Kalaitzidis - (Tron: Legacy) (Walt Disney Studios)
Angus Bickerton, Barrie Helmsley (The Chronicles of Narnia: The - Voyage of the Dawn Treader) (20th Century Fox)
Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicholas Ait’Hadi, Christian Manz (Harry Potter & The Deathly- Hallows: Part 1) (Warner Bros.)
Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Begg- (Inception) (Warner Bros.)
Ken Ralston, Tom Peitzman, David Schaub, Carey Villegas-(Alice in Wonderland) (Walt Disney Studios)
Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright, Daniel Sudick - (Iron Man 2) (Paramount/Marvel)
BUT LOOK!
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale (The Fighter) (Paramount)
Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go) (Fox Searchlight)
Tom Hardy (Inception) (Warner Bros.)
Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) (Walt Disney Studios)
John Malkovich (Red) (Summit Entertainment)
Mark Ruffalo (Shutter Island) (Paramount)
YEY GARRETT! This is so exciting! 
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Tron: Legacy will be on DVD and Blu-Ray the April 5th! That’s the US release date but I hope it’s going to be the same here in UK! We should find out soon.
“Tron: Legacy Limited Edition (Five-Disc Combo Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy + Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition Blu-ray)”
The special features :
• First Look at TRON: Uprising, the Disney XD animated series
• Visualizing TRON – How did the filmmakers bring to life the gorgeous world inside the GRID?
• Installing the cast – Hear from all the stars of TRON: Legacy and their experience in making the movie
• The Next Day: Flynn Lives Revealed [BD Exclusive - Interactive bonus piece] – What happens immediately following the end of the movie? What is Flynn Lives and who is responsible for their efforts?
• TRON: Disney Second Screen [BD Exclusive - Interactive bonus piece] – Using your iPad or computer, watch the movie with exclusive interactive elements available on your 2nd screen
• Launching the Legacy – Beyond the amazing visuals is a rich story filled with an entire world’s history and mythology. Discover how the writers and filmmakers created this complex fiction
• Disc Roars – Watch director Joseph Kosinski use the raucous crowd at Comic-Con to record actual ADR for the disc game stadium crowd
• Music video – “Derezzed” written, produced, and performed by Daft Punk
You can pre-order this at Amazon!
Thanks to Celine for posting over at Garrett Minds.
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Garrett Hedlund and I bonded over his rural northwest Minnesota roots. I used to live on the border, there, and got lost driving a friend to where he grew up (Roseau and Strandquist) the first winter I lived in North Dakota. No road signs, dark, snowing, and finger drifts crossing the road in front of my tiny, Southern-born Chevy.
“You need to look for Cattle Crossing signs,” he says. “Only thing that shows you where the road is.”
The last time Hedlund was up there, “It was 40 below,” he says. Same here, I say. And you remember what they used to say about OUR kind (people who have moved away)? “Forty below keeps the riff-raff out.”
Got a laugh out of him on that one.
Here’s my piece on GH, which I wrote initially to coincide with the “TRON” release, but which I may re-jigger (lots more notes of him talking about ‘Country Strong’) when it hits print and the wires.
In the annals of moviedom, December 2010 could go down as the month that Garrett Hedlund became a movie star.
This weekend, he’s front and center in Disney’s big budget (as much as $200 million) 3D blockbuster, “TRON: Legacy.” Then there’s the awards season country music romance “Country Strong,” starring Gwyneth Paltrow as a fading singer, Tim McGraw as her manager husband and Hedlund as the struggling young singer-songwriter who might be just what she needs. That opens in some cities in December, in the rest of the country in January.
And he just finished shooting a film based on Jack Kerouac’s Beat novel, “On the Road.”
“Two nights ago I was hanging out with Carolyn Cassady,” Hedlund says. Cassady’s the widow of Neal Cassady, Hedlund’s character, a pivotal person in Keroauc’s life and one of the inspirations for “On the Road.” “Yesterday morning, I was driving a 1949 Hudson Hornet across the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. We finished the scene, I stopped the car, jumped on a plane, and flew to LA for the premiere of ‘Tron.’ Hollywood Boulevard was all lit up and ‘TRON’ blue. Surreal.
“Then the next morning, I get up and start talking to reporters about these movies I’m so proud of,” Hedlund says. “I just don’t know how to express my unbelievaty at all this. I know unbelievaty’s not a word! It’s more than unbelievable to me.”
Hedlund was in the 2004 big screen “Friday Night Lights,” playing the kid living with an abusive dad (Tim McGraw). He had a role in the hit 2005 action hit “Four Brothers,” billed well below star Mark Wahlberg.
Now, at 26, he’s getting his shot in “two roles, two films, that could not be more opposite.” But they both came about, he believes, because of “On the Road,” which he was cast in way back in 2007.
“Two years went by, and we were all at a point of giving up…I was still completely on board, utterly believing in the project. I was going to the Coinstar machine just to come up with walking around money.
“But I had the confidence of having ‘On the Road’ in the works when I walked into rooms to meet with casting people. I had that going in to read for ‘Tron.’ And I had it with ‘Country Strong,’ too. This movie that was in danger of not being made backed me up.”
The Roseau, Minnesota native says his rural Midwestern roots played a part in landing his big break roles, starring opposite two Oscar winners (Jeff Bridges in ‘Tron,’ Paltrow in ‘Country Strong.’).
“Joe Kosinski, who directed ‘Tron,’ is from Iowa, and we met and had this immediate Midwest connection. I bought into his vision, the movie he was going for, and he believed in me as Sam Flynn.”
“And ‘Country Strong,’ growing up on a farm, Tim McGraw and the other great country stars filled the airwaves around our house. Our only radio station played only country music.”
He landed the roles, buffed up and brushed up on 1982’s ‘Tron,’ ready to bring his game face to his scenes with “the incredibly inspiring” Jeff Bridges. But that was nothing like the work he had to put in to be a convincing singer and guitarist in “Country Strong.”
“From August (2009) onward, I was practicing, hard-core guitar training. I would go into the studio and practice, cutting old Hank [Williams] Sr. tracks, just to chart some progress at building credibility.”
His co-star, singer-turned-actor McGraw, gave him polish.
“Tim let me stay In his cabin down near Nashville for a month and a half. I needed to be there, be around it, just to absorb it.
“Tim’s advice to me was ‘just leave and breathe country music, all day every day. Be singing it, listening to it and thinking about it.’ That’s what I did, along with playing all day every day. I didn’t want to use a hand double or have somebody else do the singing. You’ve got to get past the un-coordination, falling on your face trying to sing and play a song.”
“TRON: Legacy” is pulling down mixed reviews, with Hedlund “decent if vanilla” notices (Empire Magazine) in the rare review that even mentions the sci-fi spectacle’s acting. The acting showcase “Country Strong” may be where he wins his spurs. Meanwhile, he’s just soaking up what just happened, and what may be about to happen.
“I’m planning on sitting on the couch through the holidays, maybe even by myself, and waiting to see what the new year holds.”
Thanks to Elle
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