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Actor Joel Edgerton sits down to discuss his role in 'Train Dreams,' detailing the process of playing a character across different stages of life. He talks about how personal experiences as a husband and father informed his performance and the physical challenges of portraying a lifelong logger.
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00:00Are you excited to, decades from now, look back and say,
00:02hey, I aged a lot better than that?
00:04That's my plan.
00:05You know, I felt like a good person to play Robert for a lot of reasons.
00:08I'm a dad and I'm a husband and my greatest fears play out in the film.
00:13So I felt appropriate on an actorly level.
00:16But I did get excited by sort of imagining myself as an older man
00:20and asking the question of how emotional experience and grief
00:25can wear a person's demeanor, shape them in one way,
00:29but how physical labor can shape them in another.
00:32For me, it was, you know, how does a man who's logged all his life move?
00:36And that was a nice physical challenge, too.
00:38Not a good back, I imagine.
00:40No, it's one of the issues there, for sure.
00:42Crack, crack, crack.
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