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B-Roll – Gran Torino Premiere – shots of the poster, the Warner Bros. water tower, the marquee, the car, the poster

Sound Bite: Arthur Cartwright
It was scary, it was scary. No he came out of that role really really quick. He was really nice, real nice guy, real nice guy. But as soon as that camera started rolling, he was like, what are you doing? So you know, that was my little Clint Eastwood impression.

Sound Bite: Arthur Cartwright
No I actually wasn’t. Looks pretty nice sitting over there, too.

B-Roll – Gran Torino Premiere – people on red carpet, Christopher Carley and Ahney Her, not sure, not sure, Nana Gbewonyo, Carley, three people, Nana Gbewonyo

Sound Bite: Ahney Her
It was so great. I can’t even explain it, it’s too big of a description.

Sound Bite: Ahney Her
Well I happened to be at a soccer tournament walking around and I took my friends to sign up for the auditions and the casting people, they told me to sign up, so I was like, why not and then I signed up, and what do you know, here I am.

Sound Bite: Ahney Her
I play Sue, the older sister of Thao. She’s pretty feisty. She knows how to control herself. She’s pretty much the man of the house and uh she builds a bond between Walt and Thao.

Sound Bite: Ahney Her
Um at first it was, because I had no idea what was going to happen, but you get used to it and you learn how to work the way he wants you to work and I became used to it.

Sound Bite: Nana Gbewonyo
Oh, I know I’m about to be cliché on this one but uh “Go ahead punk, make my day.”

Sound Bite: Christopher Carley
I play a very young, naïve priest. Uh although not as young and naïve as Clint’s character would think, and I make a promise to his wife that I will get him to go to confession so I have a daunting task ahead of me that I’m not really aware of to get him to come to confession.

Sound Bite: Christopher Carley
Uh I love Unforgiven and I love it when he says to Gene Hackman that uh he says he should’ve armed himself and Gene Hackman tells him that he just shot an unarmed man.

Sound Bite: Christopher Carley
I went in and I auditioned for Ellen Chenoweth. I went in and I read one scene and then I went in a couple weeks later and read another scene twice and then I got a call maybe a couple months later. Yeah.

B-Roll – Gran Torino Premiere – not sure, Christopher Carley, with Ahney Her, John Carroll Lynch, Allison Eastwood

Sound Bite: Jack Earle Haley
That’s incredible. I mean it’s phenomenal. And I love how, it seems to me too it’s how year after year I’m dying to see the movie that I know about and then all of a sudden there’s like one right behind it. you know like The Flags of our Fathers and then bam, he made another one as well. You know this year as well after Changeling which was an incredible film and then for this one to be so close in time to it it’s like, how does he do it? Does the guy sleep?

B-Roll – Gran Torino Premiere – Jack Earle Hayle, John Carroll Lynch

Sound Bite: John Carroll Lynch
Yeah I mean he’s not as a person he’s so open and giving and as a director that’s the same thing. Um but the best part about the character I play as this barber is they have these conversations every 2 weeks and they actually genuinely like each other so he isn’t hard to me, I’m hard right back. So it’s about 2 guys who are looking to spar with each other, so it feels like a really good give and take.

Sound Bite: John Carroll Lynch
Um I’m amazed at how fast he works. I’m amazed at how fast he turned this movie around. But I know that he’s, the best part about what he’s doing now is he’s doing scripts he really wants to do the way he wants to do them and he’s not worried about anything. It’s really fun to watch an artist get to a place where he doesn’t have to worry about anything else, it’s fun.

Sound Bite: Bee Vang
Oh you know when I first met him, I was like ah, how am I gonna meet him? What am I gonna do what am I gonna do what am I gonna say? And when I finally met him I was just like wow, you know, he’s just a regular person, just a human being, not saying that he’s regular cause because he’s Mr. Eastwood and uh after meeting him I was just like, you know, I won’t let this intimidate me to do my role in this movie so that’s how I always seen him and that’s what has helped me so far in this film.

Sound Bite: Bee Vang
Oh yes I grew up watching a lot of Westerns and um and I’ve I loved Mystic River and I just I own Letters From Iwo Jima too.

Sound Bite: John C. McGinley
No, that’d be every word he’s spoken in Unforgiven, which I think is next to Butch and Sundance the perfect western.

Sound Bite: John C. McGinley
I had a Mustang GT when I was out here about 10 years ago for about 2 years or 3 years, whatever the lease was, and it was too small for me.

Sound Bite: Brian Haley
Uh well you know, there’s, there’s very little difference between his uh presence directing, because he’s such an unassuming guy. I mean he completely puts you at ease, and so it’s you know with him it kind of surprises you a little bit that there, oh yeah that’s right this is Clint Eastwood and you see it come out every once and awhile. But he’s so good at putting you at ease. He’s just one of those old school guys that you just like to go out and have drinks with. Funny and unassuming, very humble, so that’s my answer.

Sound Bite: Brian Haley
Oh muscle cars, holy cow yeah growing up in the 70s, yeah my brother we wanted this 1968 GTO that was just our dream car and this is a lot like it. Yeah this is definitely my era where this had come out before when I was a real young kid in the 70s as everyone wanted these so yeah, beautiful.

Sound Bite: Angelina Jolie
I’m very excited. I’ve been looking forward to this. (talks) Well I’ve seen Benjamin Button but I’m very excited about that as well.

Sound Bite: Brian Howe
From this movie? (talks) I know the whole beginning of Dirty Harry. (talks) “I know what you’re thinkin. Did he fire 6 shots or only 5? To tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kinda forgot myself. But seeing how this is a .357 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, I can blow your head clean off. You’ve got to ask yourself a question, ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well do ya, punk.” (talks) From this movie it’s “Get off my lawn.”

Sound Bite: Brian Howe
Um it says a lot about the kind of actor he is. That you know you’re off camera and you’re talking and those you know steely blue eyes, they’re twinkling, and smiling and everything, and then you’re on camera opposite him and he’s this crusty really angry old guy and suddenly those 2 eyes are boring holes through your skull and that smile becomes a scowl and he morphs into this other guy and it’s very easy you keep yourself open to it, it’s very easy to react to it very honestly and um that’s a really good actor that can do that, that you can forget for those few seconds who you’re looking at.

Sound Bite: Geraldine Hughes
Um, okay, um there’s one I can’t tell on camera, but I’ll tell the one. When I went to shoot my first scene, which was the first scene of the film, and I was standing on set, and he’s coming to set and we’re all ready to shoot and you haven’t rehearsed anything and the camera’s ready and I’m standing there completely terrified, as terrified as I am right now talking to you, and um, and I look at the first AD, and I said, when do I know when to go, when to start? And he went, and I went you’ve got to be kidding me does he say action? So I said, how do I know? And he said, you’ll just feel it. Feel it? I’m standing… I’m standing on a Clint Eastwood set and I have to feel it? And then about 30 seconds later I hear, “Okay Geraldine.” Oh that’s action, okay we can start. It’s so brilliant because it’s like no other experience.