![]() No way do I want to fake it,” he explains. “There’s 100% focus on the work and the practice and trying to get there. Hedlund put in months of preparation, immersing himself in country music, moving to Nashville and learning to play guitar and sing. Hedlund jumped immediately from the sleek, neon look of “Tron” into Shana Feste’s “Country Strong,” playing an up-and-coming country singer who helps revive the career of a fallen star, played by Gwyneth Paltrow. Acting in the film required a balance of injecting energy and fun into the action sequences while injecting humanity and emotion into the story’s more serious themes. Hedlund plays Sam Flynn (the son of Jeff Bridges’ character from the first film), whose search for his missing father leads him to a virtual computer gaming world. “It was a whole new step, a world of unknown, and I wanted to go down that road.” “It was something that I thought was going to be incredibly new and revolutionary, especially working with 3D cameras,” Hedlund says. Hedlund, whose credits include “Troy,” the feature film version of “Friday Night Lights,” John Singleton’s “Four Brothers” and the fantasy film “Eragon,” signed on to “Tron” after seeing test footage put together by director Joseph Kosinski to convince Disney an update to the 1982 original could be done well. ![]() ![]() Garrett Hedlund has been scarcely seen onscreen the past few years, but the 26-year-old Minnesota-born actor will be impossible to miss as the star of Disney’s holiday tentpole release “Tron: Legacy.” Garrett Hedlund in Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch ![]()
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