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Alden Ehrenreich is a versatile actor celebrated for his dynamic performances across various film genres. Born on November 22, 1989, he has gained recognition for his roles in critically acclaimed films, including 'Hail, Caesar!' and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'. Ehrenreich's career highlights include his portrayal of Han Solo in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' (2015), which has solidified his status as a leading actor in the industry. He has also appeared in films such as '10 Years', 'Blue Caprice', and 'Life of Crime'. His work has been recognized with various accolades, including a Golden Globe nomination for his role in 'Hail, Caesar!'. Ehrenreich is known for his dedication to his craft and his ability to bring depth and complexity to his characters. His influence on the film industry is considerable, as he continues to be a sought-after actor in both independent and mainstream projects.

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“That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."”

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“I really feel lucky that I still feel excited about the actual work that I get to do. I just happen to love it, and I could easily see, for somebody else, that not being the case.”

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“Somebody comes to your house. You know they're coming, so it's not a surprise. And they give you an envelope that has your scenes in it. And they sit in the car outside for a half an hour while you read your scenes, then they ring your doorbell and you give your scenes back. Then you shoot the movie a few weeks later or something. The next time you see your scenes is the night before you start shooting. I never read the script [Blue Jasmine], so I didn't really know what it was about.”

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“I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say "Woody."”

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“I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.”

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“[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.”

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“Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.”

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“The movie [Blue Jasmin] shot very quick. I met Cate Blanchett in the car on the way to set, and we did that last scene, and she was just so phenomenal. I had basically met her that day. Because the way he shoots, everybody just shows up and does their thing, and he moves us very quickly.”

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“[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.”

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“One of the big takeaways from that experience [in Blue Jasmin] was just what a thrill it was to act with somebody like Cate Blanchett operating on that caliber. Because what she was doing was very powerful. T”

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“I had one line. My two larger scenes had gone fine, and then on that day I screwed up that line over and over and over again. And every time I screwed it up, they can't use the whole thing because they're only using the one shot [in Blue Jasmin]. That was my last day.”

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“When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.”

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“Their way of working [the Coen brothers] is always kept pretty mysterious. I was so curious to see how they make these movies. It was just such a joy - they seem to have so much fun making their movies.”

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“That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.”

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“[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.”

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“It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].”

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“I met Scarlett [Johansson] briefly, but Josh [Brolin] and George [Clooney], in particular, were so welcoming and so inclusive and really brought me into the fold from the beginning. They were just very considerate of me, and it meant a lot [shootong Hail, Caesar!].”

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“Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.”

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“[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.”

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“I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].”

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“Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters. So it's just that - getting to have more of these singular little adventures where you get to be a part of a completely different world.”

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“But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.”

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“Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.”

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“The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.”

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“Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.”

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“[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.”

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“That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?”

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“The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor at that time is that there was a home base, with job security. You were employed on a regular basis, and you had to sometimes do things you didn't want to do, but it was there. I also liked Hobie Doyle positivity.”

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“For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.”

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“I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.”

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“So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.”

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“Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.”

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“You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.”

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“You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.”

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“For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.”

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“[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'”

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“I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.”

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“With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.”

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“My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.”

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“Each time demands its own kind of film.”

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“What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you can make a movie with a 5D or something and what's going to come out of that. Especially the generation under us who grew up with the internet. When they are making films in the next ten years, they're gonna be so different from what we've seen before because their whole worldview is so different.”

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“I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.”

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“It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from. And something Francis Ford Coppola said when we were doing the movie was, "If you learn something about people when you do dinner with them every week, you'll learn a lot more if you play softball with them every week." This is us learning what the climate is creatively among us.”

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“For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.”

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“When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.”

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“I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.”

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“Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.”

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About the Author

Born: November 22, 1989
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 97

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