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Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo In the new film Resurrecting the Champ, Josh Hartnett plays Erik Kernan, a mediocre sports reporter for the Denver Times who has never been quite able to surpass the fame and success of his radio broadcaster father. Down on his luck with a crumbling family life, Erik is on the hunt for his big break. His potential ticket to big time reporting comes in the form of a homeless man known as The Champ (Samuel L. Jackson), who claims to have once been a great boxer named “Battling Bob Satterfield.” Everyone thinks Bob is dead, and Erik believes he has found the story of a lifetime. The film is based on a real Los Angeles Times Magazine article by J.R. Moehringer. For Hartnett, the role of Erik was an opportunity to show a different side of himself on screen. After playing many young romantic leads, Hartnett seems ready to take on more mature material. In Resurrecting the Champ he plays a father who has a close relationship with his son. He’s also a man of questionable ethics and integrity. But Hartnett saw director Rod Lurie’s vision for the film and decided it was a movie he simply had to make. “[Rod] came to me with the script and he came to me with the article and not with the book, but I read the book,” Hartnett says. “And I talked to Rod a lot about what he was trying to make as far as this film went and he said it was about fathers and sons, about journalistic integrity—all these themes that he had in his mind. The biggest thing for him was the fathers and sons aspect and I could really relate to that and I thought it was a good direction for the film because ultimately there are probably 30 films that could be made out of every script depending on what the director is attached to, the ideas that they’re attached to within the script. And I thought that he was right on the money with that and it seemed like a kind of movie I wanted to make.” Plus, he adds, the impressive cast didn’t hurt either. “Of course when Sam came on that sweetened the deal,” he says. “And Alan Alda. And Kathryn [Morris] is amazing in this film. Everybody, everybody’s great.” The film shot in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the cast was able to make this location their home away from home. “Whenever you go on location and you’re away from your family and friends and you’re working on a film there is a certain sense of community,” he explains. “Communitas is the word for it, where it’s a quickly formed community that doesn’t last for very long but it’s sort of a brotherhood, for lack of better phrase. You’re all here for the same thing; you’re all here to make this project. Everybody has there own specialties but for the ... |
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