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 Justin Timberlake
Spotlight By: Benjamin Lee When it comes to making the move from music to movies, the track record is rocky. For every Elvis there’s a Madonna, a Britney or even worse, a Mariah. It was inevitable that fresh-faced boy-band member turned credible RnB star Justin Timberlake would take a crack at the big screen sooner or later. His first real role was up against acting heavyweights Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman in the drama Edison but the film flopped straight to DVD last year causing many to question Timberlake’s credentials as an actor. This month, he makes another stab at becoming a fully-fledged movie star with the true-life teen drama Alpha Dog. Timberlake plays Frankie, a rich Hollywood kid who gets involved in an escalating disaster revolving around the kidnap of a minor. Timberlake admits that he’s never once taken an acting class and so his first day on set was a real learning curve. ‘I felt somewhat like a fish out of water’ he recalls, ‘But it was amazing to be around people my age who were so gifted. I learned so much from them, I was like a sponge. I really was a fan of all of them. This was an amazing experience for me.’ Timberlake, like many of his co-stars, had to go through a lot of preparation for the movie. In an attempt to bond the stars together, and also to give them the right physiques, director Nick Cassavetes decided to impose rigorous physical training. ‘Before we got to our first day of principal photography we trained together for 3 months’ Timberlake tells, ‘I think Nick wanted us to have a sense of camaraderie. These characters that ours were based off grew up playing baseball together. It was important to develop some chemistry between all of us. Hours and hours of weight-lifting. I’ve toured since I was 14 and I’ve never done anything like that.’ After the physical training, it was also necessary to give Timberlake the right look, and that meant a lot of tattoos. ‘I created all of them actually’ he reveals, ‘I sat with the artist for like 2 or 3 days. I based some of them off of my friends. I think my character’s tattoos have their own theme.’ When basing a character and a situation in reality, it’s important to make things seem as credible as possible. ‘I got the script first before I really got the story’ Timberlake shares, ‘Then when we signed up for this film we got a stack of files that were literally that thick. We had information to research these characters.’ Since the character he plays is based on a real-life youth who is currently serving time in prison, Timberlake got the chance to meet him and this meeting changed his ideas on how he wanted to play the character. ‘I went to the prison and spoke to him for a couple of hours’ he recalls, ‘I walked away from that meeting deciding that I ... |
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