“We spent a lot of time together and we then made a somewhat educated leap of faith. “While I was checking him out, he was certainly checking me out,” Hanson said in the Guardian interview.
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Hanson said he had only a passing knowledge of hip-hop when he entered the project, and that he and Eminem “had to convince each other” they could both handle the movie as each envisioned it. “Everything about the story felt better to tell it here in Detroit,” Hanson told the AP in 2002.
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Hanson chose to shoot the movie in the actual burned-out homes and vacant storefronts of the real city. Hanson explored a different sort of darkness in “8 Mile,” the film starring Eminem that explored the gritty streets and trailer parks of Detroit and closely mirrored the rapper’s own younger life. Confidential’ who took our lines, gave them emotion, humor, life,” Hanson said in his Oscar acceptance speech. “We had an extraordinary ensemble of actors in ‘L.A. Confidential” introduced Russell Crowe to American audiences and was a career high point for many of those involved, including Kim Basinger, who also won an Oscar.Ĭrowe addressed Hanson directly on Twitter Tuesday night, saying “Thank you for believing in me. Hanson was nominated for best director and the movie for best picture. Hanson and co-writer Brian Helgeland won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. “All the characters and motivations are complex in Curtis Hanson’s intense, visceral noir,” Associated Press film critic Christy Lemire wrote of the film. Confidential” about cops, criminals and tabloid rags in 1950s Los Angeles and streamlining it into a riveting thriller without losing its nuance. Hanson was lauded for taking James Ellroy’s massive novel “L.A. Confidential,” which he co-wrote and directed. Hanson’s breakthrough as an acclaimed filmmaker came with 1997’s “L.A.
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I’m grateful to have known and worked with him.” Maguire said through his publicist that Hanson “was a generous and talented man. Brittany Murphy admitted in an interview on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) that she and Eminem became romantically involved during production.
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It was great.He also was in the director’s chair for “Wonder Boys” the 2000 film starring Tobey Maguire and Michael Douglas that is considered his best work by many fans and critics. Eventually we were just like, 'we should go.' We are not going to get this role. And then Jason got up, and the exact same thing: 'yo what's up? It's me, Cheddar Bob.' And we just-I actually think we didn't finish. Like, auditioning is so embarrassing, but having your friend there in front of you-and we were both in that moment just like, what were we thinking? Why did we do this? We barely got through it on my side. We were just like, this was such a bad idea. As soon as I was like, 'yo what's up it's me, Cheddar Bob,' we both just started laughing hysterically. And as soon as we were, like, in the room and started-I went first. And it seemed like-we both were like, I think we actually are doing pretty good at this. We prepared the scenes, and as we were preparing it alone, it was-we were actually doing very well. And I was going to call you and ask if you could read the Eminem role for me.' And I was like, 'well, that's perfect.' So we actually had a sleepover at my house that night.
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And I was like, 'can you read this with me?' And he was like, 'oh, that's funny because I also have an audition for Cheddar Bob. I'm good friends with Jason Segel, so I called Jason. And so what the actors were told to do is-it was incumbent on them to-it was their responsibility to bring in a person to read with the other side of the scene. And I think she just didn't-felt uncomfortable reading Eminem's lines, basically. You know, this casting director didn't want to hire someone to do it with her and did not want to do it herself because Eminem was the other person in the scene. And often, when you go in to audition for a film, there's someone who reads with you. During a May 2021 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," Seth Rogen remembered that both he and his friend Jason Segel auditioned for the role of "Cheddar Bob," even though they were fairly sure that neither of them was right for the role: "So we were auditioning for a character in 8 Mile-I believe his name is Cheddar Bob-who is, like, a friend of Eminem's character, who's Rabbit.