| What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - 1993 Paramount Pictures Character Gilbert Grape Distinguishing traits/features: Chipped tooth Red dyed hair Flair for sarcasm Trivia Johnny would apologize to Darlene Cates after shooting any particular scene in which he would have to ridicule her character. For this role, a dentist had to bond, then chip his front tooth. Much of his performance in WEGG is based on the time he spent in the southeastern town of Miramar, Florida |
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| “It was a very scary, sad time for me. I have never seen WEGG. I can’t watch it.” |
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| ““Gilbert Grape would seem like a pretty normal kind of guy but I was interested in what was going on under the surface – the hostility and the rage that he is only able to show it a couple of times during the film. I understand that feeling of being stuck in a place, whether it is geographical or emotional. I can understand the rage of wanting to completely escape from it, from everybody and everything you know and start a new life.” |
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| Lasse Hallstrom: “Johnny likes to hide behind the eccentrics he plays. He has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being pretentious.” |
| Peter Hedges:” I think it is absolutely perfect casting. I couldn’t have asked for better. He (JD) has an almost burning desire to make ugly choices. He comes to a movie with a physical beauty that’s just astonishing, and at the same time he has no interest in being that. When I first met him, he had really long hair and was very quiet and shy.” |
| “At some point or another Gilbert allowed himself to die inside, slowly kind of killing or martyring himself for his family, becoming a surrogate father – even to his mother. That kind of loyalty may start out as pure love, but it can work against you, with love and devotion turning into resentment and guilt and losing yourself, which is the worst thing that anyone can do, because then you hate others because of what you’ve done to yourself.” |
| JD: “Lasse thinks that I like to hide behind weird characters so that I’m not exposed and that Gilbert is the most real thing that I’ve played; closer to reality and closer to me. It could be true. I don’t know; I’m not in therapy.” |
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