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"He has an unbelievable sweetness, innocence and non-Hollywood-kid attitude that was perfect,"—DloAB producer Jay Shapiro "Emile came in and I felt he was inexperienced because he hadn't done a movie before. I thought, 'Wait -- I have to have this 14 year old kid with this movie on his shoulders, he's in nearly every scene, we're going to be shooting for 37 days. Is he going to be able to keep going? In the end, he won me over because I saw that he brought such a great emotional truth to the character."- Peter Care, DloAB director. “"I needed a kid who could go toe-to-toe with Kevin Kline and also had a movie-star quality. Emile was very obviously that kid. He has a radiance and luminosity about him, and he's very complex for a young actor. That was evident when he wanted to play the adult Sedgewick - he'd honestly thought about how to prepare to play a 40-year-old." – Michael Hoffman, The Emperor’s Club director "A couple of these kids would come in and I thought, 'Oh my God, this person has to go toe-to-toe with Kevin Kline.' What was fascinating was how clear it was when Emile Hirsch came in. His complexity and intelligence and natural instincts were so strong, we knew we had found Sedgewick Bell."- Michael Hoffman “Well, I'll tell you. When I first realized that there would be a lot of young actors I thought, ‘Oh no, that's the kiss of death.’ But these kids are really, truly wonderful. They are not just good-looking kids - they are good-looking, too - but Emile Hirsch has a real magnetism on the screen. He's able to go head-to-head with a 50-something year-old man in there. The other two kids, Jesse Eisenberg and Paul Dano, are just wonderful. They are terrific. You like them, they are subtle, they are funny, they are sympathetic. They are not just TV stars, they are real actors. Emile, I know, studied this role. He wanted to play the older version of Sedgewick Bell as well. Emile at the time was 15. He's very serious about his acting. He's a serious guy and he pushes himself. He'll go far.”- Ethan Canin, writer, “The Palace Thief”. “CHRIS: They’re both really, really hard workers. Emile had to work virtually every day on the film. Emile and Elisha really had to step it up a notch and work really hard on the movie. They were extremely dedicated, extremely focused. No one was ever late, nobody ever had any problems with anyone, there were no complaints, no arguments, no fights. It was all positive. Elisha and Emile had their part a few months before they cast me or Paul Dano and before they cast Timothy Olyphant. So it was one of those things where they had been waiting around for a while and everything was kind of building inside of them, and they may have been getting anxious, so when it actually came down to doing it, they put their heads straight on and totally went to full gear. During filming, we all caught this momentum that just kept going and was really fun and positive. So they were really dedicated hard workers, in my opinion, where they put all their energy into doing it. I really have a lot of respect for Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert. They really surprised me with how hard they can work.”- Chris Marquette (the Girl Next Door) “It's funny, the one thing that set him apart from the other people that we had auditioned was the idea that he had this vulnerability to the character. Myself, I had to try and bring out this kind of confidence to persuade him and kind of intimidate him throughout the film, at least in the beginning. And Emile had a vulnerability where he had to believe all that and be intimidated. And it's hard for a confident person like Emile to kind of [downplay that]. It's not really him, I suppose.”- Elisha Cuthbert (The Girl Next Door) |
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