Derek Hamilton Interview — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm derck Hamilton I play the role of
2. 0:02Arnold in Becoming Redwood and um Arnold
3. 0:05is the
4. 0:06father of the family that little Redwood
5. 0:09comes to live with and he's sort of a
6. 0:11redneck I guess sort of a rough around
7. 0:13the edges type of guy and um yeah he he
8. 0:17just he really doesn't understand the
9. 0:19world that Redwood comes from and uh
10. 0:21Redwood kind of I think helps him
11. 0:23understand that world and a bit about
12. 0:24himself through the story as he does
13. 0:27most characters in the movie what was
14. 0:30that I no I want to hear that again what
15. 0:33what was that I said I can go see my
16. 0:36father if I want
17. 0:39to that was the hardest part was just
18. 0:42keeping him human and not just becoming
19. 0:44an an an or an animal not
20. 0:47letting that overtake the character to
21. 0:49the point that that's all that he is
22. 0:51that there's still life there there's
23. 0:53still kindness and there's still love
24. 0:55and there's still all those positive
25. 0:56things but at the same time it's all
26. 0:57covered with all the crap that gets
27. 1:00thrown on us as men coming up the
28. 1:02producers the director all the other
29. 1:04actors everybody together just made for
30. 1:06a really enjoyable experience he has a
31. 1:09way of talking to you that you
32. 1:10understand it's a director that can
33. 1:12communicate with his actors in a way
34. 1:14that we understand he just sort of would
35. 1:16set up a scenario and let you build off
36. 1:19of that scenario so I think it it helped
37. 1:21him get some real uh real genuine
38. 1:24moments 1978 was I doing I was probably
39. 1:31playing with a slinky chewing some
40. 1:33Bazooka Bubble Gum saving little comic
41. 1:36strips trying to get some exray glasses
42. 1:38so I could see through girls
43. 1:40dresses and uh skateboarding yeah I had
44. 1:43a little skateboard and yeah I was a kid
45. 1:46I was alive I was alive in 1978
46. 1:51[Music]