Timberlake and 'Alpha Dog' Crew Close Out Sundance In Style.
"That's pretty good," Justin Timberlake said, moments before the film's world premiere, when a reporter suggested that he'd walk into the theater a singer and would walk out an actor. Grinning, he added: "I've been acting like I could sing for years." The media avidly pursued Timberlake around Park City for days as he kicked off his acting career in style — and he obliged, doing interviews, attending screenings, dancing at the film's afterparty and taking some time to hit the couldn't-be-fresher powder on the local slopes. "I went snowboarding," he said, assuring his fans that he can handle himself. "I'm good."
During his introductory remarks at the "Alpha Dog" screening, director Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook") pulled no
punches as he prepared the audience for a hard-drinking, bong-toting, trigger-happy Timberlake unlike anything they'd come to expect from the 'NSYNC star.
"You don't watch this film," Cassavetes said, half-jokingly. "You endure it."
Earlier, Timberlake had joined his "Alpha" co-stars to discuss the brutal, emotionally powerful film based on the true story of a drug-dealing thug (played by Emile Hirsch, "Lords of Dogtown") and a group of young wannabe gangsters in way over their heads. "I met the guy that
my character is based on, and it was a trippy experience," Timberlake
revealed. "I spent about three hours in an upstate California prison,
and I took a lot away from it."
"It's inspired by true events, by the Jesse James Hollywood case," said
Hirsch, whose character in the film is named Johnny Truelove. "It's
about this teenaged drug kingpin in the valley, and all of his friends,and how one of the conflicts [he's involved with] gets him and all of
his friends in trouble.
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