I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say "Woody."

Alden Ehrenreich

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I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Alden Ehrenreich

want people

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Alden Ehrenreich

color stories art

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

Alden Ehrenreich

stories movie-love directors

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

Alden Ehrenreich

feet doors rooms

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Alden Ehrenreich

parent brother kids

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

Alden Ehrenreich

romance calling way

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

Alden Ehrenreich

stupid art thinking

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

Alden Ehrenreich

stars fun jobs

Woody Allen is kind of the one example I don't have. Because the way he works and the amount of shooting time that I did on that film, I didn't really get to know him, so he kind of stays as "Woody Allen" to me.

Alden Ehrenreich

shooting example way

The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

Alden Ehrenreich

cowboy real kids

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

Alden Ehrenreich

lunch house years

I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

Alden Ehrenreich

scripts couple years

I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.

Alden Ehrenreich

hearing people firsts

Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.

Alden Ehrenreich

beatty

[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way. And I just was genuinely curious about his experiences in film, and about the people he knew.

Alden Ehrenreich

important people thinking

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

Alden Ehrenreich

beatty actors directors

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

Alden Ehrenreich

growing-up film made

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor at that time is that there was a home base, with job security. You were employed on a regular basis, and you had to sometimes do things you didn't want to do, but it was there. I also liked Hobie Doyle positivity.

Alden Ehrenreich

positivity home jobs

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

Alden Ehrenreich

challenges character past

I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.

Alden Ehrenreich

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