- Title: FJ-HRN-740
- Summary: Fast Food Nation / Greg Kinnear: HRN-740 Fast Food Nation Greg Kinnear A01. HRN-740 In: 23.11.55 Out: 23.12.54 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear No Id worked with Richard Linklater a few years ago and was driving through the desert one afternoon and we were on a call and he said hey have you read Fast Food Nation and said no and he said you should pick it up. And I did and I read it in about a day. I mean its an amazing book, it really is and I really had my eyes open to a lot of issues that I just had no idea about and he told me that they were doing a movie about it which I thought good for you, tell me when the documentary opens and Ill check it out. But I had no idea that he was going to do it as a obviously a narrative story with real characters and that seemed like a wild idea but I liked the script, I thought it was a real interesting story and kind of a identified with the themes of the book and told some, and told it in a way that didnt feel very formulaic, it felt very original. A02. HRN-740 In: 23.12.55 Out: 23.13.37 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear In some ways I guess yeah. You know don Henderson is a marketing executive with Mickeys and hes been asked to look into a problem with meat and I dont know usually Im asked to play a character whos either a good guy or a bad guy. Don is neither or hes both, you know hes somebody kind of just going through the day to day maybe having some moral questions about whats going on but also having to take care of his family and make a mortgage and take care of his kids and put em in school and in that way hes really in every man. A03. HRN-740 In: 23.13.59 Out: 23.14.37 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear Yeah I think that that, you know there were some elements thrown in there that arent directly taken out of the book but you know obviously they had plenty of license once they sat down to write the script. I mean what interested me was not to go do some big message movie cause I dont particularly liked to be preached to in films but the fact that they had characters that I believed and they told a non- conventional story and I just kind of thought well this is an interesting piece of filmmaking that I hadnt seen before. A04. HRN-740 In: 23.14.43 Out: 23.15.33 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear You know it defiantly, its a shocking you know ending and it is, it makes you think and feel I think which is more then you can say for a lot of films and I think thats the strength of it. I think that different people ask different questions and people will hop on different themes more then others but for me Ive never been much of a fast food consumer before, I eat red meat and Eric Schlosser the writer of the book does, I was very happy to hear that by the way. I was like do you still, yeah, ok ok. But so Im not a vegetarian but in terms of my understanding of the fast food business has certainly changed and my feelings about it has changed.
- Description:23:11:23 - 23:11:55 - A01. HRN-740 In: 23.11.55 Out: 23.12.54 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear No Id worked with Richard Linklater a few years ago and was driving through the desert one afternoon and we were on a call and he said hey have you read Fast Food Nation and said no and he said you should pick it up. And I did and I read it in about a day. I mean its an amazing book, it really is and I really had my eyes open to a lot of issues that I just had no idea about and he told me that they were doing a movie about it which I thought good for you, tell me when the documentary opens and Ill check it out. But I had no idea that he was going to do it as a obviously a narrative story with real characters and that seemed like a wild idea but I liked the script, I thought it was a real interesting story and kind of a identified with the themes of the book and told some, and told it in a way that didnt feel very formulaic, it felt very original. 23:12:55 - A02. HRN-740 In: 23.12.55 Out: 23.13.37 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear In some ways I guess yeah. You know don Henderson is a marketing executive with Mickeys and hes been asked to look into a problem with meat and I dont know usually Im asked to play a character whos either a good guy or a bad guy. Don is neither or hes both, you know hes somebody kind of just going through the day to day maybe having some moral questions about whats going on but also having to take care of his family and make a mortgage and take care of his kids and put em in school and in that way hes really in every man. 23:13:59 - A03. HRN-740 In: 23.13.59 Out: 23.14.37 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear Yeah I think that that, you know there were some elements thrown in there that arent directly taken out of the book but you know obviously they had plenty of license once they sat down to write the script. I mean what interested me was not to go do some big message movie cause I dont particularly liked to be preached to in films but the fact that they had characters that I believed and they told a non- conventional story and I just kind of thought well this is an interesting piece of filmmaking that I hadnt seen before. 23:14:43 - A04. HRN-740 In: 23.14.43 Out: 23.15.33 Sound Bite: Greg Kinnear You know it defiantly, its a shocking you know ending and it is, it makes you think and feel I think which is more then you can say for a lot of films and I think thats the strength of it. I think that different people ask different questions and people will hop on different themes more then others but for me Ive never been much of a fast food consumer before, I eat red meat and Eric Schlosser the writer of the book does, I was very happy to hear that by the way. I was like do you still, yeah, ok ok. But so Im not a vegetarian but in terms of my understanding of the fast food business has certainly changed and my feelings about it has changed.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2006
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-740