Relentlessly.Īfter two years in the Marines, he broke his sternum in a serious bike accident. And how time is precious, and you don’t want to waste it.” And once you find that focus, pursue it. “You’re just more aware of how much you can accomplish in a day, I think. “So I wanted to do things that I was too scared to do before.
“I think you become very aware, probably more than average people your age, that we’re all going to die. But after nearly getting killed during a training exercise, he decided that what he really wanted was to act.
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So I just started working odd jobs and that was that, I thought.” There’s nothing like a near-death experience to focus the mind.Īfter 9/11, Driver joined the Marines, and loved it. I’m embarrassed now! Especially because I made such a production of telling people that I wasn’t coming back. “I probably should have been more embarrassed by it. His car broke down and he ran out of money. He didn’t get in, so instead he set off to make it in Los Angeles, saying goodbye to all his friends and vowing never to return. give up?Īfter school, Driver applied to study drama at Juilliard. As well as the lessons we can learn from him. I’m very happy to be working with him.”Īs the hype ramps up for the latest Star Wars film – with Driver featured again as Kylo Ren – here are a few insights into his creative life. But later remembering so many things from that movie. “Jim Jarmusch, he’s a guy I never dreamed I’d get to work with! I remember driving an hour and a half to see Coffee and Cigarettes in Indianapolis, and not really understanding it. When I ask if he misses his plush Star Wars trailer, he just laughs. It’s also where he seems most comfortable. This was the kind of project he was more used to: running to set up a shot before the autumn light fails, working quickly to a tight budget. A man who seems to be constantly working, he had to leave at 10am to get to New Jersey, where he was shooting the Jim Jarmusch film, Paterson. We met in a café near his home in Brooklyn, for breakfast. There wasn’t much else to do, other than kick the shit out of each other.” So Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and going to the movies were pretty much our only avenue out of this really kind of depressed, industrial town.
We didn’t travel, no one could afford to go to Europe. “Mishawaka is many good things but cultural hub of the world it is not. It certainly resonated with Driver, who is from Mishawaka, a small town in Indiana where for fun, he and his friends invented their own version of Fight Club. Luke wanting to escape, that really resonates with people.” “It’s really about someone who’s in a small town and wants to get out of it. In the end, it was director JJ Abrahams’ emphasis on story and character that won him over. One person is brushing leaves, and the other person’s vacuuming something.” They call ‘cut’, and hundreds of people descend. “Going from that to a production where we have 50 of everything is interesting. “Usually, I do things where they ask you to bring your own clothes to set because they don’t have a costume budget!” he said, when we met just before the release of The Force Awakens in 2015. For most actors, this would be a no-brainer. Just as he was finishing the second season of Girls, Adam Driver got a call from his agent asking if he’d be interested in playing Kylo Ren in the reboot of the Star Wars franchise.
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