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Premiering Camp X-Ray Interview by Sarah G. Mason
with Lane Garrison From Prison Break to Bonnie & Clyde to his most recent film Camp X-Ray, actor Lane Garrison’s resume is far from lighthearted. Luckily, the real-life Garrison is upbeat and charming as we chat about his respect for the guitar-playing Robert Rodriguez, his aunt’s pleas for a romantic comedy and how the mistakes in his past have helped shaped his life today. You’ve been involved with the new El Rey series From Dusk Till Dawn. Tell me a bit about that. It’s always been one of my dreams to work with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. From Dusk Till Dawn was a movie in the late ‘90s with Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney, and now he’s turning it into a TV show because Rodriguez is launching his own network called El Rey. Can you tell me more about what it’s like to work with Robert Rodriguez? Working with him was seriously a dream. He’s a man amongst men. I looked at him and asked myself, “How do you have time to do all of this?” because he’d come to the set with his Spanish guitar in tow – I’m not even joking – and he’d set up a shot, tell the actors what they need to do, take the still photography, shoot the scene and then in between takes he’d play his guitar, figuring out the music for the show. He’s insanely competent. Camp X-Ray just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. How was your experience there? It was really well received. Camp X-Ray was just sold to IFC, so that’s pretty big news. At Sundance, we had standing ovation after standing ovation and people were in tears, so it was better than I’d even expected. I saw the film at the premiere for the first time, so I was shocked by how well it was received. We’re all still just riding that wave. What’s Camp X-Ray’s premise? It’s about a new member of the army who’s played by Kristin Stewart. She’s one of those girls who doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life, so she joins the military. They send her to Guantanamo Bay and her world is turned upside down. She befriends a detainee and it’s this weird relationship triangle between her, the detainee and myself. I play a corporal who basically runs Guantanamo Bay and who’s just desensitized to it all because I’ve been in that environment for so long. He thinks all the prisoners are guilty of 9/11 and they all deserve to rot there. When Amy (played by Stewart) comes in and makes friends with the detainee, she questions that thinking.
campus talk
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april 2014
Totally useless fact: It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.