Kristen Stewart & Garrett Hedlund

0:00Yeah. And I guess you guys missed it as well, right? Yeah. Cool. Well, thanks so much, guys, for doing this. I appreciate it. So you were just telling me you were fans of the book before. So when did you each read it for the first time? He was 18. You were all the way through. When did she reach? She was 14 or 15. I was a freshman. He was a senior. That's great. Yeah. Back then. I'm a fan of some. Did we read how much older than you? I mean, how much older are you than me? Could we read it at the same time? Say, I just turned 28. You're 22. No. OK, now run. Sorry, what happened to you? I broke it. I'm also a good guy. I hit it. That's fun. So anyway, let's play some of the movies. Anyway. Mary Lou. Dean, what drew you to these parts? What did you love about these characters?

0:45Well, first of all, I guess, Kerouac wasn't in terms of, I was just a fan of the book. It wasn't like drawing to the characters. I never thought, you know, me being here today involved with this film. I would have ever been in my path. I mean, I'm so thankful to be here in Toronto Film Festival's grave. I mean, Dean, he's wild. And you want to feel that. You want to make other people feel the way that he did. And you want to have those experiences. You want to be less cautious, conscious, conservative in your life and sort of just fly

1:33and breathe and yern. And that's what he did and what inspired so many people. And yeah, it's an honor. Are you like that in your life? Was it difficult to portray? I mean, you know, that was kind of the thing. Before, when I first met with Walter on this and read with him, it was always the thing that you're such a fan of the book. You know, a fan of the South part, you're a fan of this. I mean, you'd be fine just, you know, being an extra in the background. Jazz club dancing to all two actors are either there like, damn, they get played. I have a particular interview. I have a partner. For me, that's what was strange was you're like, man, I'm a fan of this. I'm a fan of this character. And now I got to put these words in my mouth and sort of live and breathe this and portray

2:21this and make people believe it. And that was the obstacle. Yeah. You sound like you were about to say something? I heard a breath. No. Oh, sure. I mean, do you want to talk? Well, no, I've heard that you said you like in yourself more to sell as a person. Yeah. So it must have been interesting to play that. Yeah, I am. We've been talking about it a bit today. I've never been the most extroverted person, not that I'm an introvert. It's just that I'm definitely, you know, I think when I first read the book, I went wow, okay, you need to do more of this. It was like I need to find people in my life that push me like this. I think playing very Lou was interesting for me because I find that the reason I like to

3:07do this is not because I like to transform myself or because I like to be different people. It's about finding things that are just buried and seeing if you could bring them out and learn from them and see if you want to like discard them or keep them. And I think that this was so a stretch for me of everything that I've dealt with up until now, pretty much has been more apparent to me, like roles that I've taken have just been so instantly I identify instantly with them. I identified instantly with the book, not with her necessarily, with her. It was like she was vivid and fun and crazy and wild and I would want to be her friend. But so it was interesting to play the part and find out who the real person was behind the character because you don't really know what's going on with her and her heart and remind all the time in the book and to know why she was the way she was was really interesting

3:56and really necessary to not just play a caricature of like a sexy fun girl who likes to do crazy stuff. You know what I mean? It was like so much more than that. We got to have you know family of the characters around like for neo-cacity that's, Demorio already was based off of Mando-cacity and John Cassidy's his son, Nagataang and learn a lot from him and sit down and have wonderful conversations and we actually even did a drive up the coast with the Hudson Hornet and parked in the beat meeting all the way. You know it's like the grand farewell after done filming and she got to spend so much time with... Lou Wenn's daughter which was really amazing.

4:43It suddenly personalizes everything and makes it, we would have a huge responsibility to the characters that Kerak wrote of course and to him and to everyone that loved them but suddenly knowing the human beings behind it, knowing the families and everything is just sort of gave you that extra drive and push but then also kind of put you at ease as well because you've got the sign off. It was like okay I'm with them. I mean it's all coming from the right place. I'm not telling someone else's story for them. They're helping me do it. Do you know what I mean? Well thanks so much guys I appreciate it. Thank you. I just got the wrap up sign. Yeah thank you. Thanks.