05 December 2014
Newsdesk
Garrett Hedlund hates seeing rubbish floating around the Hollywood Walk of Fame "like tumbleweed".
The 30-year-old actor was born in Minnesota and spent some of his teenage years in Arizona, before moving to Los Angeles aged 18 to pursue acting. He can vividly remember how he felt when he landed in the City of Angels, but is sad the emotions didn't stick around.
"When you first go to LA, it makes you wonder if you're dreaming for a second. You see the Hollywood sign, then the ocean and all the things you've only ever seen on TV," he told British magazine Marie Claire. "It's just sad when you start to see the tourist attractions for what they really are - at seven in the morning when nobody's on the Walk of Fame and there are just brown paper bags blowing around like tumbleweed."
Garrett has enjoyed many career highlights already, including starring in the upcoming movie Unbroken. It's directed by Angelina Jolie and is about Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who was imprisoned during World War II. As well as feeling a great affinity with Louis, the shoot gave Garrett the chance to catch up with Angelina's husband Brad Pitt.
"I hope the next ten years are filled with as much excitement as the last ten. It was great to see Brad Pitt on the set because I worked with him back when I was 18 [on Troy], and now I've just turned 30," he explained. "Every time I run in to him I get a kick out of how much time has passed and what we were all like back then. I'd just graduated from high school early, so by the time my classmates were on the last kick of their senior year, I was already in London drinking pints with all the older actors."
Although Garrett has been in the moviemaking business for over a decade, he likes to keep his personal life out of the limelight. It's not because he's hugely precious, rather he worries it might impact his performance if people know too much about him.
"Especially with this profession - if everyone knows your hobbies and you jump in a role [requiring that], people are going to know that you do that six or seven days a week. It's not going to seem like such a leap," he said.
