“I feel like all of them were like big kids,” Steinfeld says, apparently correctly, of her leading men. “She would throw these Double Leaning Jowlers.” True Grit - Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon - NEW Region 2 DVD. But for the moment, she and Bridges are busy recalling their on-set games of Pass the Pigs, a version of the dice game Pigs. True Grit DVD Action & Adventure (2011) Jeff Bridges Quality Guaranteed. With her startlingly assured performance in True Grit, it’s unsurprising that Steinfeld was nominated for a Washington DC Area Film Critics Association award. Before going on location, she went to a shooting range, because firing a gun “was, like, one of the things I wanted to make sure I had a clue of what I was doing”. Steinfeld did her own stunts, save for toppling into that pit. TRUE GRIT 2010 DVD RGN2 BBFC 15 JEFF BRIDGES MATT DAMON HAILEE STEINFELD. In the course of the story, Mattie is almost strangled, shoots a man, and plunges into a pit occupied by rattlesnakes. True Grit DVD Action & Adventure (2011) Jeff Bridges Quality Guaranteed. “I had to learn how to shoot a gun and roll a cigarette,” says Steinfeld, who has long, shiny dark hair that in the movie is braided into two no-nonsense plaits. The role also called for horse-riding skills and other abilities needed to pull off a period Western. Out of thousands of girls, she was the only one, Ethan Coen says, with a natural facility for the film’s highly formalized language (no contractions) “from the get-go”. The Coens had casting agents scouring the country for 18 months before they found Steinfeld in Thousand Oaks, California, just 40 minutes from Hollywood. “I think it was more nerve-racking for me than it was for her.” He claims that he and Damon gave Steinfeld $5 each time they uttered “the F word” in her presence: “She made about a hundred thousand.” “She’s so precocious and amazing and present and just kind of went with it,” Brolin says. Also hunting the killer (played by Brolin) is a smug, muttonchopped Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Damon)-notably pronounced “la beef”.ĭespite being practically the only female in the testosterone- and Oscar-heavy cast, the then–13-year-old Steinfeld held her own. It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a decade since at-the-time newcomer Hailee Steinfeld launched her career thanks to her role in True Grit. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) to accompany her into Indian territory. The headstrong Mattie hires one-eyed bad-ass U.S. In the film-which the writing-directing Coens based on Charles Portis’s 1968 novel, rather than the 1969 movie starring John Wayne-her character, Mattie Ross, journeys through brutal terrain in an 1870s Arkansas winter to seek revenge on the man who killed her father. In fact, all of these “interesting” things happen in True Grit, the latest film from perpetually hip duo Joel and Ethan Coen, and Steinfeld’s first movie, like, ever.īefore True Grit (which opens Wednesday in Vancouver), Steinfeld had done only a few television roles, some short films, and a TV commercial for Kmart in which she enthusiastically extolled the virtues of “blingatude”.
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