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LUKE WILSON (Officer Delinko):
“This wasn’t my first family film; I’d done My Dog Skip. That was in the same vein. I [remember] I had this thing when I saw a movie as a kid, I never sat there and went, ‘Oh there’s that actor.’ You just watched it with an open mind. I got a nice reaction on My Dog Skip, it was nice to do a movie with no swearing and no sex scenes; one that everyone can see. This seems like an old time movie.”
LOGAN LERMAN:
“I think the main message of this movie is that you can be any age and make a difference. That’s what it really teaches you.”
BRIE LARSON on the lack of technical gadgets in the movie:
“Cell phones and the internet weren’t needed at all. That’s not the message that we’re trying to get across. It would dumb it down actually.”
LERMAN:
“Not every kid in America has a cell phone and text messaging. This is really a timeless film. That’s why it was so great to be part of it. It’s an intelligent film. It doesn’t just entertain you.”
WILSON:
“I got a call one day saying that Jimmy Buffett was producing a movie from a Carl Hiaasen book, and right there it sounded interesting to me. They were both people that I was a fan of. So I went out and got the book that day and read it and really liked it a lot and then I got the script. I agreed to do it before I even read the script just based on the book.”
LERMAN on Jimmy Buffett who also wrote songs for the movie and appears in it:
“I knew who Jimmy Buffett was. I just wasn’t familiar with his music. Once I got the role and read the script, I got his CD and listened to Margaritaville and thought it was great.”
CODY LINLEY:
“I didn’t know too much about his music either and then I told my dad, ‘Hey, I’m doing a movie with Jimmy Buffett,’ and he’s like, ‘Are you serious?’”
LARSON:
“It’s nice that we don’t think of him as some iconic figure. He’s like our friend.”
WILSON:
“I’m very interested in the environment. I’m friends with that tennis player, Pete Sampras, and he claims that I’m a tree-hugger. But I didn’t know about these owls, I didn’t even know if they were real. I had to ask one of the artists, ‘Are these actually real? Are there owls that really live on the ground?’ Yep, there are. I thought Carl Hiassen had made it up. I thought owls only lived in trees.”
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