Did it resonate with Ang?
JG: When he cast me, he didn’t know that Hair was happening. He didn’t know anything about it. He just cast me. I literally put myself on tape, and hours later got a call that they had fast-tracked the tape to Ang and he was interested. So it was this happy accident; Woodstock didn’t know about Hair, and Hair didn’t know about Woodstock. They just happened to overlap and all the research was good for both. The characters that I played were actually pretty different, but to feel like you were in the world and you were living that time was a real gift. Q: It was amazing to see how people were trying to re-embrace it and, I think, are still trying to re-embrace. I’m curious to see how Taking Woodstock is accepted. JG: I can’t wait. I think the thing that we have gotten away from, or at least that my generation has gotten away from that we’re ready to re-embrace, is the idea of being passionate about something. I feel like detachment and being an arm’s length away and not caring or whateve
