What did you pay attention to most in terms of portraying Chris McCandless?
EMILE HIRSCH: I just really wanted to portray Chris in an authentic way that was honest and did not try to glamorize him and didn’t try to demonize him. I wanted it to be what me and Sean thought Chris was really like – someone who had a lot of flaws, had a lot of problems, but also had a lot of courage and a really wonderful soul that people responded to. The people he met on the road really did like him and he was really a likeable guy who cared about people, but at the same time you have the contradictions inside himself of he’s not talking to his sister who he probably loved more than anybody and his parents. So he was a guy who was probably very torn and had a lot of anger in him but also was looking for something different. MoviesOnline: Did you go into the actual bus? EMILE HIRSCH: I did. I did. I took a snowmobile ride up to the bus before we started shooting and I’d never been on a snowmobile before. I went up with a really experienced Alaskan guy named BJ and it was about a 9
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