Why is your character Tick Tock sceptical about Seabiscuits abilities as a racehorse?
Seabiscuit had an eating disorder. He’s one of the only racehorses in history that they had to put on a diet! He ate twice as much as any other horse. He was almost narcoleptic. Other racehorses were so wild they would kick their stalls to death. Seabiscuit would roll over on his side and sleep the whole day long. They shipped the horses by train in those days and they had to give drugs to most of them to keep them calm. Seabiscuit would sleep the whole way! He was the most unlikely racehorse. I mean, some really smart people said: “He’s lame. Put him down.” So why do you like his story so much? I just love stories about people or racehorses where all they needed was a chance, for someone to say: “OK. I’ll give you a shot.” What did you enjoy about playing Tick Tock? I’m used as the Greek chorus. It’s very cagey the way our writer and director Gary Ross used me because, as I change and adopt the horse and grow to love the horse, so does America. So my character allowed Gary to move the
