Why make Alpha Dog?
Justin Timberlake: For me, it was attractive to be involved with great actors, a great director, and great material. That’s what leads me to this film. How did you research this role? Did you know anyone like this? Justin Timberlake: I don’t know that I knew anyone like this. As an actor, it’s your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened. I actually went with Nick [Cassavetes, the director] to upstate California, to go to prison to visit the guy that my character was based off. Literally, when we signed up for the project, we all got a stack of files. It was thick. I mean literally like a novel of files of all the police reports and all the newspaper reports about what had happened. Nick was able to get a lot of information. We really just trusted Nick to portray the truth of what happened. We followed Nick’s lead. Did you meet anyone else associated with the crime or the events surrounding it? Justin Timberlake: This mo
