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HFPA in Conversation: Alden Ehrenreich Explores a Brave New World

Brave New World,  based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. Alden Ehrenreich plays John the Savage in a society where drugs and free love are normal.  “I actually never read the book until I got the job. I’d read a few snippets of other work by Huxley, some essays, and some of the ‘Doors of Perception’, but I’d never read’ Brave New World’, even though I have it on my bookshelf. But it is unbelievable what his sense of insight into what the future might be”, Ehrenreich told HFPA journalist Scott Orlin.

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Steven Spielberg recommended him to DreamWorks; how was his experience on the TV show SupernaturalFrancis Ford Coppola gave him; why he feels embarrassed about his audition for Spider-Man; how he got the leading role in Beautiful CreaturesBlue JasmineWarren Beatty’s dinner parties; why he chose to play Han Solo and how was that experience; why he wants to direct and what’s his short film going to be about; and how he learned to bake banana bread.