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Even in spite of Dillon’s decision to appear in the latest Lindsay Lohan debacle “Herbie,” he remains, for all intents and purposes, a good actor that can steal any scene he’s in. And Haggis, emerging from his wasteland...
With the new film “Crash,” in limited release on May 6, the two finally put their less-than-stellar pasts behind them, respectively offering some of their best work to date. Dillon’s smarmy, understated performance in “Crash,?...
Haggis says that he was able to cast so many high-quality actors in the low-budget indie film by “casting against type. You can get really terrific people if you ask them to stretch and do something different.”
The controversial nature of the film, which investigates racial tensions and politics in the fragmented L.A. metropolis, was never really a point of contention with Haggis either. “We didn’t tone down anything. If [co-writer] Bobby [Moresco] and I were in our right mind...
Haggis felt from the outset that “Crash” was not a major studio picture, not only due to the less-than-feel-good subject matter but also because of the presentation of the film’s action, which eschews many traditional rules of Hollywood narrative...