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Maybe Maguire is a control freak because he never had much control over things as a kid. His parents were 18 and 20 when they had him, and split up two years later. Dad was a cook; Mom was a secretary. Maguire grew up ping-ponging between them, moving from state to state. Often he was so nervous he threw up in the morning before school. Then everything changed. He was in junior high, and his mom wanted him to take a drama class. She bribed him with $100. After that, it was commercials--his first onscreen performance...
...test for Maguire. For one thing, he has to find out if people can look at him and not see Spidey. As Christopher Reeve found out, once you put on the tights, it can be hard to get them off. For another thing, Peter Parker was a high school kid. This is the first time we'll see Maguire as a man playing a man. "There probably won't be a lot more things I do where the character is, like, a virginal, innocent, sexually naive kind of guy," he acknowledges. "Only because being 28, it's just getting laughable...
...discovered by a broken-down cowboy (Chris Cooper) and a rich dilettante named Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who nurse him back to health. They need a rider who can handle him. Enter Maguire as Red Pollard, a bitter, washed-up jockey who was abandoned by his parents as a kid, then grew up too tall to make the big time. Along the way, Pollard lost the sight in one eye, and by the time Team Seabiscuit finds him he's boxing on the side (and losing) to make ends meet. Writer-director Gary Ross, who directed Maguire in Pleasantville, wrote...
...what a miracle they have on their hands. Talking about the scene, Maguire sounds almost mesmerized. "I think what plays there is somebody who's just kind of desperate and hungry and broken down, and Seabiscuit and my character together reawaken themselves. He feels like when he was a kid and he rode horses and he loved it, and it felt right to him, like what he was supposed to do. And Seabiscuit's galloping, and I think it's just, it's just like that kind of epiphanic release in one's life, where you're just like ahhhhhh...
...amount of information in each case is enormous," says Case, the assistant D.A. "You're looking not only at the crime itself, the evidence there, but, in addition, a person's entire past life is opened for scrutiny ... Maybe the guy was torturing cats when he was a kid." The death committee distills that material for Earle...