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Hedlund's karaoke audition and country training; Paltrow emailing Robert Downey Jr.; Hedlund and McGraw's Friday Night Lights history; Hedlund crying off-camera; Paltrow losing Kelly Taylor to Jennie Garth; Paltrow turning down The Ring; Paltrow learning guitar; Meester's mother's prison birth
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- Garrett Hedlund auditioned at a Koreatown karaoke bar singing Pearl Jam's "Better Man."
- The director said he took four months off, learned guitar, took voice lessons and went to Nashville early to work with producers.
- Paltrow emailed her Iron Man castmate Robert Downey Jr. to understand addiction and rehab, and he wrote back an amazing email; some would find that pretentious.
- Garrett Hedlund and Tim McGraw noted they had been in Friday Night Lights together.
- The director said that in the Dallas goodbye scene, shot on Gwyneth's side first with the camera on the back of Garrett's head, Garrett cried for her performance.
- Paltrow lost the Kelly Taylor role on 90210 to Jennie Garth.
- She would have been an amazing Kelly Taylor, though she probably would have left after about four seasons. — Bill Simmons
- She turned down The Ring in 2002; her filmography lacks a good horror movie about a house with something wrong with it.
- Paltrow learned guitar from scratch over several months, and Chris Martin told her she played better than U2's frontman, though her playing in the movie is not great. — Liz Kelly
- Leighton Meester's real mother gave birth to her as a prison inmate, and her character's mother is also in prison. — Liz Kelly