SXSW Film opened with the world premiere of “Everybody Wants Some” on Friday night, complete with mud wrestling, booze and disco. That was just onscreen at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, but the antics inside the auditorium also got a little wild.
The audience was laughing and hooting throughout the Richard Linklater comedy, centered around a 1980 college baseball team, often over sips of beer (served at the laidback concession stand).
Festival director Janet Pierson introduced the film, reminding the crowd of the director’s Texas roots. Linklater set the evening’s screwball tone by pretending that the president (who had given a SXSW keynote speech earlier on Friday afternoon) had planned on attending. Then, on a projector screen, he showed a handwritten note that was supposedly from Obama, with scribbling in red ink: “I had a blast in college in 1980! Rock on – Barry.”
At the film’s after-party at the swanky South Congress Hotel, Linklater tried to keep up the charade. “It was real,” he told Variety, before admitting the truth. “It was a joke,” he finally said, adding that he had at first wondered if the president would really attend, before realizing heavy security precautions would complicate the screening.
Linklater has always shown a talent for casting young up-and-coming actors — from Matthew McConaughey in “Dazed and Confused” to his longtime collaborator Ethan Hawke—and “Everybody Wants Some” follows that tradition. The consensus in Austin was that many of the actors in the ensemble, including the film’s lead heartthrob Blake Jenner, could soon become household names.
The audience was laughing and hooting throughout the Richard Linklater comedy, centered around a 1980 college baseball team, often over sips of beer (served at the laidback concession stand).
Festival director Janet Pierson introduced the film, reminding the crowd of the director’s Texas roots. Linklater set the evening’s screwball tone by pretending that the president (who had given a SXSW keynote speech earlier on Friday afternoon) had planned on attending. Then, on a projector screen, he showed a handwritten note that was supposedly from Obama, with scribbling in red ink: “I had a blast in college in 1980! Rock on – Barry.”
At the film’s after-party at the swanky South Congress Hotel, Linklater tried to keep up the charade. “It was real,” he told Variety, before admitting the truth. “It was a joke,” he finally said, adding that he had at first wondered if the president would really attend, before realizing heavy security precautions would complicate the screening.
Linklater has always shown a talent for casting young up-and-coming actors — from Matthew McConaughey in “Dazed and Confused” to his longtime collaborator Ethan Hawke—and “Everybody Wants Some” follows that tradition. The consensus in Austin was that many of the actors in the ensemble, including the film’s lead heartthrob Blake Jenner, could soon become household names.
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