Grayson Russell

The only reason we went was because my dad had a tournament.

He wanted to go fish because my dad loved the bass fish at that point.

And me and mom were bored.

That was it.

And two months later I land the role.

Wow.

No idea what's going on because I couldn't read.

Like I hadn't started the second grade yet.

Dang.

Uh, and you know, my folks didn't know if it was going to be a real movie, what it was like Saturday night live was past my bedtime.

They didn't watch anchorman.

We had no idea what was going on, totally illiterate.

So we understood like from that point, like okay, this, whatever this is, is a whole lot bigger than us because there's no reason why

Grayson from Clanton, Alabama, population 9000, who should be a peach farmer when he grows up because that's what everybody does, has now been afforded this opportunity to be an actor.

Right.

Got.

saved doing that film, met Michael Clark Duncan, who's the big guy from The Green Mile.

He played the pit crew chief in it.

It's a NASCAR movie.

Okay.